The thing to remember is that this imagery promoted a social norm of stability, sufficiency, and predictability: it was what everyone who'd lived through the horrors of WWI, the Depression, WWII and the Cold War fantasized about having. It was what everyone should want. And, up until the '60s, the cultural and media venues of the US promoted this vision since they'd lived through those horrors, too. But, because our government hadn't heeded the advice of George S. Patton, we'd defeated one collectivist, totalitarian threat--fascism--only to completely overlook the one remaining. And that was because many Americans had been propagandized into believing that Uncle Joe was our friend and ally.
The Red Scare wasn't a hoax. Joseph McCarthy wasn't a power-hungry kook. The Soviet Union wasn't just an innocent bystander with a benign ideology. Everyone conveniently forgets several facts that we, in our complacency, overlooked at the time and which have led to our nightmare today. First, Patton wanted to destroy the Soviet Union at the end of the war, while we were still mobilized and while the USSR was low on resources. Second, the US had a monopoly on nuclear tech. Third, FDR had been a big fan of fascism in the early '30s and continued to have an unseemly crush on hard-leftism that made him susceptible to Stalin's seductions. And fourth, our own State Department was an epicenter for pro-soviet activism. Much of what came to pass in the post-war world was due to a vicious combination of all the foregoing factors.
Stalin bamboozled the besmitten old fool FDR into allowing him 'buffer states' in which he'd guarantee 'free' elections; supposedly 'exhausted' Red Army troops moved fast enough to alarm Patton about their intentions; our sole possession of the bomb drove the paranoiac Stalin to begin engineering either his parity or our downfall; and finally, our own State Department helped the enemy in this effort. My whole life, the left has pushed the fictional narrative that Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were hapless, innocent martyrs of a murderous and despotic US government. But I'm glad they fried. They and their leftist friends, handlers and enablers set in motion the ruination of everything that pepe, above, is struggling to protect.
The thing to remember is that this imagery promoted a social norm of stability, sufficiency, and predictability: it was what everyone who'd lived through the horrors of WWI, the Depression, WWII and the Cold War fantasized about having. It was what everyone should want. And, up until the '60s, the cultural and media venues of the US promoted this vision since they'd lived through those horrors, too. But, because our government hadn't heeded the advice of George S. Patton, we'd defeated one collectivist, totalitarian threat--fascism--only to completely overlook the one remaining. And that was because many Americans had been propagandized into believing that Uncle Joe was our friend and ally.
The Red Scare wasn't a hoax. Joseph McCarthy wasn't a power-hungry kook. The Soviet Union wasn't just an innocent bystander with a benign ideology. Everyone conveniently forgets several facts that we, in our complacency, overlooked at the time and which have led to our nightmare today. First, Patton wanted to destroy the Soviet Union at the end of the war, while we were still mobilized and while the USSR was low on resources. Second, the US had a monopoly on nuclear tech. Third, FDR had been a big fan of fascism in the early '30s and continued to have an unseemly crush on hard-leftism that made him susceptible to Stalin's seductions. And fourth, our own State Department was an epicenter for pro-soviet activism. Much of what came to pass in the post-war world was due to a vicious combination of all the foregoing factors.
Stalin bamboozled the besmitten old fool FDR into allowing him 'buffer states' in which he'd guarantee 'free' elections; supposedly 'exhausted' Red Army troops moved fast enough to alarm Patton about their intentions; our sole possession of the bomb drove the paranoiac Stalin to begin engineering either his parity or our downfall; and finally, our own State Department helped the enemy in this effort. My whole life, the left has pushed the fictional narrative that Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were hapless, innocent martyrs of a murderous and despotic US government. But I'm glad they fried. They and their leftist friends, handlers and enablers set in motion the ruination of everything that pepe, above, is struggling to protect.
O7
Thanks for the info
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bX3EZCVj2XA
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