^ Thanks, Woody.
I was thinking about it later and my refrain about "control the language and you control the issue." I realized that if a person is still afraid to call a "progressive" a communist, there's much fighting still to be done.
And remember there's a difference between strategic awareness and clinical paranoia, so don't start throwing that "paranoia" word around like an idiot.
Senator Joe McCarthy had a lot going for him on this issue, it's too bad he went too far ("Have you no shame?") and the media crucified him to the point of getting him censured.
I rather think the "fellow travelers" in the Senate should have been censured for their tactical blindness but that's an <ahem> "extreme" viewpoint.
Terry said that. But I lived through the so-called "McCarthy Era."
Terry, 230RN