On Taking The High Ground

The more I research into the matter of our political history in this country - admittedly mostly, but not exclusively, from the Right side of the story - the more I marvel at how clever and skillful the Left has been in subverting our institutions - of education, entertainment, the media, the government - the works.

Take the term, and notion, of 'McCarthyism’.  It has come to mean - as Webster’s Dictionary defines it - “the use of indiscriminate, often unfounded, accusations, sensationalism, inquisitional investigative methods, etc., as in the suppression of political opponents portrayed as subversive,” and by extension, ‘wild accusations…character assassination…’.  But Sen. Joe McCarthy was right, in his uncovering of evidence for and the extent of communist infiltration into our federal government bureaucracies in and by his time, circa the early 1950s.(1)  

The claim, of ‘wild accusations,’ stemmed from the fact that at one point, in 1950, Sen. McCarthy waved a sheaf of papers during a speech to a county Republican group and said that it was a list of people in the State Department who were “either card-carrying Communists or certainly loyal to the Communist Party”.  The number (either 205 or 57)(2) became a red-herring point of contention.  Much as in our day with the ‘Russian Collusion’ meme as a way for the Marxist and NWO crowd to deflect attention away from the results of the leaking of the DNC emails to Wikileaks implicating the Clinton campaign and the DNC itself in a blatant stealing of the Democrat Party primaries from Bernie Sanders.  ‘Look - look here.  Not over there’…  

A personal disclaimer.  I, like most Americans, not tuned into the depth of the communist subversion in this country at the time, imbibed the McCarthy Bad Kool-aid to the point of writing a letter to the Editor of our local evening newspaper on the general subject, and having it printed.  This was while I was in high school, and a woman had written a letter printed in that column a day or so before complaining about her Church group not being able to rent a school facility when they needed it for a major event, because some high school fraternity had beaten them to it, for some sort of event that they were sponsoring.  She looked down her nose at high school fraternities in her letter - as I took it -  and I, as a member of a high school fraternity, took umbrage, and wrote back, in part:(3)   

“Guilt by association is a dangerous trick, that can cause unjust and devastating criticism of something worthwhile…” 

Forgive the overwrought form, excessive use of the language.  (I was just using some of the new words in my growing vocabulary.)  My intention was sincere.  As is that of many a person in this day and age who uses the term ‘McCarthyism’ without understanding that it was a con job foisted onto the American people, coined - and used at the time in the Communist Party’s newspaper The Daily Worker - as a way to deflect criticism of them, and to attempt to smear those who would dare to call them out of the shadows.

Which brings to mind another expression; to wit:

‘None dare call it treason.’  As Sir John Harrington explained: ‘Treason doth never prosper.  What’s the reason?  For if it prosper, none dare call it Treason.’

Well said, Lord John.

And done, Sen. Joe McCarthy.


P.S. Is there anything wrong in principle with a communitarian form of government?  No.  It all depends on who is in charge of the system.
     The same with getting rid of a fiat and interest-bearing money system, and going to a cashless society.  And other forms of high technology.  Nothing wrong with it.  Per se.
     More to come on that aspect.  Of
     taking the high ground. 

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footnotes:

(1) Another take on the definition; this, from the pages of The New American magazine issue of May 22, 2017, in an article entitled ‘McCarthyism” — A Term That Libels a Dead Patriot’:

   “In a 1987 article for The New American, James Drummey offered his definition of McCarthyism: ‘McCarthyism was a serious attempt to remove from positions of influence [in the government and military] the advocates of communism…”  He went on: “Communist conspirators and their friends do not fear those who denounce communism in general terms; they do greatly fear those who would expose their conspiratorial activities.  That is why they hated and fought Joe McCathy more than any other public figure in this century.” 

    Whose claims, not so incidentally, built on the evidence from Whittaker Chambers that a key member of the State Department, Alger Hiss, was a Soviet spy, and on the proven allegations of espionage - the stealing of atomic bomb secrets - that resulted in the electric chair for Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.  

   And to note: Sen. McCarthy had nothing to do with the House Un-American Activities Committee hearings on such as communist infiltration into Hollywood.  He was a senator.  Who was fed his info by members of the FBI.  Who were loyal in those days.

   But to continue.

(2) It later came out that the confusion arose from the fact that he gave copies of his speech to a reporter, but in fact spoke only of the lower number, which was of those who had been firmly identified as members of the Communist Party, as opposed just to the number who failed the security screen check.  

(3) I remember the words to this day.  It was the beginning of a lifelong career in writing letters to the editors of various publications along My Way in life.