I’ve been reading up on the red scare since admittedly, I don’t know much about it and what I do know about it was taught from film. I realized there are a lot of parallels to what is happening today, some realized and some not.

As some one that believes in the freedoms that the constitution and its amendments guarantee, it’s deeply disturbing to read about the US in the 1940-1970s. In many ways, it seems to me like this was a coup but then somehow it just kinda fizzled out? I mean I guess it shaped modern politics and its recent enough that some politicians remember it.

Like I have a list of breakpoints which will tell me to flee the US if they happen. I got them mostly from reading about hitlers rise to power (which is also very similar to the present day). However most of them were broken during the red scare.

So I’m wondering, was the red scare a coup? What’s really the differences between how the Constitution was disregarded then and how it is attempting to be now?

  • psyklax@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    5 months ago

    For some great information on this subject, check out Rachel Maddow’s Ultra.

    Particularly this part:

    By that time, McCormick’s group, For America, had been promoting a wild election gambit, to qualify their own electors in multiple states to try to insert chaos into the count of the Electoral College.

    Looks real familiar, doesn’t it? They tried to get Joseph McCarthy elected with an “alternate slate of electors”

    Also featured, actual nazis behind McCarthy.