geoff wrote:
On 1/09/2020 2:03 pm, Les Cargill wrote:
Trevor wrote:
On 31/08/2020 3:35 am, Les Cargill wrote:
The thing that makes it worse is that there really were "reds under
(some) bed(s)." It wasn't as bad in the US as in Britain, where the
Bloomsbury Group contained at least one asset of the KGB.
HUAC was a deeply anti-Semitic thing and as hapless an effort that's
been attempted.
Such a shame they never worried about the Fascists under the beds
like they did the Communists.
Fascists weren't on record as having as goal unhorsing the American
government. I'd also say there never was a serious American Fascist
movement; there was a Communist one. Even American nationalism worked
very differently from European nationalism. Of course there were
nominally roght wing things, but they were quite different - someone
could have fought Nazis and been say, a Bircher without skipping a beat.
True, but what is pretty 'normal' outlook on life in the USA is
considered to have many right-wing aspects by much of the world.
That is a lot about miscommunication. I've worked with hundreds of
Europeans and it just never was a problem. Er, I was able to refine
some of the terms they'd heard and they were less stressed about it,
anyway.
The USAF and RAF ( among others )just razed a lot of of Yurp and
when they rebuilt, it was different.
And it
seems anything even vaguely approaching what much of the world would
consider as 'middle-of-the-road' (and that is approaching from the
right-hand side !) gets described as 'far-left' or communist by the
currently most vociferous.
If such labels have any many any more ...
They haven't much many at all
A whacking great lot of what is
called "conservative" in the US just isn't. Some of it is lunacy.
Mostly this is about "empty buckets make the most noise".
geoff
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Les Cargill