re: Does anyone remember the 1950s or 60s?

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To be a self-identified Communist then was to also be open to be either an active or passive agent of Soviet Communism. And anti-American.

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Thought policing is throughly anti-American. And anti-American activities of the government are way worse than those Anti-American activities, that weren't related to actual espionage.

I find it terrifying that people think it's justifiable to target citizens because of their ideological believes, whether they are terrible or not.