As if, at any moment, the lights would blur and go cold, and I’d open my eyes to see a sorrowful little civil servant saying no, there’s been a mistake –did you really think something good might happen in this world? And that moment did come; it just took another two years. T...
The US became involved in Vietnam over the fear of spreading communism. In 1954, the Vietnamese, successfully, defeated their colonial master,... Learn more about this topic: Vietnam War | Causes, Effects & Summary from Chapter 9/ Lesson 8 ...
Lee Hockstader
I was raised with a lot of messaging of the “old America”, where self-reliance was prized, and everyone was constantly encouraged to take the wheel of his own life and “pull himself up by his bootstraps.” I believed this, and did this, to some extent… but I also did not. As...
The biggest myth in American culture today is that socialism and communism in their most evil forms, is not yet found in America, and to keep it that way is to: stop electing liberals/democrats according to the Right, or elect politicians who do not bow down to ...
With fascism defeated, America's communist friends had turned into foes. The expansion of communism and America's obsession with preventing it would be the justification for war in Korea—a war to which a formal end has yet to be declared....
Anthony Kennedy was the 5th vote to uphold Roe, although he did overturn partial birth abortion. The 5 Catholics upheld the 2nd Amendment last year, as well as freedom on speech (kept a cross in a national cemetery), and are the only thing standing between us and pure Communism. When ...
But why does this keep happening? How did Soros become a perpetual target of political opponents and conspiracy theorists, and what is his true role in America's politics? Who is George Soros? Soros is among the 100 richest people in the world, with an estimated net worth of more...
“Just Say No”: all public service announcements produced by the Ad Council. During the Cold War, the Ad Council turned to blatant U.S. propaganda, urging Americans to take an active role in promoting U.S. industry in the fight against communism. At the same time, the modern ...
Marx did not leave a detailed blueprint of how a communist society would be organized, but he did sketch its basic purposes, principles, policies, and institutions. The movementtocommunism, Marx thought, would develop in two stages. The first stage is the socialist phase, which is characterized...