The fear of Communism has long lived in the hearts of Americans, proud of their democratic domain. This fear came about after World War One, and came to be known as the Red Scare. Right wing government officials used this paranoia in order to prosecute thousands of left wing activists. This ordeal reemerged after World … Read more
Between the early 1940s and the late 1950s, the United States of America was threatened by the rapid growth of communism in the USSR. Many Americans came to believe that Communist supporters had infiltrated the American borders and were beginning to take over. Among those believers was the Senator of Wisconsin, Joseph McCarthy. McCarthy gave … Read more
“Increasingly fed by a moral and political hysteria, warlike values produce and endorse shared fears as the primary register of social relations. ” – Henry Giroux Where man has emotion that, along with conspiracies, that usually formulates within a collective population and has the potential to become mass panic, that in time becomes hysteria. With … Read more