Zombie McCarthyism is trashing American values

© 2017 Peter Free

 

16 November 2017

 

 

A land of easily manipulated dweebs

 

John Wight addressed the issue of American-applauded censorship this way:

 

 

[W]hen the US Congress passes a bill to force RT America to register as a ‘foreign agent’ [see here] then we are talking war being waged not against Russian media per say, but the thousands of US citizens who work for Russian media and their right to ply their trade in the land of the free.

 

When it comes to foreign agents, isn’t it telling that neither the pro-Israel lobby group (AIPAC), nor its pro-Saudi counterpart (SAPRAC), are considered such, despite their undeniably and inarguably malign influence on US foreign policy.

 

There is nothing that RT or Sputnik International does that other state-funded broadcasters – the BBC, Voice of America, and France24 et al. – are not doing when it comes to their operations overseas.

 

All state-funded media engage in cultural outreach, and each proffers an analysis via the prism of their own cultural, ideological and national worldview.

 

The entire thing is a sham – a malicious and ideologically driven attempt to police the portals of news dissemination and analysis to the point where rigid acceptance and obeisance to the . . . Washington Consensus . . . is total.

 

© 2017 John Wight, McCarthyism Redux: Attacks on the Russian Media, CounterPunch (16 November 2017) (excerpts)

 

 

The moral? — "Then they came for me"

 

Recall Martin Niemöller's once famous Holocaust lines:

 

 

First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out —

Because I was not a Socialist.

 

Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out —

Because I was not a Trade Unionist.

 

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out —

Because I was not a Jew.

 

Then they came for me — and there was no one left to speak for me.

 

Martin Niemöller, "First they came for the socialists . . .”, Holocaust Encyclopedia (11 May 2012) (reformatted)

 

 

That's the problem with our culture's dementia-like fondness for not knowing or remembering anything.

 

We seem to be incapable of learning from history — even our comparatively recent own, which contains that malignant idiot, Joseph McCarthy.

 

Despair may be the only rational response. One can only do so much with a majority population of easily propagandized airheads.

 

Why this Zombie McCarthyism might matter, even to airheads, I addressed here.