witch hunts

Our “friends” on the far, reactionary “right” would like YOU to believe a number of fantastic fairy tales – that unscrupulous Americans are seeking to sabotage America by use of a large number of “witch hunts.” Some are these:

1) the plot to get Senator Joe McCarthy. While “Tail gunner” Joe was conducting his hunt for “communists” under American beds, especially in the State Department, certain “unAmerican” people began persecuting our Joe. He was accused of sloppy math , having stated 57, 81, 205 “Communists” were sabotaging America’s heroic struggle against Stalin and assorted Kremlin villains.

2) the plot to undermine the House UnAmerican Activities Committee. “Patriotic” Congressmen were themselves accused of unAmerican activities because their “investigations” put the heat on a number of “suspicious” people who either had been or were suspected of being members of the Communist Party. Instead of being celebrated as the true heroes they were, HUAC members were denigrated and vilified.

3) the plot to get the automobile companies. A consumer advocate zealot published evidence American car manufacturers had knowingly produced cars “unsafe at an speed..” People got upset because the car manufacturers did “adversary intelligence” by hiring detectives to follow and investigate the consumer advocate himself.

4) the plot to get Richard Nixon. The center-left hated Nixon. They finally got him for covering up 1972 election “adversary intelligence” operations at the Democratic Party headquarters. “Watergate” is thus a monument to the left’s 25 year campaign to get Richard Nixon, not a monument of patriotic truth.

5) the plot against the pesticide industry. They were accused of unfairly attacking Rachel Carson for her book, “Silent Spring,” about pesticides accumulating in the food chain and damaging the environment, for calling her a “hysterical’ female. Criticism of pesticides invokes bees and butterflies being endangered.

6) the plot against Ronald Reagan. The center-left disliked Ronald Reagan. They finally almost got him in the trumped up “Iran-Contra” hoax. The Reagan administration was accused of unConstitutional activity while they defended America from our enemies in Latin America and the Middle East!!! Impeachment of Reagan was even discussed.

7) the plot against the tobacco industry. Since tobacco kills its customers, it represents an easy target. Tobacco executives were forced to testify before Congress. People want to smoke, why not let them exercise this freedom? This is an obvious “personal responsibility” issue – and an obvious big government nanny example.

8) the plot against “pro-life” people. The center-left despises the “Pro-life” movement, saying this is an obvious First Amendment vilation by imposing their religious views on all Americans. Wrong!!! This is a “free speech” issue!!! “Pro-lifers” have a right to present their case for defenseless babies before the public and demand government protect the innocent babies from people who want to murder them.

9) the plot against President George W. Bush. The center-left despises Bush. They said he was illegally placed in office. Wrong!!! The Supreme Court approved his election!!! Center-left people criticized Bush”s invasion of Iraq. Some compared it to Hitler’s 1939 invasion of Poland. They criticized his tax cuts as unfairly favoring the top 1% and his “faith-based” policies as First Amendment violations. If he was so bad, why did he get re-elected?

10) the plot against gun manufacturers. They are selling a legal product!!! People have a “Second Amendment right” to have guns. Thousands of respectable, honest, good people aren’t committing crimes – why punish them?

11) the plot against conservative speech. The center-left insists conservative speech is a threat to American democracy, saying it is anti-American in its content: inciting violence, hatreds, and many prejudices; and also – fomenting many obviously false “alternative facts.” Conservatives have a First Amendment right to speak their views.

12) the plot to steal the 2020 election. The 2020 presidential election was stolen from Donald Trump – by Democrats, libs, Antifa, and others who hate America.

13) the plots against Donald Trump. the center-left hates Donald Trump. Trump is being persecuted for his “perfect phone calls” to authorities in Georgia and earlier, Ukraine. The center-left falsely insists he is guilty of numerous crimes. This is a weak case, a hoax, an obvious political persecution, obviously without merit.

l4) the plot against the fossil fuel industry. For 300 years, fossil fuels have powered “the industrial revolution” which modernized civilization. Misguided center-left people want to end all this progress because, THEY say, it is harming the earth. this evidence is in dispute – so why follow it?

Notice all these targets of witch hunts are on the conservative side. this therefore must confirm what the Fox News – talk radio echo chamber has said for years: the center-left is “out to get” the “true Americans” listening to Fox and talk radio. What else could explain all this?
The only presidents on the list are ALL Republicans What more do we need to know? Two other victims were attempting to expose Communists sabotaging America from within. What more do wee need to know?


Are the l4 cases above true witch hunts? Dictionary definition of witch hunt: “an intensive effort to discover and expose disloyalty, subversion, dishonesty, or the like, usually based on slight, doubtful, or irrelevant evidence.”

THINK. on the last part of the definition: “..usually based on slight, doubtful, or irrelevant evidence.”
WHO. REALLY. has done this since 1945? WHO is floating rumors and conspiracy theories???
WHO said they’d supplied “alternative facts”? WHO has pushed DOCUMENTED lies on almost everything?

NOW – the REAL facts on these supposed “plots”:

1) The effort to rid America of Senator Joe McCarthy and “McCarthyism” was based upon several years of his own, well-documented, virtually 100%, use of lies and false “evidence.” It began, documented, as a gimmick to get elected; was so successful in early Cold War America he kept doing it. He was undone by baseless attacks on the U.S. Army. The word “McCarthyism” is now used as a term of unAmerican behavior, of base and deceitful behavior.

2) The House UnAmerican Activities Committee was itself, by dictionary definition, a witch hunt. They used government power in the manner of the Inquisition. They made years of wild accusations against innocent people, ruined thousands of careers and lives, got people to turn on innocents to save their own skins, created an unAmerican atmosphere of fear and paranoia.

3) The failures of American car makers were documented, often obvious; emphasized “style” over technical quality. And – some American made cars were in fact “unsafe at any speed.” So bad were American cars that Honda, Toyota, other foreign cars became best-sellers, forcing American manufacturers to change.

4) Among the MOUNTAIN of evidence against Nixon and his cronies were tape recordings and confessions. “Follow the money” led to more DOCUMENTATION of efforts to manipulate the 1972 election. All so damning that Republican Congressmen told Nixon he had to go. He resigned before he could be impeached. “Watergate” is now used as a term for scandal.

5) Much international evidence was accumulated against DDT and other pesticides. The world is now worried about whether enough pollinators will survive to help produce the food we all eat. Rachel Carson has been overwhelmingly proven correct. This hasn’t stopped a new crop of Internet assassins from comparing her to Hitler as a mass murderer – in order to discredit her success, thereby aid all other industries under investigation.

6) President Ronald Reagan and his administration broke federal laws. there was enough evidence produced – including confessions by some of the perps – that serious legal minds said Reagan might have been impeached on “Ran-Contra”. ALONE. Reagan was forced to make a broadcast “apology” to the American public. Some of his cronies went to jail. An advisor told him he should consider contacting a criminal lawyer.

7) The infamous “tobacco defense” is now standard American industry playbook: muddy the waters and confuse people to create doubt [which various industries have been caught admitting they do!!!]. Tobacco itself must continually create new, young, customers because smoking kills people – which the tobacco execs publicly denied – so they must get people addicted, while denying this too.

8). “Pro-lifers” seek to impose THEIR. religious beliefs on America. This, by Constitutional plain English and 200 years of Constitutional law is unConstitutional. PERIOD. Separation of church and state is THE oldest American legal tradition. Religious oppression was one of the Founding Fathers 4 main fears in 1787. Study Roger Williams and his royal charter for Rhode Island; the 1657 Flushing Remonstrance; petitions by Virginia evangelicals; l776-1800 state constitutions [8 banned an active minister from their gov’t]; 1879 “Reynolds” Supreme Court opinion; and much more.
A “democratic” nation is going to. FORCE. a woman to carry to birth, even if the child cannot survive? This is what the Nazis said: you “owe” the state to carry children to birth.

9). By court decisions and prison sentences alone – G.W. Bush is one of America’s most criminal presidents. Add to this the massive damage done to American society: tax cuts for the rich, “faith-based” work taxpayers are force to finance, the 2008 Crash. His war on Iraq IS similar to Hitler’s 1939 attack on Poland – totally unjustified. Numerous documentation later revealed the mountain of lies told – not to mention massive incompetence and corruption in the war and afterward.

10) 50 years ago thr current death rate, mass shootings rate, and fear of gun violence did NOT exist in America. America is THE most unsafe advance nation by FAR. The Second Amendment does NOT cover civilians who are not part of a “well-regulated Militia” having the weapons they do – this would be the National Guard. In the old “Wild West” drunken cowboys were forced to surrender their guns before entering a town – the townspeople were tired of them shooting up their city. Now the “cowboys” ARE shooting up our towns – unConstitutionally.

11). By much DOCUMENTATION, what is said to be “conservative speech” is, in reality, antidemocratic and reactionary speech that not only involves much. LYING, but also incites violence and hatreds. A democracy runs on trust, tolerance, and truth – qualities the right-wing “echo chamber” violates – because it is THEIR BUSINESS MODEL {causing outrage}. DOCUMENTATION is found in right-wing media transcripts. A major scandal involved Fox “news” – not only saying one thing publicly over the air and the opposite behind scenes; but also, a major on-air personality was forced out because of his actions. Others have successfully been sued for defamation.

120 The “stolen” 2020 presidential election is Trump”s con job masterpiece. He lost the popular vote by 7 million votes!!! He lost in ALL the states he claims he won.. High-ranking members of his own administration said he lost.. Republicans in many states said he lost their state. He lost 60 court cases. Numerous Republican-led recounts proved he lost that election. The only bigger fraud is climate crisis denial.

13) Donald Trump is a CANCER. on America; a lying, cheating. demagogue. He is the anti-George Washington; THE person the Founding Fathers most feared. In Georgia he is #P01135809 because of numerous criminal acts by he and his cronies [“the perfect phone call”]. Federal charges on a wide range of felonious activity exist in multiple courts. His tax cuts go to billionaires – are 25% of the federal debt. He has filled federal courts with numerous dubious “judges.” The damage he has already inflicted on America so severe it worries countries around the world. He has profaned the office once held by Washington, Lincoln, FDR, and others.

14). Climate change denial is. THE. SINGLE. WORST. CRIME IN WORLD. HISTORY. For. GREED, the fossil fuel industry has sabotaged THE consensus. TRUTH {all outside their toadies]: humans are. DESTROYING. how the earth runs. We either stop burning fossil fuels or leave our children and grandchildren an earth that is uninhabitable. All-time heat records set almost every succeeding year; fires burning on several continents; “storms of the century” happening almost every year. Climate change migrants overwhelming other nations. Plants and animals moving away from the equator….. an on and on….

The far, reactionary “right” has polluted discussion with their LIES for 50 years, in ever increasing volumes . They. HAVE TO. LIE. – because. the factual truth is their enemy. “Witch hunts” are only the most sensational examples.

America once approached “perfection”. in 1947-73. That mixed economy, that ever increasingly democratic society. That society approaching a more equitable distribution of America’s wealth – was. STOLEN AWAY. by DOCUMENTED deliberate planning and execution – by the very rich and their corporations.

That ANYA of these “witch hunts” could be taken seriously is proof of how badly , deliberately, misinformed. the American people are – have been artfully led down a number of rabbit holes.

Want proof? Look seriously at ALL. the “solutions” offered by the “right” since 1970. How many of them made life better for all average Americans – vs – how many made life worse?
look at “deregulation” [ Wall Street, Big Pharma, energy, trucking, etc. – 2008 Crash!!!}; look at the high cost of “health care” [insurance execs get more than doctors!]; look at WHO got the major benefits of Reagan, Bush II, Trump tax cuts; look at job security; look at income inequality; look at WHO. is trying to cut or privatize Social Security and Medicare; look at. WHO. appointed religious zealots to the Supreme Court; look at WHO. has tried to change the rules on almost everything that once made America “democratic”.

Keep electing Republicans and you’ll get more of this. ,