McCarthy was right, and my life proves it.

[wendell dertah]

On the day I born, June 9th, 1954, Senator Joseph McCarthy was asked the famous question; “Have you no sense of decency sir?”.

Some members of the media who saw an opening, pounced on the opportunity, and never looked back. This would become the beginning of the end of the anti-communist mood in America. It would be the birth of terms like McCarthyism, Redbaiting, and Blacklisting.

The heirs of this movement are much more numerous today than in 1954, and the true journalists have been replaced by mere actors, playing the part of journalists.

We have gone from a nation where politicians investigated actors for being communists, to a nation where actors investigate politicians - for not being communists enough.

The sicken reality, is that what began as the strongest, freest county in the world, has become one that is choked with taxes and regulations. Businesses are crumbling, and the only solution offered is that they be nationalised.

In the America I was born to, the Constitution was honored, rather than seen as an obstacle. It was the foundation of government, and not derided as a list of talking points for fanatics.

We have gone from revering men like Lincoln and Washington, to having a White House filled by people that revere Mao, Che, and Marx.

In 1954 the words “Under God” were added to the Pledge of Allegiance, and children recited it daily in schools. Today’s children are only guaranteed the right to speak the name of God, when they are taking it in vain.

In the year I was born, movies were being made about American and American Ideals. In this year of “tolerance”, movies are made about the evil of America.

In 1954, the leading men looked each other in the eye and shook hands. In our year of “Hope and Change", leading men hold hands, and look into each others eyes. I can only imagine what Lucy and Ethyl would be up to.

In 1954, I was born to a family in which both parents shared a marriage. Their marriage did not have to be defined by moral relativity. Today it would be called an “opposite-sex marriage”.

For as much as Joe McCarthy is demonized, he was right. If the Americans of 1954 knew what their country has become, the hearings he chaired would have been replaced by lynch mobs.

Well if you want continuity, Elizabeth is still Queen, and The Cleveland Indians still can’t win when it counts.

[Borges]

As a young woman yeah. Her grandfather was a communist and had everyone in the family register that way.