Everyone thought I was wacko....including my family. I have had many since then....tell me how right I was. It took 50 years for it to sink in with some folks.....and that's the tragedy.
When my son was in about 8th grade in 2004, he noted that his history teacher spent a week on Joe McCarthy. I asked him why he thought his school would teach about a senator from the 1950s. Even then my son knew the score. He said it was to make kids think that anyone who was worried about communism was nuts. — from the mouths of babes.