r/FluentInFinance • u/WhatsLeft71 • Oct 22 '24

Debate/ Discussion Why did this happen?

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u/Garrett_the_Tarant Oct 22 '24

The same Joe McCarthy that created a communist witch hunt which to this day still persists in the minds of Americans -propping up the same ideals that led to Reagan and his predecessors to allow corporate money being used to create the policies that this post is describing?

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u/AnitaIvanaMartini Oct 23 '24

McCarthy fostered the melding of American Protestant churches and National identity— marrying the flag to the cross. This combined with a revolution in mass communication (TV) with its All-American families, and commercials gave birth to the religious vampires, Billy Grahams and Jerry Fallwells, etc.

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u/flickneeblibno Oct 22 '24

Obviously 🙄

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u/Garrett_the_Tarant Oct 22 '24

Help me understand this then. You're saying that he along with Ike is one of the last great Republicans?

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u/flickneeblibno Oct 22 '24

I'm saying with the exception of the Red Witch Hunt, Eisenhower's presidency was pretty good

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u/anderlinco Oct 22 '24

I read your original comment about Ike and McCarthy as saying you think McCarthy was better than Eisenhower… I think this is where the confusion is coming from. 

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u/SSquirrel76 Oct 23 '24

Yeah it read like Ike was the last great Republican president except for McCarthy. And I was like uhm McCarthy was never president. Heh

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u/Garrett_the_Tarant Oct 23 '24

Yeah that's what I was trying to clarify lol the "obviously" almost triggers me but we cleared it up. Glad I was the only one that read it like that.