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don't forget about the red scare of the 50s where respectable citizens would loose everything because of possible political affiliation.
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The days of McCarthy. Who could forget? The sixties were a trip. Pardon my pun.
Nuclear arms racing. Government promoting the constant scare tactic of a nuclear holocaust. The old kill a commie for your mommy mentality. That one was still prevalent through the late eighties. At least until the USSR had its' economic back broken. The big wigs in DC gasped when that happened because they didn't have a fear carrot to dangle anymore. So, they invent a new scare. Radical Muslim Jihad. Cementing it in place with commercial aircraft and a media blitz. Wars blossoming like top fourty hits, using invented threats.