Socialist Progressives

We let Joseph McCarthy convince us that communists would come down our streets and take over our towns. We saw communists and pinkos on every school board and city council. We let war mongers sell us that we needed to be the policeman of the world, or else the domino theory would flip all those 3rd world counties over to the communists. We built stock piles and piles of nuclear weapons that have sat in underground silos for 50 years - "just in case." We taught little children to hide under their desks in atomic bomb drills. So now nearly 60% of the fed budget goes to "defense." But wow, do we have a great war machine.