I just watched a movie from 2000 with Jeff Goldblum, One of the Hollywood Ten, about the blacklisted Hollywood Director, Herbert Biberman. It was an interesting, though not Oscar quality period piece, but it was a fascinating story about the McCarthy era. The thing of it is that it reminded me of now – the same sentiment. The current Republican Party is the direct heir to the anti-Communist red-baiters of the 1950’s. Nixon and Reagan were both part of that story. It was actually Reagan’s intro into politics. Bush and Cheney haven’t missed a beat. The same thing is going on now, but there aren’t any Communists to bait. Now it’s "libruls" and people who aren’t Fundamentalist Christians. Why does that brand of politics always seem to require somebody to hate? And why am I always it? It seems like by Medicare age, I’d finally understand that…Posted on Sunday 11 March 2007
I just watched a movie from 2000 with Jeff Goldblum, One of the Hollywood Ten, about the blacklisted Hollywood Director, Herbert Biberman. It was an interesting, though not Oscar quality period piece, but it was a fascinating story about the McCarthy era. The thing of it is that it reminded me of now – the same sentiment. The current Republican Party is the direct heir to the anti-Communist red-baiters of the 1950’s. Nixon and Reagan were both part of that story. It was actually Reagan’s intro into politics. Bush and Cheney haven’t missed a beat. The same thing is going on now, but there aren’t any Communists to bait. Now it’s "libruls" and people who aren’t Fundamentalist Christians. Why does that brand of politics always seem to require somebody to hate? And why am I always it? It seems like by Medicare age, I’d finally understand that…
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