Treasonous behavior Quotes
McCarthy was one of the most interesting political phenomena of politics in the 1950s. He was an alcoholic megalomaniac who made wild accusations about communists everywhere and that the Secretary of State and other politicians were communists. He claimed to have a list of thousands of communists in high positions of government. His accusations were so dramatic that most people assumed that there were facts behind them otherwise no rational man would say such things. But it turned out that not a single accusation was ever proven. When McCarthy was esposed, he was censured by the Senate and he lost most of his political credibility and shortly thereafter died as a result of his severe alcoholism.
When John L. Lewis called for a miners’ strike in 1943, the Communists lashed out at him and accused him of being a Nazi sympathizer. Communist patriotism was not due to fondness for the United States and their military; in fact, before Hitler invaded Russia at the beginning of World War II, communists, for the most part, were outspoken opponents of U.S. militarism.
