House Un-American Activities Committee
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House Un-American Activities Committee
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I still have not seen a convincing reason on why the red scare stopped.
It seems like Americans just stopped worrying about it and laughing these people out of power.
McCarthy embarrassed himself at the Army-McCarthy meetings on TV, which turned public opinion against him.
Really, the Red Scare just slinked into the background, the John Birchers kept a little bit of that fire going on in the background. It’s still popular to accuse Dems of being communists. (And you might have noticed states starting to ban fluoride…)
The obvious answer to this for many years was, no. And it wasn't just one guy running the red scare so getting called out on it publicly once is something that shouldn't have stopped the political tide.
This time is the most recent witchhunt in US history and the fact that it stopped so suddenly and reversed course so drastically gives me hope. Even though it ruined so many peoples lives.
Still however, I think there could be some good lessons in how this movement ended to the people that weren't alive for it and after reading a few books and watching some films on it I still don't really know why it ended.