"How many "very decent Americans" were called Un-American and told they hate freedom? Why, I recall a time when expressing an opinion that was at odds with Bush's wars would be greeted with an invitation to move to another country. Pft. Cuts both ways."
And haven't we seen all of this before? Study the McCarthy era.
All of the same shit. Same party, same dogmas, same assumption that anyone who didn't adhere to the far right-wing agenda was a "Commie pinko fag."
The only difference was that, at the time we had a Republican President, Eisenhower, who was truly a "Great American". And an enemy, the USSR, who actually had the potential to do far greater harm than a bunch of Islamist fanatics could ever dream of.
And oh, BTW, the tax rate for the wealthiest Americans under Ike was 90%!
He was followed by a Socially Liberal Democrat who cut taxes, JFK, who is frequently blamed and hated by some on the right, for the troubles that followed his administration.
Dave