If you could eliminate one person from history...who would it be?

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332. I think I would take out Joe McCarthy

Republicans have tried forever to instill fear into people through one means or another. McCarthy's "Red Scare" is one such ploy,and I think without his particular credibility, the US would have a short break in dealing with such things.

Of course, wiping out the whole series of testimonies won't happen, because unfortunately they will. However, without the charisma of McCarhty, the testimonies wouldn't appear as salacious as they happened, and the country would shift ever so much to the left, without the constsnt worry about McCarthyism.

That'gentle prod, though, would--or at least could ramp up more democratic politics, and along the way, perceptions could change altogether. Imagine no Nixon, no Reagan, to Bushs.

Whether we'd be better off or not, I don't know. I would just hope it would be worth it.