9 senseless social panics that did lasting damage to America

[Warpy]

6. That's not a social panic, it's an endemic problem

What this article is about is a series of (mostly) media scare articles that caused unreasonable amounts of panic among suburbanites who were prone to that sort of thing.

Well, except for "the marriage crunch." After my divorce, I took a great deal of comfort from that one, the notion that I was safer from getting stuck in another marriage than I was from terrorists.

On close examination, all the panic stories fell completely apart and it didn't take much close examination to do it.

The worst, I think, was the Red Scare. We're still dealing with that one in various forms and right wingers are still calling Democrats "commies."