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1. My Parents Were John Birchers
Tue May 16, 2017, 02:15 PM
May 2017

I remember my mom would not let us watch "Bewitched" because she thought it was part of a communist plot to normalized the abnormal.

I don't think "Bewitched" was a problem but we do seem to think the chasm between the right and the left is normal.

Oh and racism... she believed communists plotted to create racial division. To her the pawns were MLK and others in the civil rights movement. Maybe she was right except the pawns were really the white supremacists.

I actually read that book "None Dare Call it Treason" as a teenager. Don't remember much of it though.

I'm no expert by any means but I don't see a whole lot of difference between Russia and the Communist Soviet Union. They both seem totalitarian to me and I don't think anyone would dispute Putin worldly ambitions.

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