McCarthyism
...elated anyway or sympathised in any way to the communists they would be blacklisted, or have their passport confiscated, being blacklisted meant that you would not be able to find work as easily. You really only had two choices you were either for the democratic society and McCarthyism or you were a communist, you couldn’t neither be for or against either party. Even if you weren’t communist in any way but sympathised that this regime on communists was too hard you would be labelled one, and punished. Loyal Americans against McCarthyism might say, it was an over the top radical approach of exterminating communism, also if loyal Americans had friends or relatives who were communist they could be punished as well. A man called Algar Hiss who was a very important figure and a civil servant was put on trial in 1948 acus...