by Joe Conason, from Creators.
I am posting this piece because it represents a quintessential liberal view on recent neo-conservative attacks on key legal figures in the Obama administration.
Liberal views, IMO, retard any effective action to change the economic system of capitalism that is currently destroying the communities and lives of working people. This liberal view falsifies both our history (the McCarthy period) and our current political circumstances. The end effect, of course, is to preserve the legitimacy of the capitalist system.
Senator McCarthy didn't just happen, he was essentially produced by the right wing of the ruling class in the US during the early post war (WWII) period in order to roll back all the concessions to labor and public social services created by the Roosevelt administration to ward of threats to capitalism in the US during the volatile 1930s. McCarthy was a bit of a nut, and when his nuttiness went to far when he attacked the US Army, the ruling class got rid of him. He was disposable because the damage he and others caused to any thoughts of peaceful co-existence with the Soviet Union and to the gains made by the US labor movement had been accomplished.
There is now, as during that period, a right wing of the ruling class that intends to fight any concessions to working people that may arise in the liberal wing in order to stifle increasing domestic disturbances caused by the recent economic collapse. In contrast to the earlier period of rollbacks, the current and more aggressive right wing, the neo-conservatives, want to complete the work of G. W. Bush to turn this country into a complete fascist police state under their control.