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Originally Posted by IndigoErth

People today who might find some person online calling them a Nazi are hardly getting accused in any literal sense that it ruins lives. The Right's era of McCarthyism, fear mongering about communists and false allegations, however, wasn't so harmless.

Funny thing, back than USSR indeed had a lot of agents in USA and McCarthy, even as zealous as he was, was not far off the mark. The whole thing could have been handled better, but chasing commies away was a good thing. In general, making commies BTFO is a good thing any place any time.

Also, saying that online harassment from the Left doesn't ruin lives is hilarious: its not only ruin lives, but some people even committed suicide, under pressure of the Twatter mob. But, I guess, every time, when Left attack, harass or kill someone, from Stalin to Twatter trash it doesn't count, since "those people were bad and got consequences for their own doings".

Originally Posted by IndigoErth

Other things adding fuel to the same fire, the religious right stemming from the 1970s.

There is no sudden "just this decade" change on either side, there is a lot of longtime activity that feeds into the present climate.

Supposedly a lot of McCarthy's fellow party members were afraid to stand up to him, out of fear of hurting their own political careers. Nothing ever changes.

Tell me any difference between Religious Right and modern Left, outside of ideologies motivating them.

Also, show me which popular Democrats, who matter, gonna stand up to Biden and Occasional Cortez, without fear of being called every name under the sun by their allies.

You're right only about one thing - things don't change.
Just different figureheads take place supported by the same elites, manipulating population to their own ends.