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We now know that McCarthyism and the whole Red Scare (that had us grade school kids scrambling under our desks for air raid drills) was nothing but a ploy to distract from what was becoming [[The System]] of [[Organized crime]]. Conspiratorial lying of the John Birch Society (stepchild of McCarthyism), especially its parlor game of [[Albert_E._Burke#%22Creeping_Socialism%22|“Creeping Socialism”]], has continued to be played well into the 21st century and has only gotten worse for wear. Christians especially should have known all along that stealing lands of [[First Peoples]] and exploitation of human [[Labor]] by way of indentured servitude and slavery for no purpose other than for riches, for [[Capitalism#Love_of_Money|Love of Money]], constituted [[Organized crime]], and that such is not only unethical, but immoral from a Christian perspective. True Christianity should be antidote to all such evils, and should have opposed development of [[The System]] instead of aiding and abetting its development as American “Christianity” has over the many decades with its heretical [[wikipedia:Prosperity_theology|Prosperity Gospel]] that posits riches (in Calvinistic Puritan fashion) as being proof of favor from God. This lie was evidenced initially in the [https://www.dissentmagazine.org/blog/the-great-barbecue-revisited Great Barbeque] of [[wikipedia:Conservatism#The_Gilded_Age|The Gilded Age]] and [[wikipedia:Gay_Nineties|Gay Nineties]] in the 19th century continuing through to the [[wikipedia:Roaring_Twenties|Roaring Twenties]] in the 20th century, laid low only by the [[wikipedia:Great_Depression|Great Depression]]. The same “Christian” form of Mammon worship was revived post World War II (after a short New Deal reprieve from that initial liberalism) by neo-liberalism beginning in the 80s and continuing through Reagan, Bush I and Bush II years into the 90s, continuing on through to today, thoroughly supported by both political parties as usual.<br> | We now know that McCarthyism and the whole Red Scare (that had us grade school kids scrambling under our desks for air raid drills) was nothing but a ploy to distract from what was becoming [[The System]] of [[Organized crime]]. Conspiratorial lying of the John Birch Society (stepchild of McCarthyism), especially its parlor game of [[Albert_E._Burke#%22Creeping_Socialism%22|“Creeping Socialism”]], has continued to be played well into the 21st century and has only gotten worse for wear. Christians especially should have known all along that stealing lands of [[First Peoples]] and exploitation of human [[Labor]] by way of indentured servitude and slavery for no purpose other than for riches, for [[Capitalism#Love_of_Money|Love of Money]], constituted [[Organized crime]], and that such is not only unethical, but immoral from a Christian perspective. True Christianity should be antidote to all such evils, and should have opposed development of [[The System]] instead of aiding and abetting its development as American “Christianity” has over the many decades with its heretical [[wikipedia:Prosperity_theology|Prosperity Gospel]] that posits riches (in Calvinistic Puritan fashion) as being proof of favor from God. This lie was evidenced initially in the [https://www.dissentmagazine.org/blog/the-great-barbecue-revisited Great Barbeque] of [[wikipedia:Conservatism#The_Gilded_Age|The Gilded Age]] and [[wikipedia:Gay_Nineties|Gay Nineties]] in the 19th century continuing through to the [[wikipedia:Roaring_Twenties|Roaring Twenties]] in the 20th century, laid low only by the [[wikipedia:Great_Depression|Great Depression]]. The same “Christian” form of Mammon worship was revived post World War II (after a short New Deal reprieve from that initial liberalism) by neo-liberalism beginning in the 80s and continuing through Reagan, Bush I and Bush II years into the 90s, continuing on through to today, thoroughly supported by both political parties as usual.<br> | ||
''See'' — [[ | ''See'' — [[Organized_Crime#Michael_Woodiwiss|Michael Woodiwiss]], [[Organized_Crime#Jonathan_Marshall|Jonathan Marshall]], [[The_System#John_Loftus|John Loftus]], [[Capitalism#American_Foundations|American Foundations]], [[Albert E. Burke]] | ||
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