"The Kaiser wasn't really such a bad guy..."

[brooklynite]

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[bucolic_frolic]

1. It was called the Red Scare, and was a response to socialism from 1900 to post-WWI

James Weinstein's "The Corporate Ideal in the Liberal State" - not well regarded by mainstream historians - documented the period. Workers wanted better conditions and socialism became popular. Corporate Titans responded around 1910 with measures to co-opt worker unrest. Republican politicians in city governments went along. Civic associations, the National Civic Federation, council-mayor reform of previous boss political systems joined the fray. By 1920 some corporations had worker housing, a nurse or doctor on-site, education on diet and living well. The period Post WWI included things like the espionage act, to curb leftist political activity. Right wingers thought Marxism- Leninism might gain a stronger foothold.

Don't know where Bird Brain is on this. Sounds like he can't tell left from right, libertarianism from communism, Russia from America.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

2. Random Piles should retire to raking leaves, with a dull rake so he doesn't hurt himself.