went along with all of this because they were scared. The government scared them with their bogeyman and now they were paranoid enough to fear and hate things that there was no reason to fear or hate. Whitfeild feels that it is due to these facts that it is wrong to say that the culture of 1950s America directly coincides with the cold war. The society that the American people dwelled in at this time was relatively free, but the political system of this time teetered on the brink of totalitarianism. We manipulated the thoughts of our free people of this land and had them changed to things more suitable so no one would get into trouble. In aspects like these we were no different from our foe. Yet one of the major differences between the Stalinists, according to Whitfield, and us is that we did value to at least some degree the preservation of human life. When you went against the system here the most that usually happened was that you got ostracized socially and economically. When you went against Stalin you were extremely lucky if you werent killed or stuck on a tundra prison lifting rocks for the remainder of your life.Republicans jumped on this movement of super anti-communism much stronger and faster then the democrats; this was almost a fatal mistake for the democrats. The movement of this era under the paranoia of socialist tendencies was that if you werent in the fight to kill the beast you were probably helping it or sympathetic to its cause. The conservative republicans were completely gung-ho to fighting communism. Liberalism, which has always generally been linked completely to the Democratic Party, began to be seen as soft in the eyes of money because of actions like their ability to ruthlessly fight invisible communists like Barry Goldwater republicans. These liberals and democrats in general who tried to institute progressive plans to help the working class were seen as pink. According to Whitfield, Pinks were those who wa...
