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Originally Posted by Burninator
True. But I should have elaborated that America's enemy today is almost an invisible one. It was easy to put a face on everything war related back in the day. Just point to one of those countries. You can't put a face on the war on drugs. They've put a face on the War of Terror (Bin Laden) but that got all mixed up with Iraq and Saddam Hussein so it's almost a moot point. The paranoia of terrorism I would say is pretty high. See now obviously I wasn't alive in the 1950's so I have no idea what the life was like, nor did I claim to. It was just merely my take on American today as I see it. Perhaps the government manufactured the propaganda in that time, but I would argue that today it's the 24 hour news stations are that are making the propaganda.
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Um, 1950s, Hydrogen Bomb, Cold War, McCarthy-ism. Lots of propaganda at that time, and tons of paranoia of the evil communists. The only thing they didn't have back then that we do today is 24 hour news channels.