Reply #27: There Has Never Been Such A Time, Sir

[The Magistrate]

This outlook has been a sturdy perennial throughout human history, and in the history of the United States as well. You might enjoy looking into the nineteenth century "Anti-Mason" Party, as well as the Know Nothings. The far right in this country peddled for decades, and still peddles, the idea that Communists are actually in control of the U.S. government: there were books published in the fifties claiming President Eisenhower was a Kremlin agent. Perhaps the only new development is that persons who consider themselves leftists have taken up some of these old rightist outlooks proclaiming a "hidden hand" behind events, rather than the play of economic and historical forces.