Sen. Joe McCarthy and the Sub-Prime Crisis

When saintly Sen. Joe McCarthy asked witnesses if they were or ever had been associated with the Communist Party they were shocked, aghast, and horrified at such blatant, militaristic effrontery. They painted it as nothing less than modern, deadly, witch hunting. In the end, the simple truth was that most of the witnesses were communists who didn't want their treason or near treasonous behavior discovered by the free society in which they lived. If not, the hearings would have been unnecessary or, at worst, a great chance for those under suspicion to triumphantly demonstrate their patriotism.

When the cold war ended we learned what was obvious, namely, that in fact there were many communists in the gov't (in fact, some tried and hung) who, among other things, were successful nuclear spies for the Soviet Union. Oleg Kalugin, head of the KGB in Washington during the cold war, said,...... "we looked among the liberal Democrats for recruits." So it's not coincidental, 60 years later, to find that Hillary (a Democrat) worked for a communist law firm while in college and that Obama, (a Democrat) "gravitated toward Marxist professors during college." It's not surprising to find that Rev. Wright (a Democrat) wants God to dam capitalist America or that Hillary and Barak are among the most liberal Senators in America, who, one might suspect, are Manchurian Candidates now pragmatic enough to hide their Marxism as mere "caring" liberalism. After all, neither has ever said how big they want the gov't to be even though it is far bigger and more expensive than American socialists of the 1920's ever dreamed. After 200 years of increasing taxing and spending they both still stand for nothing more than even more taxing and spending and regulating. Both want to socialize medicine, end free trade, and now regulate the tenebrous financial markets.

So how is that even now, after the failure of the USSR, Communist China, East Germany, North Korea, and Cuba, that communism lives, and lives in America no less? Possibly, it lives through the same mechanism that God lives, i.e., as a manifestation of our need for a loving, caring God in an often scary, painful, and, ultimately, deadly universe.

We are taught to deeply love and need our families and friends and yet they are naturally ripped from us, and often by slow, wasting, and disfiguring deaths. The more we love, the more we have to lose. It's no wonder that we are crazies with a Stockholm-like Syndrome who have always imagined communist, monarchical or benevolent despot Gods who can protect us from the cruel world we imagine they created for us.

Similarly, in the case of the current credit crisis we imagine an academically inclined "regulator socialist " God who will see that it, and all bad things will never happen again even when what seems apparent from human history is that the most regulated economies (the communist ones, in particular) have failed the most. Nevertheless, Democrats are perpetually tempted to regulate America, a