Hijacking History | The Texas Tribune

Here's a measuring stick for you. You are an insane Tea Party Traitor bastard if you think Joe McCarthy is a hero and want to change the nation's textbooks to say just that.

Sure, and I'm sure they were all for Hitler's "population reduction" campaigns and book burnings, too. These thoughts of cultural suppression and hatred, religious zealotry, literal whitewashing of history, and Luddite denial of science needs to be challenged and stopped if we even plan to try to maintain our status as a great nation.