Stuff like this is, I think, a good demonstration of the thesis that Roderic Day advances: Westerners aren’t anti-Communists because of the dastardly propaganda, it’s the other way around: they believe this plainly absurd shit because they want to.
They are good little Roman citizens, always ready to believe that Rome is killing bad guys because that conquest is how they got their material abundance in the first place.
Stuff like this is, I think, a good demonstration of the thesis that Roderic Day advances: Westerners aren’t anti-Communists because of the dastardly propaganda, it’s the other way around: they believe this plainly absurd shit because they want to.
They are good little Roman citizens, always ready to believe that Rome is killing bad guys because that conquest is how they got their material abundance in the first place.
I definitely believed Red Scare stuff because there was no readily available evidence to the contrary.