Exactly. They skipped all that and went straight to imprison and/or kill.
At no time in America has being a liberal ever been a capital crime. Or a crime at all.
The Iraq invasion under Dubya Bush.
Me: Outside of wartime
You: Well, during wartime...
But yeah, I remember how we still to this day don't know who founded Code Pink because any public association with the group led to becoming permanently unemployable, and there was only ever one anti-war protest, because so many people involved with it got thrown into solitary, where they sit to this day without charges filed against them. Totally the same! Real thing that happened!
Also just about all of the Atomic Age. More than once I've heard of people lamenting not having a "Committee of Unamerican Activities"
Except the USSR was absolutely a real thing, as was the KGB, as was its spy network in the USA, as was its organized subversive activities in this country. Contrary to popular liberal myth, Alger Hiss's espionage activities were not a matter of free speech or free association. Having retarded ideas about economics has never, ever been a crime in this country, as we see by the entire history of Democrats winning elections and proceeding to shit all over the country. Coordinating espionage and political subversion with a hostile empire? Different story.
The right wing tried banning "It's a Wonderful Life" for being Communist propaganda. Get out of here with that shit.
Proves my point - it was only a fringe that wanted this, and the movie didn't go anywhere. By contrast, libs managed to get Dugin's books banned from Amazon, Dixie flags banned from almost everywhere, unpersoned more personalities than I can count, and have managed to run the proprietor of this site out of the country and invent what appears to be a whole new method of web hosting for the crime of talking about real things trannies actually do.
I know it's fun to pretend that thinking marginal tax rates should be a bit higher and the government should nationalize hospitals is super edgy, totally risking your life for that opinion, bro, but uh...no. Liberalism's been the ruling ideology of the USA since my grandparents were kids.
