Some news that would be completely mundane today but scary or shocking in the past.

  • Dark Arc@social.packetloss.gg
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    1 year ago

    “PEOPLE CLAIMING STATE AND CHURCH SHOULD BE SEPARATED ARE NOT FIT FOR OFFICE, THEY ARE COMMUNIST TRAITORS”

    That’s more of a 50-70s thing. In the 1920s communism wasn’t a big idea in the US and God wasn’t in the pledge nor part of our national motto.

    • jaywalker@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      The first Red Scare was in 1919 and communism was a big enough idea in the US that the government was putting communists in prison