I respected him.I will now spew my opinions about McCarthy.The senator in my view started off a hero.He went after a lot of antiAmerican folks who wanted to spy for "Uncle Joe".And at first,he was NOT interested in going after small fry.He only wanted the real traitors,spies and assorted other garbage exposed for what it was.If he hadstopped quickly,I'd have considered hima great American patriot.But McCarthy proved the old saw to be correct about the higher a monkey climbs,the more you see of its(sorry for some mild profanity)ass.As he got more powerful,he did unfortunately start going after innocent Americans who were of no threat to this country.He ruined lives.He didnot have to.If he had stayed on the original course,he would have gone down as a fine american.As it is,I still rather like McCarthy.He did a lot of good for exposing the communist slimebags that were prevalent in that era.But he abused his power and that knocks him down in my eyes a bit.
As for Kazan,he was a deeply patriotic man who was trying to expose the same things that the senator was trying to.He WAS a communist.He saw how degrading the ideology was and tried to do something about it.
To those on the left who do not like Kazan I ask a question:What if he had tried to expose conservatives?Would you still dislike him?
