Letter

In response to Shadow of McCarthyism looms over controversial firing of Texas professor who taught about gender identity

Conservatism versus freedom

The US loves to lecture the world on the indispensability of its political system which supposedly encapsulates freedom and democracy. That system is deliberately designed to be extraordinarily vulnerable to manipulation by their wealthy elites.

Two hundred years of efforts to prevent a high standard of public education, to enable the control of the “bewildered herd” as those elites describe the people, has rendered the US more susceptible than any other country to irrational fears and created panics. The efforts of the Orange Donald are simply a part of that 200 years of social manipulation.

McCarthyism was just another example of those detestable and shabby efforts in what those same conservatives like to describe as the “indispensable country”. So is the Donald. As this truly dysfunctional empire dies, it seems unlikely that an utterly compromised and dishonest Supreme Court will save anything that even begins to look like free speech.

It seems US indispensability is only displayed as an example of how not to be an exemplar to the world!

— Les Macdonald from Balmain NSW 2041