re: #199 Cato the Elder

Please don’t think for a minute that I would ever defend the JBS’s policies or the tactics of McCarthy. I was making a point using a term that I find applicable and had no knowledge of its origins.

The origins of a word or concept, however, do not invalidate the concept as such.

I wasn’t implicating you. I was pointing it out because it is something that comes up. AGW as the “new communist” menace. Are there communists in the “movement.” No doubt but I don’t think that matters. Otherwise if we were to become purists to that end we wouldn’t be looking to China to bankroll this country’s very existence.