Political Climate of the 1950's.

Impact of McCarthyism in the United States.

McCarthyism was the period in the late 1940's and early 1950's when radicals were removed from every part of the US society. Senator Joe McCarthy from Wisconsin blamed several political affiliates of associating with or being communist. McCarthyism succeeded in separating left-wing ideas (and their long history in the working class movements) from American Society. Truman passed the loyalty Act in 1947 which forced government workers to sign anti-communist loyalty oaths to keep their jobs. Many people went to prison during this time where they were faced with poor conditions and abuse. There were many precise areas of American society that McCarthyism touched. In the area of social rule McCarthyism may have terminated much-needed reforms. As the nation's politics swung to the right after World War II, the federal government discarded the incomplete plan of the New Deal. National health insurance, a social reform held close by the rest of the mechanized world, fell to the side.

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The left liberal political coalition that may have maintained health reforms and related projects was frayed by the anti-Communist crusade. Moderates dreaded acknowledgement with everything that appeared to be too fundamental, and people to the left of them were either not heard or harassed. McCarthyism additionally added to the reduction of the reform impulse by helping to redirect the awareness of the labor movement, the strongest foundation within the old New Deal coalition, from outside organizing to interior politicking.

Dynamic Conservatism.

Dynamic conservatism is the reluctance of social systems to change. In other words people fight to stay the same. Stalemates and obstructions are key components of policy reform processes. There are various forms in which they are noticeable, from absolute resistance to secret struggles, from obstructionist activities to inspired conformity, from institutional incompetence to...