The Joseph Mccarthy: A Dangerous Political Movement

Joseph McCarthy is alive and well in today's society, and has been for many centuries, under different names and different faces, but the idea has never changed. Fear, doubt, and uncertainty became the unspoken anthem for many political movements throughout America's history, though it wasn't until the 1950s that the movement claimed the iconic name and face that we associate with it now. Even though it can be proven fruitful in the long run, McCarthyism is a dangerous political tactic that completely bypasses the individuals' constitutional rights; dangerous because it ignores the individuals' right to privacy, and because it provides a powerful political weapon for politicians to use to make people wary and uncertain about a particular group