...and who were hounded and brought before Congressional committees and expected to indict their co-workers based on hearsay evidence. Not.

Remember also that the ends do not justify the means. If that were true, then blood feuds deliver justice in their rough way, and the Hatfields and the McCoys have been right all along.

If we restrict lawmaking about war to warriors, shall we restrict lawmaking about business to business people, and lawmaking about religion to clergy, and lawmaking about ecology to ecologists, and lawmaking about labor to labor unionists?

An MS in psych can give valuable insight into approaches to an enemy whose recruitment strategy revolves around a mutual hatred rather than a political or economic philosophy. In any case, the strength of a democracy is in the diversity of opinions that it fosters. The phrase "loyal opposition" didn't come out of thin air, but the bitter experience of civil war, in which opposing philosophies learned bloody lessons in who suffers when one side alone is heard.

Regards--
Mary Anne