In June of 1950, in response to the gauntlet so thrown down by Senator McCarthy which stipulated that the United States was in a battle between those that were communist atheists, so having infiltrated into the highest echelons of American power, against the Christian values so founded by this nation; McCarthy made it his point of principle, that the most patriotic act so needed by Americans was to flush out those communists, by any means so possible, in whatever places that they may so be, so as to thereby to return this country to what it so was supposed to represent, as envisioned by McCarthy.
The fundamental problem and error that McCarthy so represented was that he believed that true American patriots, should all be of the same mind, with the same religion, with the same orthodoxy, and should thereby desire to eliminate all those that were not of this milieu. Never once did McCarthy recognize that the truest American patriot, as so correctly acknowledged by the forthright Margaret Chase Smith, is one that holds their fellow countrymen to the Constitutional principles of this great nation, of which some of those very attributes are, for instance, the people's right to criticize their government, of their right to independent thinking, and thereby unpopular thoughts, along with the right of the people to peacefully assembly and to protest against that government of, by, and for the people; and in the exercise of any or all of those rights, this should never mean the loss of a job or a position or of freedom, but rather should be seen as the fair right to call that country so blessed by God, accountable to those tenets that it was so founded upon.
Margaret Chase Smith's "Declaration of Conscience" was the seminal call to all Americans to listen to and to pay proper obeisance to the better angels of our nature, rather than to let a wannabe demagogue to essentially sever this country from its "melting pot" background, to thereby become a hostile and repressive nation against all those that would not adhere to that which was so promulgated by McCarthy. Rather, through the great amalgamation of different voices, different viewpoints, and different opinions, so deeply expressed and felt, a nation such as the United States could still so rise to become the great beacon of light of the world, when those people are, ultimately, in adherence to the same vision, that each one of us is gifted with the exact, same unalienable rights, and that this country so formed, was thereby created so as to ensure its domestic tranquility, as well as to secure those blessings of liberty and to promote the general welfare of.
Each of us has a conscience, and it behooves each one of us, to listen closely to that conscience, so that we do not get unduly caught up in the emotions of a given moment in time, nor give in to needless fear, so as to sacrifice all that we hold so dear, for the false promise of a security or safety, when the doing of such, would serve to change us into that which would fundamentally undermine that Declaration of Independence, and our Constitution, to our own detriment by trading in our precious independence and liberty for that which would be a false flag and thereby the counterfeiting of that which binds and unites us together.