Once Upon a Time, We Called Them Traitors
Back in the 1950s — the so-called good old days when (according to Donald Trump’s MAGA movement) America was great, at least we all knew the good guys from the bad guys. Average people like my father and uncle fought in WWII and were the good guys. Nazis and fascists were the bad guys.
Then came the Cold War, pitting the United States against the Soviets, who put an Iron Curtain across Eastern Europe. Communists were imagined under every kitchen table, and kids like me hid under our school desks in duck-and-cover drills meant to save us from nuclear explosions in our backyards. Anyone who thought Nikita Khrushchev, then premier of the Soviet Union, was a nice guy needed to have their head examined. And, if you sided with the Rooskies, you were branded a traitor, pure and simple.
But now, it’s not as easy. These days, it’s hard to tell who is on whose side, which people are the heroes, and which ones are the scoundrels.
Take the new American hero icon, Elon Musk, the epitome of the American dream. He’s the guy who invented the Tesla, saved Twitter with a 44 million dollar deal, and launched Starlink, the high-tech wonder that can be seen in the night skies throughout the world, bringing the internet to far-flung places.
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