I was four years old when I learned adults were too stupid to use science to make political decisions.
I was four years old when I first learned that political cartoons are the most accurate summary of a situation, and that they only age better with time.
My grandfather was good friends with Ronald Reagan and my childhood was complicated because of it.

No matter how big the world seemed, I had inside knowledge that it is really small and just very exclusionary.
When McCarthyism ended, the Hollywood blacklists became moot.

So what's the opposite of a Blacklist that allows the same control?

And that's how the Emmys were born.
Grandpa Don (his nickname was Rain; another story) even hosted the Emmys while he was president of ATAS.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/6th_Primetime_Emmy_Awards
I know my grandfather threw the first fundraiser for Reagan to be Governor of California, but you can't easily Google that info, so it will eventually disappear into the ether.
Not a huge point to this thread, but just that we are leaving a lot on the table because we are uneducated idiots about our own recent history.
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