What is the reason for Socialism being such a dirty dirty word in America?

[Rev. Rye]

What in the world? I don't even understand that comic. Like I understand it's that Russian hammer and sickle with the statue of liberty, but what in the world? Also, wasn't there a movie made on this Red Scare? I think it stars Jim Carey? Like where people were being accused of being a communist and would get deported or sent to jail. Something like that. I remember my mother telling me about that time. She was born in the late 50s, but still people were scared as hell of anyone who labeled themselves a communist.

There were literally dozens, due in no small part to Hollywood's tendency to look back on its past, which it wound up being caught up in. The Majestic, the one you mentioned, is by no means one of the better ones. My personal favourite film about the bullshit that was the Red Scare is Good Night and Good Luck starring David Strahairn as Edward R. Murrow, the most prominent journalist willing to call McCarthy out on his bullshit.

Also, on the other end of the spectrum, Big Jim McLain was John Wayne's cinematic attempt at fighting communism via cinema. Remarkably, when the time came for it to be dubbed into Italian (as well as German, apparently), the dubbers could make neither head nor tail of the film's understanding of communism and, not wanting to turn down the chance of making a shitton of money by not releasing a film starring one of the top movie stars of the day, turned it into a film about fighting pot smugglers. It was retitled Marijuana! I'd love to see a redubbed version of this film, Backstroke of the West-style with a translation of one of those Marijuana scripts.