I have a subtle and more complicated view of history nowadays.  That's why it's getting harder for me to laugh at Glenn Beck lately.  I wasn't always like this.  Back in the day I was just another diehard radical liberal, protesting against a war I knew was a mistake.  Now when I look at political arguments it's impossible for me to see left or right, red and blue.

You see, when the Iron Curtain rose over Europe in the aftermath of WWII, America knew very little about Russia.  The OSS, precursor to the CIA, was in desperate need of information on Stalin; more and more intelligence analysts, especially those tied to the Military-Industrial Complex, were predicting war with Russia.   So our government turned to the very people we had just spent and killed millions to defeat.  High-level ex-Nazi intelligence officers like Reinhard Gelen were recruited to work for the US government against the Soviet Union.  These men (and their subordinates) were disappeared from the lists of War criminals, given amnesty, and allowed to continue their work unpunished.  Please, though, understand that when I say "our government", I actually mean a very small number of criminal elements who had already been colluding with the Nazis for years.  I'm not exaggerating in the least.  Look up Operation Paperclip on Wikipedia.  This is real.  Some Nazis were left in Europe to fight the Russians, while some were brought to America to serve in the government bureaucracy.  This operation was so illegal, so secretive, that it is possible that President Truman was not informed until Paperclip was completed.  For about thirty years, the American intelligence services and military command were both infested by Nazis.

That's why I implied Glenn Beck was partially correct earlier.  He recently discovered, through the declassified Venona Documents, that Soviet Communist spies infiltrated the highest levels of American government after WWII.  His main thesis, which is slowly being fleshed out, is that the communist influences which Joseph McCarthy uncovered during the Cold War remain to this day.  People like Obama, Sotomayor/Kagan and Emmanuel are secret Socialist conspirators who have slowly gained control of the political process over the last six decades.  I'm not even saying this thesis is incorrect; I'm saying Beck's conspiracy is incomplete.  Beck is actually half-right when he accuses the Democrats of  secretly holding Socialist or Communist beliefs.  However Beck fails to realize that if the Soviet Union seized control of the American Left, this was only a response to the Post-War Nazi infiltration of Right Wing aspects of the intelligence and security infrastructure.  Do you get what I'm saying?  Both sides of the political spectrum were shaped by the two systems which they universally reviled for the last half-century.  Obama might be a Communist, Beck, but I wouldn't push the point;  You're tacitly admitting to being a Nazi.