With newspapers making McCarthy a front page headline everyday, Americans would start to think that Communism could be corrupting the government. However, McCarthy¹s accusations had one thing against them: they were just accusations with no proof to back them. Therefore, the ³Red Scare² was just that -- a scare, not a threat.

             There was not enough support in America during 1950-1954 for a revolution like communism to occur. Communism involves the participation of the whole government or country, not just a few select people. The lack of interest in Communism was clear during the 1950¹s: .

             Even if it did not leap off every opinion poll, .

             anticommunism was evident. A poll found that 68% would outlaw communist party membership; 83 % would make communists register with the government; 73 % would ban them from college teaching. (Fried, 88).

             America did not want a communist society. In fact, as said above, a communist was not welcome in the United States. Since a ban from teaching would have possibly occurred, Communist ideas would have been hard to spread effectively among the future of the United States. Also, .

             the 1950¹s would not have been the best time to try to make communism an American standard: ³Even independent of McCarthy, the years 1950-1954 marked the climax of anticommunism in American life.² (Fried, 144) Since the end of World War Two, the United States and Soviet Union had a strong dislike for each other as well as the other¹s method of government. The 1950¹s proved to be a time where communism would not have been allowed, simply .

             because that was the way the Soviet Union ran their country. Anyone who expressed favor for communist ideas was rejected by society: ³The ease with which redbaiting discredited so many causes showed how deeply anticommunist assumptions permeated American cultures.² (Fried 169) Society made sure to make a point of saying that communism would not be welcome in the United States.