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Half of the country was fully MacArthur-pilled during the Cold War. They were installing Nazis into a bunch of positions of power. There was a reactionary mind virus infecting a big chunk of the populace
Unrelated fact: This was the time period when the use of leaded gasoline peaked. It began to be phased out in 1973.
Unrelated to the prior unrelated fact: The Vietnam War ended in 1975.
The birthdates and childhoods of the biggest :frothingfash: I know line up with that.
America needed a hero so the media manufactured one.
The more you learn about MacArthur, the more you learn what a piece of shit he was.
Americans lionizing a right wing psycho? :shocked-pikachu: