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McCarthy was only wrong about what motivates people to confuse humanism with extremist utopian ideologies, he believed that only someone incredibly stupid would look at the USSR and not question whether there's something seriously wrong with Marxism, so he assumed there was some personal gain in it for them and that the USSR was involved because they were a major superpower at the time and WW2 and nazism had shown that democracy is vulnerable to subversion if people do nothing.
The truth is you are that stupid.
You don't expect the government to care for you, but you do place excessive trust in anyone who is part of your political "tribe", your idea of "more informed" is entirely subjective, it is due to psychological conditioning, humans are pack animals and your sub-culture and political beliefs are just manifestations of this. Why else do you think it's a good idea to break windows of high street shops which are struggling in the recession and will probably have to lay off workers (hurr workers of the world unite) to cover the costs when you could be canvassing and starting official petitions?