Because there was no red-tagging then, I became a communist

WHATEVER the Left propagandists and bleeding-heart liberals claim are the serious dangers of what is unfortunately called "red-tagging," such public identification of organizations and individuals as being fronts or members of the Communist Party, if it had been done in the 1970s with the same intensity that it is being done today, I wouldn't have become a party cadre, and remain one for six years.