The insanity of today's Republican Party

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The US and Soviet Union weren't the only countries inolved in the Cold War, you know. Other Western nations like Canada were players as well. The Red Scare was in fact very prevalent here. Fred Rose, for example, was elected to the House of Commons as a member of the Communist Party and was removed from his seat and imprisoned for suspected espionage (complete fearmongering), and the Canada-USSR Summit Series (hockey) was an East vs. West Battle on par or possibly larger than that of the USA-USSR Lake Placid game. The Cold War very much factored into Canada's political atmosphere and tensions were very, very high here. Of course, you wouldn't understand that because you're an American and can't possibly imagine any experiences outside your own or what you've been brainwashed to believe. Seriously, the Cold War ended a long time ago. I'm getting sick of hearing the excuse of "residual fears" from the Cold War to explain America's ignorance. When Universal Healthcare was created in Canada it was met with the same opposition and communist fears that exists is in the USA today. Except that happened in 1966 at the height of the Cold War and not two decades after the Soviet Union collapsed.