“The Yanks are coming! The Yanks are coming!” The true North, strong and free, we stand on guard for thee. And don’t forget to vote for the Liberal Party.
The “Red Scare” of the 1950s wasn’t so much a “scare” as it was an excuse to politically punish liberals. During the Great Depression, a couple of million lefties “flirted” with communism as an answer to the vagaries of capitalism’s economic cycles. Misguided and hopelessly naive, they believed that the American experiment could be married to the Soviet experiment.
