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el_bryanto

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3. That's a pretty good summary

Reply to wyldwolf (Original post)

Fri Aug 8, 2014, 08:32 AM

Aug 2014

I might add in some 100 years of red scares - we are conditioned nationally to think of anything with the faintest whiff of communism as being not just foreign but evil.

But you sort of get to that in #3 in part.

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Why do Americans seem to be so scared of a European/Canadian style health care system? [View all] wyldwolf Aug 2014 OP

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That's a pretty good summary el_bryanto Aug 2014 #3

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