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"I think we can trace most of our problems back to the end of the cold war. If we have some common thing to fight against we stop fighting each other...."

That never happened during the Cold War from what I've read, and from what I observed starting in the early 1970s it steadily got worse.

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Note that the 1970s was a time of detente in the Cold War, so it supports the OPs point. As we started to forget about the Russians, we started to fight each other. The 80s is often held up as a time of renewed national unity, and it corresponds with heightened Cold War fears.

On the other hand, the 60s saw race riots and massive demonstrations against the Vietnam war. Plus the McCarthyism in the 40s and 50s.

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