The question I am answering is: ‘How did we get to a stage where one-third of Americans believe in more government, more even distribution of income and wealth; and every large city in the U.S. run by unions?’
I am able to trace the change back to the mid-1960’s when mainstream religions (Catholic, Lutheran, Presbyterian, Methodist and Episcopal) became Leftwing advocates. Their role as champions of America and as rungs on the social-climbing ladder had disappeared. They tried to appeal to the urban immigrant neo-communists and failed because the new base was anti-theist like post war Europe. The core pro-Americans joined the Baptist, Evangelical and Fundamentalist churches where community was the dominant chord.
Three major changes can be dated to this period. The demise of the the hereditary elite. The purification of the Democrat Party. The decline in the relative importance of industry in America.
The underlying ground of 21st Century America began during the 1850's. It was the vast immigration of neo-communists from Europe and Eastern Europe (that includes socialists, anarchists, syndicalists, wobblies and the myriad other similar political pathologies). Together they were todays neo-communists.
These immigrants brought the European neo-communist model from Italy, Greece, the Jewish Pale of Settlement in Western Russia and from Prussia. These people were urban settlers in the U.S. and, over the next century, gained control of the world of academic teaching, as well as the movies, theatre, arts and the intellectual milieu. In the 20th century they came to control nearly all of education and the mass media.
Understanding that the ground of the United States in urban, coastal immigrant areas was neo-communist allows us to understand the question of why this group rose to importance after the 1960’s. They didn't emerge. They were already in place when other forces disappeared.
The hereditary elite of America was in control of the United States until the late 1950’s. By 1970 the hereditary elites were weak and unimportant. Replaced by the long underlying ground of neo-communists.
What happened? America had an hereditary elite from its founding. Americans escaped its oppressive power by moving West for most of our history. The elite controlled industry and provided jobs and income to its members via this industrial control.
The end came with World War II where officer status was given to college graduates, a population that was no longer hereditary elite, and to meritocracy in the form of field promotions and the highly technical needs of the military.
By the mid 1950’s the WWII veterans, with meritocratic skills, became the managers of industry and displaced the hereditary elite, destroying the elites ability to give jobs to their own and finance their class.
That absence of hereditary power and dominance also left local political control to the only remaining organized entity in urban areas, the unions. Unions have controlled all urban areas since then with police unions, fire unions and education unions as their power base.
Simultaneously the dominant Democrat Party expelled its racist wing, the Dixiecrats, leaving itself open to slow emerging control of membership by the unassimilated European neo-communists. By the end of the Cold War, 1992, the anti-communists were also removed from the Democrat Party or died like Scoop Jackson, leaving it entirely to the European immigrant neo-communists.
Concurrent with these postwar changes the dominance of industrial firms in commerce was replaced with non-industrial, technical and service firms. The top firms in 1955 were GM, Exxon, U.S. Steel, GE, and Dupont.
By 1970 the top included IBM. ITT and AT&T.
By the 1990’s top corporations were in Silicon Valley and Hollywood. They became wealthy locales with neo-communists in the movie, theatre, Arts, TV and academia. Over the last half century the media became the major spokespeople for neo-communist America as well as for the guilty nouveau riche of Hollywood and Silicon Valley.
The modern political world is:
- the century long creation of our unassimilated European immigrants who brought neo-communism to coastal urban areas all over the country. They never assimilated. They found work in the non-industrial sectors.
- WWII had consequences that significantly replaced the hereditary elite with meritocratic commercial forces in the post war era.
- A replacement of industrial America after the 1980's with the neo-communist dominated non-industrial, technical, service world of commerce.
- And changes in the Democrat Party that first purified itself of the Dixiecrats and then the anti-communist wing, leaving itself open to seizure by the neo-communist zealots.