3/? "Found out" phase after fucking around of capital holding elite. Worldwide ripples, contributing to countries turning socialist or fascist. US got FDR, who, while not socialist, threw labor some big bones and started cleaning up the mess created by robber barons and introducing more regulation.
Just Around The Corner: A Highly Selective History of the Thirties is an excellent book written by someone who was there. This is the beginning of chapter 3. FDR saved the rich from “the French solution,” and they’ve never forgiven him.
We will need to elect a President to clean up the mess left by Trump and his robber barons.
4/? Robber barons did not like that and planned a fascist coup known as Business Plot. Smedley Butler, general they have approached instantly reported them to the government. Nobody got prosecuted. We could've gotten rid of Bush clan back then. Business elite class learned to become more subtle.
Spoken like a Hitler follower.
5/? Then came WW2 and weakening of labor under war conditions. And then came Cold War where communism/socialism became the enemy. And also steady undoing of FDR legacy. And this is where we actually come to "small government". Modern 4th of July has been invented promoting freedom from government.
6/? "E pluribus unum (Out of many, one)" was deemed too commie and got replaced with "In god we trust" in 1956. "Under god" thing got added to pledge of allegiance. Churches, where socialist thought was not uncommon for obvious reasons, got funded towards prosperity gospel.
E pluribus unum was an unofficial motto of the US. It wasn’t replaced as such, and us still on some of our money. Instead, it was superseded when “In god we trust” was adopted as the official motto after religious groups lobbied Congress.
PS I had a coin dealer once tell me that the main religious lobbyist was a “little old lady,” but I’ve never verified that. (My dad was, and I am, a haphazard numismatics enthusiast.)
*is still on some of our money…
7/? The "think tank" system used by the government to get educated opinions from specialists in fields got co-opted by financial interests. NRA got taken over and a new interpretation of 2A got lobbied through. And then there were all of the civil rights movements... Vietnam... all of the backlash
8/8 Abortion... all of the culture wars. Reagan, dem pivot under Clinton, Bush, Obama with backlash and disappointment... The current events have been in motion since at least 1950s and the birth of modern American "freedom" and religious movement. It's surprisingly young.
Ok, let's go over some sources. A lot of stuff should be findable on wikipedia. But my sources that unintentionally(?) shown me the timeline was Behind the Bastards podcast. Episodes: The Second American Civil War You Never Learned About
The Business Plot: When Rich Fascists Almost Took Over America How The Rich Ate Christianity Harlon Carter: the Man Who Militarized the Cops and the NRA Phyllis Schlafly: The Mother of all Culture Wars How Conservatism Won There might be more...
I would add Howard Zinn's "A People's History of the United States" as well. It's more of a 1,000 foot view of everything you wrote but definitely spends a lot of time on the 1880-1930 labor movement and its slow dismantling post-WW2.
New time travel goals unlocked.
I’m not sure what we’re supposed to do to stop it, but we probably should?
That's what gets me about conspiracy theories. People will believe some of the most outlandish BS but will overlook literal historical facts, as you provided.
The conspiracy of conspiracies is def a thing. They muddy the water with flat earth and similar dumb shit so that anything dealing with the new world order is drowned out.
Meanwhile Flock is using AI to reinforce systemic inequality by reporting any “sus” driving 2 the pigs, the government now owns 10% of Intel, and doofuses are like “deregulate! I don’t mind radioactive shrimp!” and people aware are called woke pejoratively or tinfoil hatters.
People who think conspiracies never ever really happen have never heard of Julius Caesar.
Nothing new about what they are doing. The wealthiest of the wealthy being greedy a-holes, willing to watch "the poors" die.
I’m torn between feeling that Santayana quote is overplayed and feeling it needs said more because people are just not getting it.
I actually discuss the Prosperity Gospel stuff quite a bit, because it's so entwined in the religious conservatism that drove Reagan, Heritage Foundation, and current Republicanism. Here's one of the posts where I point this out: bsky.app/profile/clse...
Pullman Riots.