My only question is this: “How could it be that hundreds of thousands of Americans fought and bled and died – on foreign shores to contain an evil and metastasizing ideology variously called communism, Marxism, socialism, collectivism, or statism, and yet now, just a few years later, we would gaze up at the pinnacle of power in our own country and behold leaders in thrall to essentially the same core ideology we fought and died to protect strangers from?
dear short,
While I, and many others, were doing as you described, it was the individual State’s educational system screwed with and morphed into a federal one by Carter, where now, the federal government decreed what was to be taught/indoctrinated.
It is the educational system, who gathered and protected so many pointed head liberals, who had their dream of Communist Utopia to draw on a blank page, since ‘we could do it better, here, this time’. These were ‘those in the know, and who were ‘we’ to question what they knew or thought’.
In a nutshell, after that, ‘they’ just didn’t give a rodent’s tukus!!
Have you followed much of the writings on banking and secret societies? That regime got us/the west pretty much from the 1890’s to WWII, then I think we contaminated ourselves with various flavors of statists after the war and accelerated the decline.