Sitting here this morning watching the old television version of Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath and am reminded that the Great Depression may have had much to do with so many Americans jumping on the leftists' hay wagon. Many Americans during the 1930s had a deep abiding faith in God but were led astray by leftist political agendas which then hid its hatred of religion in order to draw new members. In the old socialist movie, the producer was forced to deal with the Joad family's minimal religious faith until such time as he could supplant it with FDR's Farm Security Administration Camp program at the end. As our nation has grown more secular, leftists no longer have to disguise their hatred of religion to draw membership. They are now more free to directly attack religion in society and a new remake of the old depressing Steinbeck movie could deal from its onset with government as society's savior.
Muleteam1
In the late 80s I read The Grapes of Wrath in the Philippines. I immediately became a communist and subsequently an atheist.
it took several years until I was born again and immediately repudiated both in my life.
Steinbeck was a communist.