Friday, November 04, 2016
Hypothesis
Still wondering about this........ (I guess this is actually Constants And Variables #52.)
Why did Wilson's globalist tyranny fade so quickly? His bureaucracies went away instead of morphing and growing in normal Parkinson form. Ferocious globalism took over ALL media in 1918, and disappeared from ALL media by 1920.
WW1 itself led to a sense of futility among Europeans, but doesn't explain the American change. Our participation was short and comparatively small, with a 'manageable' number of combat deaths. We weren't bombed or damaged.
Putting it another way: Why were ordinary Americans able to reject the government's attempt to continue and expand globalist tyranny? Why are they NOT able to reject it now?
Why was FDR able to turn the country back toward sanity, while Euro leaders successfully pushed Germany and Italy back into expansionist insanity?
Hypothesis: Prohibition.
No other country tried prohibition. It was uniquely American.
You can see the difference in American vs Euro movies in the late '20s and early '30s. Americans are wild and rebellious. Criminals are glorified and authorities are corrupt. Brit and Kraut movies have the same clothing and hair and cars, but there's no air of rebellion, no hatred of government.
Prohibition spread its bad taste onto all other aspects of 1919. Progressive puritanism and Wilsonian globalism shared the bitterness and rejection.
Labels: Asked and sort of answered, Constants and Variables
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