"You emphasize the importance of FDR and WW2 as essential to the formation of a bond between the government and the people, and to a commitment to the idea of “the right to a decent home and a living wage for every American." But both the FDR presidency and WW2 were one time events whose influence was bound to fade, and their impact appears to have been shallower than you seem to assume. What happened was Americans reverted to the values that dominated before FDR. These were the values of rugged individualism, Social Darwinism, and unregulated capitalism--anti-social and anti-government values with no commitment to maintaining a middle class. America is on track to resemble Mexico both demographically and economically, and there isn’t going to be any heroic generation that will magically come along and reestablish the quaint values of the New Deal. We're just a banana republic with nukes now...." GX
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