America fundamentally changed after WWII. We were warned about the advance of the Military/Industrial Complex, but it really was too late by that time.
The greatest generation came home from their war, and took a decidedly (for the era) liberal stance. Military intervention anywhere in the world became acceptable to support our economy. Then military intervention became necessary to support our military interventions.
24/7 manufacturing, women in the workplace, and liberal educators essentially raising our children. The bonds of our society began to dissolve.
I've mentioned it several times, but I feel like 1953, and our clandestine action in deposing the president of Iran was a major turning point in our history. We overturned a democratic nation's government to position ourselves and our allies strategically better in the world oil market.
We compounded that error by putting an incompetent, insecure, and cruel autocrat in place, and supplied him with the means to viciously suppress any and all dissent from those he ruled.
All in all we're ahead on points but the game board has tilted against us and that tilt gets steeper as the stakes get higher.
