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My mom was in high school during the war, and remembers her family having a ration book in which merchants kept track of what was bought per year, with restrictions on quantities, such as only 1 pair of shoes per person and 1 set of tires. If you used up rations in your book, then you could make no more purchases. In other words, America instituted a regulated, planned economy in the 1940s and that was alright by the monied capitalist industrialist powers since it enabled them to fatten themselves on war profits like [[wikipedia:Daddy_Warbucks|Daddy Warbucks]], but after the war such regulation was denounced (by way of [[Propaganda]] of the [[Propaganda#Ad_Council|Ad Council]]) as “socialism” and “communism” that threatened The American Way of life. From WWII, America learned that war was good for the economy (having lifted the American economy out of the Great Depression), and so [[The System]] grew powerful post War by way of Permanent War Economy, making “defense contractors” major employers along with Big [[Government]] bureaucracy, | My mom was in high school during the war, and remembers her family having a ration book in which merchants kept track of what was bought per year, with restrictions on quantities, such as only 1 pair of shoes per person and 1 set of tires. If you used up rations in your book, then you could make no more purchases. In other words, America instituted a regulated, planned economy in the 1940s and that was alright by the monied capitalist industrialist powers since it enabled them to fatten themselves on war profits like [[wikipedia:Daddy_Warbucks|Daddy Warbucks]], but after the war such regulation was denounced (by way of [[Propaganda]] of the [[Propaganda#Ad_Council|Ad Council]]) as “socialism” and “communism” that threatened The American Way of life. From WWII, America learned that war was good for the economy (having lifted the American economy out of the Great Depression), and so [[The System]] grew powerful post War by way of Permanent War Economy, making “defense contractors” major employers along with Big [[Government]] bureaucracy, | ||
We now know that McCarthyism and the whole Red Scare was nothing but a ploy to distract from what was becoming [[The System]] of [[Organized crime]], yet | We now know that McCarthyism and the whole Red Scare was nothing but a ploy to distract from what was becoming [[The System]] of [[Organized crime]], yet the related John Birch Society conspiratorial lying tactic, parlor game of “creeping socialism”, has been played well into the 21st century. Christians especially should have known all along that the stealing of lands of [[First Peoples]] and the exploitation of human [[Labor]] by way of indentured servitude and slavery for no purpose other than for riches, for [[Capitalism#Love_of_Money|Love of Money]], constituted [[Organized crime]], and that such is not only unethical, but immoral from a Christian perspective. True Christianity should be antidote to all such evils, and should have opposed development of [[The System]] instead of aiding and abetting its development as American “Christianity” has over the many decades with its heretical [[wikipedia:Prosperity_theology|Prosperity Gospel]] that posits riches (in Calvinistic Puritan fashion) as being proof of favor from God. This lie was evidenced initially in the [[wikipedia:Conservatism#The_Gilded_Age|The Gilded Age]] and [[wikipedia:Gay_Nineties|Gay Nineties]] in the 19th century continuing to the [[wikipedia:Roaring_Twenties|Roaring Twenties]] in the 20th century, laid low only by the [[wikipedia:Great_Depression|Great Depression]]. The same “Christian” form of Mammon worship was revived post WarII in the 80s Reagan, Bush I and Bush II years, continuing to today.<br> | ||
''See'' — [[Organized_crime#Michael_Woodiwiss|Michael Woodiwiss]], [[Organized_crime#Jonathan_Marshall|Jonathan Marshall]], [[The_System#John_Loftus|John Loftus]], [[Capitalism#American_Foundations|American Foundations]], [[Albert E. Burke]] | ''See'' — [[Organized_crime#Michael_Woodiwiss|Michael Woodiwiss]], [[Organized_crime#Jonathan_Marshall|Jonathan Marshall]], [[The_System#John_Loftus|John Loftus]], [[Capitalism#American_Foundations|American Foundations]], [[Albert E. Burke]] | ||