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[–]MarkimusNational Socialist 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Unions started declining in power, prestige etc in the 50s due to resistance from capital, union leaders being corrupted by being paid off etc. During the 50s-70s High Finance, through the CIA's cultural/social engineering programs, such as the New Left, Civil Rights, Hippie stuff etc etc created a right that was all about bootstrapping (this came through fully in the 80s) and a left that totally abandoned the working class due to the influence of the New Left and all their new bourgeois lifestyle interests.

Watch 'Century of the Self' by Adam Curtis to get an introduction to this.