APA went off the rails in the early 70’s...
Are they the ones who removed homosexuality from the DSM under threats of violence, or was that the other APA?
Yup, 1973. When they removed homosexuality from the list of mental illnesses not due to sound science, but due to political and social pressure. And who says the right is anti-science ?
From https://www.resoundingbooks.org/blog/content/full.php?y=2016&m=3&d=3
...French philosophy was not the only thing European that fascinated Hall. He was attracted to theories on the racial memory of Das Volk, became an admirer of German authoritarianism, developed a taste for Social Darwinism, was an early proponent of selective breeding and forced sterilization of undesirables, and came to believe that excessive individualism was bad for the U.S. Had he lived a few years longer he could have seen similar pseudo-scientific theories of racial eugenics, romanticism, social efficiency, and anti-intellectualism acted out on a national stage.
While Hall’s beliefs make him sound like a kook, he was no isolated nut; he was a hugely influential character and central to the development of psychology and educational theory in the U.S.
He served as Professor of Psychology and Pedagogics at Johns Hopkins University (1882-88), was president of Clark University (1889-1920), became the first president of the American Psychological Association in 1892, and was a featured NEA speaker throughout the early 1900s. Hall and his students, Henry Goddard and Lewis Terman, collaborated with Edward Thorndike in establishing the field of educational psychology along Wundtian lines.
Wilhelm Wundt (1832-1920) established Europe’s first experimental psychology laboratory at the University of Leipzig in 1878.
Considered the founder of structural psychology, he personally trained many of the world’s first psychologists. Wundt believed people are animals “devoid of spirit and self-determinism”[3]; his work inspired the Behaviorism of Pavlov, Watson, and Skinner...
I don't think it's much of a leap to believe 19th century progressivism introduced by eastern European immigrants and boosted by years of the adjustable democrat party has lead US to what we are dealing with today.
It's all playing out so nicely for the string pullers. No problem staying on their rails at all. Let's not forget, their rails are the only rails that count.