Not as massive as today, by a long shot. We had privacy, individual rights and personal freedom. We had a pervading sense of no limits on our personal success. Even sympathizers didn’t openly laud communists or fascists.
If anyone could have seen today’s Drudge back in 1950, it would be impossible to convince them that this was going to be their future.
I guess you would have had to have been there.
1950 was nearly 20 years after the New Deal and nearly 10 years after the military-industrial complex ramped up. Tax rates for the wealthy were what, 3 times what they are now?
Yeah, real salad days for individual liberty.