[donna]

My theory is that the soldiers came home from WWII and built a big government which they ran with military precision and then retired without passing on their skills. TV was invented, God was removed and mom left the home. All the kids got fat and sad and scared to do anything.

[HLPhat]

>>soldiers came home from WWII and built a big government which they ran with military precision and then retired without passing on their skills.

 

I think that's a small part of it.

 

But a larger influenece can be seen to have been rendered from a segment of the culture who gamed the whole process - before and after.

 

Ike saw it:

[Eisenhower's "Military-Industrial Complex" Speech
Origins and Significance]?
US National Archives 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gg-jvHynP9Y

 

And so did others like Trump Campaign insider [and Nixon Dirty Trickster] Roger Stone:

http://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=roger+stone+bush+crime+family

With the benefit of hind-sight, certain unsavory characteristics that always accompany human nature begin to become self-evident.

"AND THE TRUTH SHALL MAKE YOU FREE"

[ClearCase_guy]

Not a bad theory.