Reply #6: Here is the way I see it:

[LiberalLoner]

The generation that were grownups during the great depression understood very well why unions were important and why the common good, rather than greed, was to be revered.

Their children rebelled. Children often do rebel. Each generation rebels against their parents.

My grandmother was from that first generation. She was very much a liberal and a Democrat and believed in unions.

My father was her child. He rebelled against the idea of unions, the idea of the common good, even against the idea of marriage and being a decent member of society.

My father's generation has voted right-wing ever since they were young adults. (Not every single one of them, but ENOUGH of them.) When my grandmother's generation largely died off, my father's generation took over.

Now, 30 years later, another big change is about to happen. My father's generation (he is in his late 70's now) is getting close to dying. The generations following his are generally more liberal as a whole.

So the plutocracy is pushing for all of it while they still can. Trying to establish the dictatorship, before all of my father's generation dies off and they lack the electoral numbers.