As long as possible. For me it's easy: King gets beaten at the 1919 Liberal leadership convention.
For me it's easy as well: Just keep everything as per OTL, and voila, America is definitely not a welfare state.
get rid of the industrial revolution or insure every industrical baron ever had a heart of gold both of which are asb.
You do understand that there was a reason for the reforms right? That they didn't come about because of some grand conspiracy but because of inequalities that existed at the time that outstripped the abilities of private charities to compensate for the poverty and misery.
Seven legged the united states wouldn't last through 1938 in such a situation.
Oh I forgot make it so people are able to just not have a drive to improve their economic livelihood.
I'd go as far as saying that you'd have to butterfly away religion as well as 'being kinder to your fellow man' forms a large part of their teachings as well. In fact in the UK it was the church caring for the poor and 'dole-ing' out the money to them in times of need that inspired a lot of what the welfare state does today.
Best way to do this would probably to just get big business into government and have it refuse to make any concessions to anyone.
Blaine becomes President instead of Grover Cleveland; he is deeply in the pocket of major corporations. Big Business has simple ideas for what they want: No Unions, no wasteful taxes on helping the less fortunately, no government aid for disasters, High Tariffs and nearly total isolation from the world at large.
Government takes a turn away from popular rule towards oligophy. Hired Guns, like the Pinkertons, simply have open license to gun down strikers in the streets. This arrangement is unstable, and so corporations simply co-operate to ensure that they will hang together, or they will surely hang apart.
There's no reason to ensure that people hurt on the job get any kind of medical care. Screw them. No reason that factories can't hire "jolly elves" to work in their factories--can't their parent's have more children?
After Blaine, people like Roscoe Conkling and perhaps even CEOs themselves can take up the mantle. President J.P. Morgan, President Henry Ford. Each one more of the same, as democracy dies to the face of endless money and control.
The Proletariat would be impoverished, hungry, and left entirely powerless. The US Chamber of Commerce, the true nexus of American Power for well over a century, cares nothing for human rights abuses or environmental destruction. Why worry that Baltimore or Detroit is an unlivable hell-hole? Most of the important people of the United States live far away from those places where those simian workers live, therefore its cheaper not to care.
The idea of even providing basic aid to the needy falls to equally hard hearted religious institutions, which stress the Gospel of Wealth as a founding credo. Giving people access to basic medicine and sanitation would probably increase their lifespans and quality of life, but that would cost precious tax dollars that would reduce profits.
Banning Child Labor, Abortion and Infanticide, and proposing basic education for men (not for women) is beyond the scope of this one party system. The idea that the less fortunate might actually need help as opposed to conveniently dying and being replaced by someone cheaper is taboo in Washington, itself free of the intense smog, acid rain and trash that wreck much of the country. Social Security? This USA has privatized the post office...
Best way to do this would probably to just get big business into government and have it refuse to make any concessions to anyone.
Blaine becomes President instead of Grover Cleveland; he is deeply in the pocket of major corporations. Big Business has simple ideas for what they want: No Unions, no wasteful taxes on helping the less fortunately, no government aid for disasters, High Tariffs and nearly total isolation from the world at large.
Government takes a turn away from popular rule towards oligophy. Hired Guns, like the Pinkertons, simply have open license to gun down strikers in the streets. This arrangement is unstable, and so corporations simply co-operate to ensure that they will hang together, or they will surely hang apart.
There's no reason to ensure that people hurt on the job get any kind of medical care. Screw them. No reason that factories can't hire "jolly elves" to work in their factories--can't their parent's have more children?
After Blaine, people like Roscoe Conkling and perhaps even CEOs themselves can take up the mantle. President J.P. Morgan, President Henry Ford. Each one more of the same, as democracy dies to the face of endless money and control.
The Proletariat would be impoverished, hungry, and left entirely powerless. The US Chamber of Commerce, the true nexus of American Power for well over a century, cares nothing for human rights abuses or environmental destruction. Why worry that Baltimore or Detroit is an unlivable hell-hole? Most of the important people of the United States live far away from those places where those simian workers live, therefore its cheaper not to care.
The idea of even providing basic aid to the needy falls to equally hard hearted religious institutions, which stress the Gospel of Wealth as a founding credo. Giving people access to basic medicine and sanitation would probably increase their lifespans and quality of life, but that would cost precious tax dollars that would reduce profits.
Banning Child Labor, Abortion and Infanticide, and proposing basic education for men (not for women) is beyond the scope of this one party system. The idea that the less fortunate might actually need help as opposed to conveniently dying and being replaced by someone cheaper is taboo in Washington, itself free of the intense smog, acid rain and trash that wreck much of the country. Social Security? This USA has privatized the post office...