Bear with me before calling ASB, because I think this is interesting. On the brink of the economic collapse of 1929, things looked like they had never been better for the United States and the Republican party. The Republicans controlled the White House and both chambers of Congress. They had overwhelmingly won the presidency throughout the 1920s. The middle class had expanded and it was prospering, morals were open and libertine (not with everyone), and president Hoover was declaring the end of poverty in America was in sight.
That all came crashing down with the Depression. The politics would be taken over by the Liberal New Dealers and the Democratic party. Cultural mores in many ways became conservative once again. And everyone strapped down and worked to live on what they could scrape by. The Depression lead into World War, and that period really stole the youthful vibrancy of the United States, and the youth of a generation. From 1929 until 1945, everyone lived a harder life. And after the war, the interest was in keeping quiet, conforming, and enjoying the economic prosperity and peace. At least in my opinion, the 1960s was a return to the cultural experimentation and openness that was unfolding in the 1920s. Certainly not politically.
What would be the logical path for how things would unfold and evolve if America did not see the Depression and things continued to roar into the 1930s?
That all came crashing down with the Depression. The politics would be taken over by the Liberal New Dealers and the Democratic party. Cultural mores in many ways became conservative once again. And everyone strapped down and worked to live on what they could scrape by. The Depression lead into World War, and that period really stole the youthful vibrancy of the United States, and the youth of a generation. From 1929 until 1945, everyone lived a harder life. And after the war, the interest was in keeping quiet, conforming, and enjoying the economic prosperity and peace. At least in my opinion, the 1960s was a return to the cultural experimentation and openness that was unfolding in the 1920s. Certainly not politically.
What would be the logical path for how things would unfold and evolve if America did not see the Depression and things continued to roar into the 1930s?