A minor pedantic correction, which hope will not overtly annoy you.
To the best of my knowledge, McCarthy went after military officers and the civil service not the media. Attempts to root out communists within Hollywood were about 7 or 8 years earlier with the The House Select Committee on Un-American Activities. Which was originally an anti-fascist subcommittee to root out fascism within pre-war America.
Though during interwar years before the backlash to Communism The chairman of that committee was a now known Soviet confidential informant. As confirmed by the Soviet archives opening up. It's very minor and most people won't notice it.
It's stilla good piece overall, but if you do feel like you need to correct it. I will do one better and suggest the least intrusive correction. Just substitute the word McCarthy with McCarthyism and with that you'll only get a slight grumble from us. Nitpicky history major types.
I don't buy that the 80s was a conservative backlash. It was a high point for Reagan/Thatcher era unbridled capitalism, but cultural conservatism was not really on the table other than some minor nods to it where necessary for their coalition. And I'm not quite sure cultural conservatism is alive now, although perhaps it has a better chance than the 80s. The 80s were a time filled with gender-bending bands being promoted, homosexuality becoming acceptable in the mainstream, etc.
The 80s was the start of globalism and the rich hoovering up British assets for pennies on the £ plus centralisation of power. Thatcher has a lot to answer for.
I think you're definitely onto something. Globalism & Multiculturalism were firmly taking root in the 1980s and it was the *last* decade (a peak) that was, to a substantive degree & superficially, largely “normal”. Things really went south in the 1990s and, for Britain, that came to a head in 1997 with Blair. Also, the fertility rate collapsed as a majority of women worked full-time in the 1990s, all across the West.
They had to or at least the normalisation of women in the workplace, eased the need for women and essentially families to latterly become reliant on their income. Due in no small part to the increase in the money supply through excessive govt spending and borrowing. The apex consequence was the highly disproportionate increase in house prices that in essence could only be afforded by 2 household incomes, rendering women in the workplace essential and no longer an option!!
Ultimately, now, two incomes is a requirement to possibly be able to afford the average home, which is extremely sad. Additionally, the vast majority of workplaces still do not help women substantively has they grow their family; with remote-work technology, this should be far easier to accommodate.
A minor pedantic correction, which hope will not overtly annoy you.
To the best of my knowledge, McCarthy went after military officers and the civil service not the media. Attempts to root out communists within Hollywood were about 7 or 8 years earlier with the The House Select Committee on Un-American Activities. Which was originally an anti-fascist subcommittee to root out fascism within pre-war America.
Though during interwar years before the backlash to Communism The chairman of that committee was a now known Soviet confidential informant. As confirmed by the Soviet archives opening up. It's very minor and most people won't notice it.
It's stilla good piece overall, but if you do feel like you need to correct it. I will do one better and suggest the least intrusive correction. Just substitute the word McCarthy with McCarthyism and with that you'll only get a slight grumble from us. Nitpicky history major types.
Have a wonderful day professor!
I don't buy that the 80s was a conservative backlash. It was a high point for Reagan/Thatcher era unbridled capitalism, but cultural conservatism was not really on the table other than some minor nods to it where necessary for their coalition. And I'm not quite sure cultural conservatism is alive now, although perhaps it has a better chance than the 80s. The 80s were a time filled with gender-bending bands being promoted, homosexuality becoming acceptable in the mainstream, etc.
The 80s was the start of globalism and the rich hoovering up British assets for pennies on the £ plus centralisation of power. Thatcher has a lot to answer for.
I think you're definitely onto something. Globalism & Multiculturalism were firmly taking root in the 1980s and it was the *last* decade (a peak) that was, to a substantive degree & superficially, largely “normal”. Things really went south in the 1990s and, for Britain, that came to a head in 1997 with Blair. Also, the fertility rate collapsed as a majority of women worked full-time in the 1990s, all across the West.
They had to or at least the normalisation of women in the workplace, eased the need for women and essentially families to latterly become reliant on their income. Due in no small part to the increase in the money supply through excessive govt spending and borrowing. The apex consequence was the highly disproportionate increase in house prices that in essence could only be afforded by 2 household incomes, rendering women in the workplace essential and no longer an option!!
Ultimately, now, two incomes is a requirement to possibly be able to afford the average home, which is extremely sad. Additionally, the vast majority of workplaces still do not help women substantively has they grow their family; with remote-work technology, this should be far easier to accommodate.