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Today's conspiracism stems mainly from the instability of the late 1960s and early '70s--a period of both uncontrolled violence (assassinations, urban riots, political protests turned bloody) and anti-government ideology (the left challenged laws regulating speech, sex, and drug use; the right fought busing, the Warren court, and the welfare state).
This fuels my theory that the Internet is becoming to the late '90s what crack was to the late '80s--a catchall explanation for everything that goes wrong in a particular sector.
But they could also describe Great Britain in the 1920s--a point brought home to me by my vacation reading: the second volume of Robert Skidelsky's biography of John Maynard Keynes, which covers the crucial period from 1920 to 1937.
The basic reason for these, um, tensions is that many "principles" of modern conservatives were developed under political conditions that prevailed in the 1980s--a Republican president, a Democratic Congress, and a liberal federal bench.
The visuals suggest the 1940s--a draft that sent 12 million men into the armed forces and created unprecedented employment opportunities for blacks and women (opportunities that were lost when peace returned and Johnny came marching home); mass migration from the rural South to the industrial North that made Rosie the Riveter a household name and exemplar.