RealClearPolicy - Detroit and the Special-Interest State:
"Then, under the pressure of the war, the Cold War, the Great Society, environmentalism, the civil-rights revolution, feminism, and unionism, the principles crumbled.
Indeed, to a large degree the doctrines reversed.
The job of government became not to pass laws for the general welfare, but to identify particular worthy groups and empower them.
Benefits were bestowed on special interests and routinely fed back into the political system to maintain the power of the bestowers.
And government was regarded as the prime mover of every social and economic system from the economy to health care to agriculture to telecommunications.
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