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Part One: Phyllis Schlafly: The Mother of all Culture Wars

Behind the Bastards

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The Spirit of Correct Is Not, Not It's Okay

In 1945, Phyllis Stewart won a readers essay contest sponsored by the Washington Daily News declaring the cards are stacked against the enterprising and ambitious person. She's basically talking about like the fact that the government is giving preference to people who aren't like her for employment. The shift in her seems to have started after the end of World War II. Without great global threats to confront the US, the government began to disassemble the various agencies it had created to help build the army necessary to fight World War Two.

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