Modern conservatism ascension started in the late 60s as a white backlash to the Civil Rights Movement, which demanded improved living conditions, including more wealth and community control. This frightened/shocked white man (“we can let them Negroes have some autonomy and self-determination…we'll lose control.”). Anyway, the private class appealed to conservatism to reassert the supremacy of white authority and its exclusive claim to power and wealth (makes me think of the time when Senator Goldwater ran for the presidency in which he was against the Civil Rights act).
Modern conservatism ascension started in the late 60s as a white backlash to the Civil Rights Movement, which demanded improved living conditions, including more wealth and community control. This frightened/shocked white man (“we can let them Negroes have some autonomy and self-determination…we'll lose control.”). Anyway, the private class appealed to conservatism to reassert the supremacy of white authority and its exclusive claim to power and wealth (makes me think of the time when Senator Goldwater ran for the presidency in which he was against the Civil Rights act).