A New Progressive Era? - CounterPunch.org

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

64% : Gilded Age corporate consolidation transformed the U.S. economy and the most spectacular consolidation involved the oil industry.
59% : The company was a trust that controlled the oil industry as well as ancillary industries like railroads and banking.
50% : The great fear of communism became a national religious ethos, the "red scare," during the decades following WW-II.
44% : Equally critical, not unlike the insurgency of the original Progressive era, today's insurgent movement -- often dubbed "progressive" -- is contesting aspects of capitalism, of monopolistic control.
43% : Nevertheless, capitalism went wild during the Progressive Era, its excessive exuberance - greed -- culminated in the Stock Market Crash of 1929, followed by the Great Depression and then WW-II.

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