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The Progressive Era’s Dark Social Engineering

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In this episode, we explore the progressive era’s dark social engineering. Imagine a political movement that successfully ended child labor, gave women the right to vote, and basically broke up these massive, tyrannical corporate monopolies. I mean, it sounds incredible, right? Yeah, it sounds like this perfect triumph. But then you have to imagine that exact same movement simultaneously laying the groundwork for systemic racial segregation, strict immigration quotas, and, well, eugenics. Right. You actually don't have to imagine it at all, because that was the American progressive era. It really is one of the most intellectually dizzying periods in history, I think. Oh, absolutely. We're talking about a window of time roughly from the 1890s through the 1920s that just completely rewired how society functions. So today, we are taking a deep dive int ... 
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