It all goes back to women's rights. Giving women the right to vote in 1918 was what enabled the expansion of the state in the 1940s, culminating in the federal SJWism of the 1960s. Things really became difficult after that. Putting women and later immigrants in the workforce intensified competition for jobs, put downward pressure on wages and made it so you could no longer support a family on a single income.
It all goes back to women's rights. Giving women the right to vote in 1918 was what enabled the expansion of the state in the 1940s, culminating in the federal SJWism of the 1960s. Things really became difficult after that. Putting women and later immigrants in the workforce intensified competition for jobs, put downward pressure on wages and made it so you could no longer support a family on a single income.