I recall talking to an old-World War II guy who I think attended the very early meetings of the League in Adelaide, and was in a social credit group that met from the end of the War, until his death. My brother John, and George Merritt (deceased) was able to save his massive library of social credit material for the League before being thrown out by his kids who were not on side. And I asked him, I being of the next generation, did anyone see this nightmare coming back then? If we had a time machine, could we have alerted people then, and saved the downhill slide from the 1960s? He thought not, as when he was back in Australia on a medical during the war, being wounded, people would ask: “oh, how is the war going?” It was only when it looked like Japan would invade, did the people get really concerned. And, according to my grandfather, who was a World War I vet., when the invasion seemed likely, local cops rounded up all the guns so nobody could fight against the invading army! This story says it all about human compliancy.