Rothschild conspiracy fears grew as their real banking influence waned

Evidence

By the middle of the last century some states had won enough confidence to get along without Jewish backing and financing of government loans. The nationals’ growing consciousness, moreover, that their private destinies were becoming more and more dependent upon those of their countries made them ready to grant the governments more of the necessary credit. Equality itself was symbolized in the availability to all of government bonds which were finally even considered the most secure form of capital investment simply because the state, which could wage national wars, was the only agency which actually could protect its citizens’ properties. From the middle of the nineteenth century on, the Jews could keep their prominent position only because they had still another more important and fateful role to play, a role also intimately linked to their participation in the destinies of the state. Without territory and without a government of their own, the Jews had always been an inter-European element; this international status the nation-state necessarily preserved because the Jews’ financial services rested on it. But even when their economic usefulness had exhausted itself, the inter-European status of the Jews remained of great national importance in times of national conflicts and wars. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 101 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

I found some of my answer in our increasingly rigid class structure, one that leaves many people feeling locked into their circumstances—in contrast with what we’ve been taught is the American dream—and desperate to find someone to blame. I found it in rising disenfranchisement, a feeling many people have that they are shut out of systems of power, pounding furiously at iron doors that will never open to admit them. I found it in a frustratingly opaque healthcare system, a vanishing social safety net, a political environment that seizes cynically on a renewed distrust of the news media. — Anna Merlan, Republic of Lies, 33 (#expands, via linked claim)

Compared with anti-Catholicism and anti-Masonry, large-scale anti- Semitism was a latecomer to America, ignited only by the mass immigration that began in the late nineteenth century. Once introduced, however, it was not inhibited by the fact that Judaism was neither a secret society nor a centrally organized religious community. Seymour Lipset and Earl Raab, in their study of right-wing extremism, remark that “they had no Pope and no Vatican, but a special aura of secrecy and intrigue deeply imbedded in the folklore of Christian civilization.” This perception, developed over centuries of ghettoization, helps explain why, by the turn of the twentieth century, Jews were scapegoats for other immigrant groups as well as the objects of scorn on the part of native-born elites. — Michael Barkun, A Culture of Conspiracy, 616 (#qualifies-own, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Anti-Semitism needed no organizational secret society because folklore supplied it — Michael Barkun, A Culture of Conspiracy: Apocalyptic…, 616; Rooted conspiracy ideas gain legitimacy that novel inventions lack — Michael Barkun, A Culture of Conspiracy: Apocalyptic…, 344; Conspiracy surges track rigid class structure and felt disenfranchisement — Anna Merlan, Republic of Lies, 33 (+3 more)

Related

• American radicals were especially obsessed with financial conspiracies centered on the Rothschilds. (similarity 0.84)
• Belief in Rothschild power grew even as the family’s real influence declined. (similarity 0.81)
• Anti-Semitism needed no organizational secret society because folklore supplied it (similarity 0.79)
• Growing national credit pools displaced the Jews’ exclusive financial role (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Growing national credit pools displaced the Jews’ exclusive financial role #corroborates (0.85) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 101
• Conspiracy surges track rigid class structure and felt disenfranchisement #expands (0.75) — Anna Merlan, Republic of Lies, 33