Further, just as the American Monomyth—along with all cult ideology—leads to autocratic thinking, so did eugenics. Leaders of the crusade found naïve “the popular notion that everyone ought to participate in government.” They found unscientific and dangerous the hope that “the American environment and education would open opportunities so that even the lowliest could rise.”45 Ultimately, even if unconsciously, the eugenics movement was about power and not wanting to share it.
