Posted on 06/08/2022 9:23:25 AM PDT by ProgressingAmerica
There is a new party, which it is difficult to characterize because it is made up of several elements. As I see it, it is made up three elements in particular. The first consists of those Republicans whose consciences and whose stomachs could not stand what the regular Republicans were doing. Added to this element are a great many men and women of noble character and of elevated purpose who believe that this combination of forces may, in the future, bring them out on a plane where they can accomplish those things which their hearts have so long desired.
I have no word of criticism for them. Then there is a third element in the new party of which the less said the better. To discuss it would be interesting, only if I could mention names, and I have forbidden myself that indulgence. We have in this party two things. A political party and a body of social reformers. Mr. Roosevelt puts forth an admirable platform of what he would like to do for the people. But how is he going to do it? He proposes in his platform not to abolish monopoly, but to take it under the legal protection of the government and to regulate it. In other words, to take the very men into partnership who have been making it impossible to carry out these great programs by which all of us wish to help the people.
It is perfectly idle to talk of doing things when your hands are tied for you, so long as the men who now control the industry of the country continue to control it. Now we don’t want to disturb the industry of the country; we are not here to destroy the industry which these men have developed. But we are here to destroy the control over the industry of other people which these men have established and which makes it impossible that we should give ourselves a free hand in the service of the people. There are two programs. The Democratic program is this – to see to it that competition is so regulated that the big fellow cannot put the little fellow out of business, for he has been putting the little fellow out of business for the last half generation.
The program of the third party is to take these big fellows that have been putting the little fellow out of business and regulate them, saying, "that is all right--you have put the other fellows out of business--but we are not going to put the little fellows back where you destroyed them. We’re going to adopt you and say run the business of the country, but run it in the way we tell you to run it." The only thing you have to choose between therefore is this: Are you going to have fresh brains injected into the business of this country and the best men win, or are you going to make the present combinations permanent.
You can thank Wilson for direct election of senators, income taxes, and a plethora of other progressive causes. Wilson did more to harm the nation than practically any other president.
All if the items you listed are the fault of Theodore Roosevelt and Taft, not Wilson.
Wilson was a monster, that’s definitely true. But we simply look foolish blaming the wrong progressive.
One progressive accusing another progressive of the things that all progressives intend to do.
Wilson may actually be *the* worst president in American history. A flat out racist, he segregated blacks within Federal positions, thus ensuring a two-tier system would be perpetuated. He promised no involvement in WW1, then got us into WW1, then proceeded to outlaw any speech or protest by anyone opposed to the war. He then orchestrated the disastrous League of Nations, a precursor to one-world government and the UN. An institution which crippled Germany and ultimately pushed that country toward Hitler and WW2.
By “men and women of noble character and of elevated purpose who believe they can accomplish those things which their hearts have so long desire,” Wilson is referring to his fellow pinkos.
And there is nothing “noble” or “elevated” about them.
Evil man.
Great synopsis.
Wilson was pure evil and the worst president in history (so far).
AND The Sedition Act curtailing free speech.
So it appears Biden has been following in his foot steps.
On direct Senator elections....this goes back to the magazine Harper’s Weekly, which made a continual ‘talk’ for months about the corruption going on in various state capitals, and how ‘promises’ were made to get so-and-so a Senate job. Nationally, that news magazine pumped up the topic and it was pretty easy to get this focused as a Constitutional item.
Read the US Constitution. The president has no role in amending the it. He may have strongly supported the 16th and 17th amendments, but he had no role in their passage. You can blame 2/3'rds of the members of both the House and Senate plus the 3/4'ths of the state legislatures for that.
While I agree wholeheartedly with your assessment of Woodrow Wilson, I respectfully disagree with your reason for the cause of WW2. The reason Germany started WW2 (not counting the Japanese portion in 1937) is because not enough German citizens died in the prior WW1 Germany made. The reason Germany used Ferdinand's assassinations to make the temporary face-saving battles into a big WW1 is because not enough Germans (Prussians) died in the prior Franco-Prussian war Prussia started.
The reason Germany hasn't started WW3 is because in the WW2 Germany started, over 6 million German citizens were killed. In other words, for the first time Germany's opponents brought the horrors of war to Germany. That's the only thing that stops a war mongering culture hell bent on killing masses of civilians.
Fixed it for ya.
Without a doubt.
You can indirectly thank Teddy for challenging Taft because Taft wasn't "progressive" enough, thereby helping to elect Wilson.
Teddy would have been a hell of a lot better than Wilson. Seems like anyone who goes after the GOP gets taken down and replaced by a real progressive and a stooge for inner circle/ deep state. Yes, they had that problem back then too. The GOP track record. They hated Teddy, Reagan, Trump and worked to undermine all of them.
Bkmk
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