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Woodrow Wilson "The Third Party" Speech (1912) [AUDIO RESTORED]
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| September 24, 1912
| Woodrow Wilson
Posted on 06/08/2022 9:23:25 AM PDT by ProgressingAmerica
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This is interesting, he is calling out Theodore Roosevelt's Bull Moose party as a party of socialism and centralized planning. Once President though, Wilson carried out the Bull Moose program.
To: ProgressingAmerica
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.
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posted on
06/08/2022 9:26:21 AM PDT
by
DugwayDuke
(Most pick the expert who says the things they agree with.)
To: ebshumidors; nicollo; Kalam; IYAS9YAS; laplata; mvonfr; Southside_Chicago_Republican; celmak; ...
If anybody wants on/off the revolutionary progressivism ping list, send me a message Progressives do not want to discuss their own history. I want to discuss their history. Summary: Progressivism hasn't changed much in substance. Only the window dressing is more colorful.
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posted on
06/08/2022 9:26:43 AM PDT
by
ProgressingAmerica
(A man's rights rest in 3 boxes. The ballot box, jury box and the cartridge box.- Frederick Douglass)
To: DugwayDuke
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.
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posted on
06/08/2022 9:27:46 AM PDT
by
ProgressingAmerica
(A man's rights rest in 3 boxes. The ballot box, jury box and the cartridge box.- Frederick Douglass)
To: ProgressingAmerica
One progressive accusing another progressive of the things that all progressives intend to do.
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posted on
06/08/2022 9:32:48 AM PDT
by
Boogieman
To: ProgressingAmerica
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.
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posted on
06/08/2022 9:33:25 AM PDT
by
Flick Lives
(The CDC. Brought to you by Pfizer)
To: ProgressingAmerica
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.
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posted on
06/08/2022 9:34:00 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
To: ProgressingAmerica
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posted on
06/08/2022 9:34:19 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: DugwayDuke
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posted on
06/08/2022 9:35:21 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
To: Flick Lives
Great synopsis.
Wilson was pure evil and the worst president in history (so far).
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posted on
06/08/2022 9:38:06 AM PDT
by
Reddy
( B.O. stinks)
To: Flick Lives
AND The Sedition Act curtailing free speech.
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posted on
06/08/2022 9:43:51 AM PDT
by
gattaca
To: ProgressingAmerica
This is interesting, he is calling out Theodore Roosevelt's Bull Moose party as a party of socialism and centralized planning. Once President though, Wilson carried out the Bull Moose program.
Are you sure that Wilson wasn't calling out T.R. for not being left-authoritarian enough? I'm not a historian, but that's how it reads to me. (And consider how Wilson's presidency turned out...)
To: Flick Lives
So it appears Biden has been following in his foot steps.
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posted on
06/08/2022 9:47:05 AM PDT
by
Vaduz
( )
To: DugwayDuke
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.
To: DugwayDuke
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. 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.
To: Flick Lives
"...the UN. An institution which crippled Germany and ultimately pushed that country toward Hitler and WW2."
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.
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posted on
06/08/2022 10:13:04 AM PDT
by
Tell It Right
(1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
To: Flick Lives
"Wilson
may actually be was *the* worst president in American history."
Fixed it for ya.
Without a doubt.
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posted on
06/08/2022 10:16:48 AM PDT
by
Macoozie
(Handcuffs and Orange Jumpsuits)
To: DugwayDuke
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. You can indirectly thank Teddy for challenging Taft because Taft wasn't "progressive" enough, thereby helping to elect Wilson.
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posted on
06/08/2022 10:18:11 AM PDT
by
Sans-Culotte
(11/3-11/4/2020 - The USA became a banana republic.)
To: Sans-Culotte
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.
To: ProgressingAmerica
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posted on
06/08/2022 11:52:46 AM PDT
by
sauropod
(What we’re living through is not an unintentional accident: it’s the American Holodomor.)
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