Next to FDR, Woodrow Wilson stands out as my least favorite President. Wilson ushered in the era of a meddlesome federal government and countless violations of individual rights. It’s not surprising to find that he was motivated by the collectivist philosophies that long dominated the field of education and consequently took root in our political systems.
“Wilson attended lectures about how history could be theorized in systematic terms that describe a progressive improvement of the human condition. He became absorbed by the philosophy of Georg Hegel. … In Hegel’s works, personal freedom was framed as a national ideal — only achieved when each individual fit a hierarchy that served the larger whole. Hegel’s ideas from the early 1800s aligned with an idea emergent in intellectual life in the early 1900s: applying biological principles to social and political conditions. Wilson … began to view individuals as cells or cogs within a living organism, which he analogized to the nation. As Wilson’s worldview solidified, he came to believe that the individual rights described in the Constitution, championed by Jefferson and Madison, were not immutable triumphs, but were instead subservient to transcendent ideals of national order and societal hierarchy.”
FDR, Wilson, Carter, Clinton, Brandon despite all their faults did not actively hate the very idea of United states. Hussein Ogabe al-Chicago does and he is the one president who I hate and despise the most. Never before in US history had there been a president who explicitly wanted US to fail.
I would argue that #Brandon doesn’t consistently want much of anything at all besides a diaper change and a pudding cup. He’s progressed from 2019 having many bad moments in mostly normal function to having some good moments in mostly abnormal non-function.
Having a lot of bad moments means you’re incapable of leading a Girl Scout Troop on a cookie drive, much less a nation. These days he can’t lead a two man rush on a three hole out house.
Oh for sure. But when he experiences rare moments of clarity, his explicit objective is not to destroy US and the Western World. Ogabe’s was … and Potato’s is.
Democrats pretty much all seek the destruction of the US. Of the list the only one that really doesn’t belong in the destruction of the US is Carter. He had a real Messianic complex and thus made a hash of things but I think he held his views as being for the betterment of the US. The rest of them want the US to be brought to heel. (Globalist agenda at work).
Yes and no. I don’t believe that, with exception of Ogabe, they seen the destruction of US as their mission. Yes the downfall of US would be the ultimate end of their policies but it was not their explicit objective. For Ogabe and Heinrich Holder the US was the enemy and harming her was their explicit objective. That is a slight difference but an important one. When policies of other democrats harmed America, they would shrug and say “oh well that is the necessary price of progress”. when Ogabe hurt America he shouted “Yes!” and got a boner.
Not much of an argument. Biden does it by accident(?) and Obama does it on purpose.
Biden may have done more damage. Afghanistan for instance.
BHO ain’t running the show. He’s just a puppet like all the rest. He was the chosen one because he could speak. And win.
Someone else is pulling the strings.
Nonsense. He is an evil man with an agenda of destroying US. Don’t underestimate his evil and that of the former first ladyboy.
Yes, he could speak, but he was also articulate, clean, bright and a nice looking guy, according to real Joe.
And just like Biden, his wife ran the show at the end of his presidency refusing to let him vacate the office.
Quite right. No one was allowed to meet with Wilson during his hospitalization. Wilson was a disastrous president who failed at pretty much every initiative he started.
“…he came to believe that the individual rights described in the Constitution, championed by Jefferson and Madison, were not immutable triumphs, but were instead subservient to transcendent ideals of national order and societal hierarchy.”
The German National Socialists did not spring from nothing. It was everywhere.
And here we are on the far side of that, looking at the wreckage and wondering what the h3ll they were thinking.
Have you heard of the American science fiction writer Edward Bellamy? He was Victorian-era, became popular after the Civil War, and was among the first to consider how large-scale industrialisation and militarisation might affect society. He came up with the idea of National Socialism, though of course without the baggage that term acquired later. He meant it radically literally: rule in the interests of society as a whole, with society defined in national terms. In a world of national states, it does make some sense. What he actually made of it, I can’t tell you, I’ve never read him. But Mussolini certainly did.
I believe it was Dario Fo who did an enormous disservice to the world by purporting to write an analytical definition of fascism, and instead listed every aspect of the Italy of Mussolini’s time that he personally hadn’t liked, almost all of which had bugger all to do with actual Fascism. It certainly suits Comrade Stalin to pretend that everything not Marxist is Fascist. The rest of us have to ask: when are we seeing unecessary harm, or indeed deliberate evil, and when are we seeing the necessary consequences of the way we’ve chosen to live? Because the responses should be different.
” As Wilson’s worldview solidified, he came to believe that the individual rights described in the Constitution, championed by Jefferson and Madison, were not immutable triumphs, but were instead subservient to transcendent ideals of national order and societal hierarchy”
You have rights, as long as they don’t get in the way of the “greater good” as expressed by the State.
Which is yet another step towards “All within the State, Nothing Outside the State, Nothing Against the State” which certain members of the democrat party still seem to agree with.
Wilson was a big fan of the Bolsheviks, and ensured they received all kinds of funding. Woodrow Wilson sowed the seeds of WW2, the Cold War, and the excesses of Colonial “Liberation” movements.
Here is Jacob Dreizin dispelling the myth of the US as a “Constitutional” Republic:
http://thedreizinreport.com/2024/07/01/dreizin-wastes-our-constitutional-order-and-lays-down-excommunication/
Wilson was a fascist authoritarian.
You don’t need a link to a nutjob conspiracy site to know this.
You going to provide a counter-argument to Dreizin’s takedown of the US Constitutional fetish, or do you only have ad hominem in your toolkit?
I see tremendous potential for an AI trash-talk generator called Ad Hominem Toolkit.
Wilson, FDR, Carter, Clinton, W, Obammy, Joe Depends, and a host of others all had/have one thing in common: they despise(d) blue collars.
Not W, he made a lot of mistakes but does not despise the common man.
W didn’t hate the common blue collar man. He just couldn’t relate to him.
The others hate the common man and see them as cogs in the machine or a commodity to be used, or a means to an end. They do not see the common folk as their countrymen.
Wilson despised the common black man. He was a segregationist to the end.
Naawww. He couldn’t stand being around the ordinary Joe. You can call it discomfort, or an inability to relate, but the truth is, he was a snob. He was a Conservative from the same kind of mould as Brooks, Frum, and Coyne.
No one has mentioned that Wilson helped install the Federal Reserve, which is the single greatest inflection point in American history, for after that, America became ever more involved in banker wars.