Posted on 08/18/2016 3:19:59 AM PDT by Biggirl
That he is. I follow everything he writes...spot on.
“Banning misogynists would work as well.”
Banning people who think misogyny is a serious fault would work better.
I knew all this. I have since knowing, had a love-hate feeling towards Teddy. He was an a rugged individual and believed in Americans being such. He wanted immigrants to be Americanized.
He also did what you said.
He definitely was a complicated person.
Thanks for the ping. This is a really well-done piece.
I like Teddy, too, as an American character and a high quality individual, but his progressivism was misguided and ultimately led to America’s downfall, soon to be complete.
I used to like Teddy Roosevelt. Then I read more about him. He was certainly a man's man, and had no trouble calling things like they were. But he was a full-on big-government progressive, and started us down this path we're on with progressivism.
Agreed that he started us down the road to progressivism.
But as a man...he wouldn’t like or recognize America today, nor condone much of it, from reading about his likes and dislikes. I believe he would have a change of heart after seeing Obama’s America. Just my $0.02
Woodrow Wilson gave us the FEDERAL INCOME TAX; NOT T.R.!
Teddy was NOT a "progressive" in the way you are insinuating and though he did form the BULL MOOSE PARTY, it wasn't why Wilson won, nor was it anything at all like the #NEVERTRUMP GOPEers of today!
Instead of getting my knowledge of T.R. from lefty propaganda and/or the beyond STUPID Glenn Beck, I learned all about him from my grandfather ( a VERY Conservative man ) who not only lived through that era, but who was a big Teddy Roosevelt supporter; though he was disappointed in him, when he went third party.
Older people should be cherished, since they lived through what younger people call "history" and can explain what really went on back then, as well as helping younger people understand what times were REALLY like back then.
From the Progressing America blog, a treasure of information about the history of the progressive movement:
"One thing that's consistent about progressives: they lie when they speak publicly. They lie in our time, they lied a century ago. It's true that progressives were much more honest about their beliefs a century ago, but you still often have to look in their books and journals and so forth, where they don't think people are looking.
So it is with Theodore Roosevelt, America's first hardcore progressive president. In a book titled "Progressive Principles"(which is a collection of Roosevelt's speeches), he said the following: (Page 48)
Then there's this:
"In 'The "New Freedom" and the Courts', Theodore Roosevelt said the following:
The "New Freedom" is nothing whatever but the right of the strong to prey on the weak, of the big men to crush down the little men, and to shield their iniquity beneath the cry that they are exercising freedom. The "New Freedom" when practically applied turns out to be that old kind of dreadful freedom which leaves the unscrupulous and powerful free to make slaves of the feeble. There is but one way to interfere with this freedom to inflict slavery on others, and that is by invoking the supervisory, the regulatory, the controlling, and directing power of the government precisely as the Progressives last year demanded in their platform, and as I and those like me demanded in our speeches. Every honest and law-abiding business man when once he realizes what the situation actually is will welcome our proposals; and for the wage-worker and the small man in business, the only hope of permanent relief comes through our program."
Lovely sentiments.
Go here to read more: http://progressingamerica.blogspot.com/search?q=teddy+roosevelt The income tax and direct election of Senators was not passed by TR, but they were important parts of the progressive agenda, an agenda TR supported and which passed under Wilson because TR's bull moose party allowed Wilson to win the election. Taft would have won reelection easily with TR interfering. I'd say look it up, but you'd probably just ask your grandfather.
So you'd rather trust some BLOG, on line, than contemporaneous books, news papers, and an actual human being who lived through that era? LOL...fine; everything you read on line is 100% factual. /S
I'd suggest that you read up on the 1912 election ( one interesting book is 1912; WILSON, ROOSEVELT, TAFT, AND DEBS, as well as various other books, as well as contemporaneous written materials, but it appears that you are far too mired in your own opinions.
FYI........Teddy R. spent decades fighting his era's GOPEers; in N.Y. and then in D.C.!
You can NOT judge past times with today's mores and/or ideas. You need to learn that!
LOL. I’m glad you care so much what your grampa thinks, but I don’t. I just trust the facts. I guess that makes me a whippersnapper.
It makes you stupid; too stupid to even pay any attention to what I wrote AND also makes you a barely functioning math illiterate ( since anyone old enough to have admired and voted for Teddy Roosevelt would NOT be still alive today! ); pity that. So do, by all means stay stuck on stupid; kid.
There are known unknowns and there are unknown unknowns. Then there’s you, who doesn’t know what he doesn’t know and doesn’t know it. You just troll away and spout off grampaisms.
You're the one who is the TROLL and you can't even manage to be any good at that either. Bless your heart.
Go to bed, little fella.
It’s way past your bedtime; YOU go to beddy-bye; kid.
I will, soon enough. But you really need your sleep. Grouchy and stupid is no way to go through life, son.
Uneducated, barely literate, and closed minded is no way for YOU to go through life; kid.
Your masochism has reached new heights, I see.
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