Posted on 02/23/2022 3:41:51 PM PST by Ozguy1945
When the greatest generation defeated fascism in 1945, the nations of the world got together and over several years drafted the Universal Declaration Of Human Rights in the hope that the human tragedy of fascism would not be repeated.
A broad cross section of 48 nations from around the world voted in favour of the declaration. No nation voted against it. South Africa, Saudia Arabia and 6 Soviet block nations abstained.
Now the western nations which embraced this historic document are far too often ruled by totalitarian fear.
What went wrong?
I don’t get it, big Dan.
(o brother were art thou reference)
What went wrong is human nature. Only Leftists (and the naive ones at that) believe that everyone wants to live together in harmony, and therefore, it is possible.
To them.
And that is the most dangerous naïveté of them all. Because they become Sheep.
And sheep are preyed on by Wolves.
There must be Sheepdogs to protect them.
FDR and his fugly wife were commie sympathizers and were the reason why we’re a socialist nation.
Big Dan replied:
“It’s all about the money, boys!”
You are forgetting about Woodrow Wilson.
Wilson is the negative example of why you don’t place your trust in academics or elect them to high office.
FDR made the world safe for communism.
For many years, I gave FDR props as a wartime leader. However, as I grew up and realized how much permanent damage he inflicted on this country, I have come to view him with contempt.
He (and Wilson) are responsible for much of the disgusting dysfunction we see now, IMO.
Prosperity breeds complacency?
“You are forgetting about Woodrow Wilson.”
You’re ‘forgetting’ Teddy Roosevelt, who was the one who initiated the changes that Woodrow Wilson routinely gets blamed for by historical illiterates like Glenn Beck and Dinesh D’Souza. The income tax amendment, the national monetary commission that led to the Federal Reserve System, both were sponsored by Teddy during his presidency.
It’s not a coincidence that TR ran on the 1912 Progressive Party ticket, splitting the GOP vote between himself and William Howard Taft. Teddy was a progressive, as many Republicans of his day were.
He filled the US government with communists and gave away millions of people in Eastern Europ to communist USSR. FDR did as much for communism as Stalin ever did.
“We have destroyed what could have been a good race of people and
we are about to replace them with mongolian savages and all of Europe
with communism”
General George Patton, Jr.
If someone had tackled Leon Czolgosz before he could fire his pistol, the world would be a vastly different place today.
That could be, although McKinley was also a trust buster like Teddy. Progressive policies might have had a life of their own then regardless of who was in office, but there’s no doubt that Teddy was helping them.
Yep. When Roosevelt was informed that Alger Hiss was a Soviet agent, he told the guy to go f**k himself.
Joseph McCarthy was right on target.
As are many Republicans today. Scratch a career Republican politician and you will find a progressive under that skin. The only true Republicans are those that had a career before politics. Rand Paul is a shining example.
I didn’t forget TR. Wilson is just far more reprehensible, being the racist that he was and a New World Order dictator, at heart.
Funny thing, it turned out that those "alleged communists" all had Soviet code names.
Right! He gave most of Eastern Europe to Stalin.
Where have all the Civil Libertarians gone?
McCarthy has been a personal study of mine. I see a lot of similarities between what happened to him, and what happened to Trump, both at the hands of the Left, black-hearted Republicans, and a Media with an agenda.
Senator Joseph McCarthy should have been lauded as an American hero for what he did. With his life and reputation, he purchased us a few more decades to try to get on the right track, until the domestic enemies of this country decided it was safe to come out of the closet, and look where we are now.
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