Roe V wade. Eminent domain. Obama. Obama, again. And the idiots that elected him twice.
Anything put on the internet in any shape or form can be read by anyone with just a little knowledge. And is there FOREVER.
The irony - old fashion just talking or sending a letter through snail mail may be the most secure.
War of 1812— having the White House sacked and burned by the British was a real bummer.
South seceding from the Union.
Lincoln assasination.
Garfield assasination.
FDR inaugurated to an unprecedented 3rd term.
The sixties. Roe v Wade. The Civil War. FDR. Justice Roberts and Obamacare.
FDR 3rd election
Death of FDR (he deserved to see the end of the war)
election of Carter
election of Clinton twice
OK, I’ll play.
1. The Louisiana Purchase. If that hadn’t happened, America would’ve remained 13 colonies (maybe 14, with Florida). No genocide of native Americans. No conflict over whether slavery can/cannot expand to new territories.
2. The Mexican War. Pretty much for the same reasons as #1.
3. The Civil War. Obvious.
4. The Spanish American War. The beginning of America as an “imperial” power.
5. 1952 Republican Presidential nomination. Robert Taft was America’s last real chance to return to “normalcy”. We blew it.
Bonus: the 1960 presidential election. We elected Kennedy ‘cause he was good looking and charming, proving the old America was gone for good.
Seriously, nothing since then has mattered - it’s all been more of the same.
Trail of Tears, going to war against the south, the income tax, Roosevelt declaring as president for life, JFK, and then the results that followed JFK, Vietnam, unionizing government, roe v wade.
The poison pill that destroyed us was the 1965 Immigration Act, which was enabled by 1800s immigration.
Roseanne Barr’s National Anthem.
Valley Forge
Fredricksburg
Influenza epidemic
Pearl Harbor
Vietnam
October 3, 1965 the Immigration and Nationality Act was signed into law.
2. The Firing on Fort Sumter and the beginning of the Civil War
3. The Winter of 1933-1934 - Unemployment hits 24.9%
4. The Fall of Corregidor - May, 1942 was dark, indeed
5. The enactment of The Great Society legislation in the mid-1960s which ushered in the welfare state
And, for good measure, 6. The Defeat in Vietnam, from which we have yet to recover
March 4, 1913 the first inauguration of Woodrow Wilson.
Not because one man died, but because of the political fallout.
Valley Forge
Lincoln’s assasination
Pearl Harbor
9/11 attacks
2012 presidential election outcome
Leaving our allies (the South Vietnamese) alone and cut off from military aid (by the Democratic congress) to face the retribution of the North Vietnamese.
Worst being #1:
5. Re-election of FDR in ‘36 and ‘40. The inexorable march towards marxism is set in stone.
4. Introduction of slavery to the american colonies. Face it. How many of our longstanding societal problems would have been averted had this never happened.
3. Civil War (directly related to #4). After effects are still reverberating.
2. LBJ’s War on Poverty.
1. Obama ‘12 re-election. The final nail in the coffin.
1) Winter of 1777, Valley Forge
2) Panic of 1837
3) Antietam, 1862
4) Bonus Army, summer 1932
5) 1970s: resignation of Nixon, two oil shocks, fall of Saigon, takeover of U.S. Embassy in Teheran
It’s only 4, but passing amendments 16 through 19 to the constitution put us on a path of destruction that started about 50 years after they were passed (one was fortunately repealed), the 16th and 17th amendments have nearly destroyed this country, and number 19 is very debatable, after women started voting with their “lady parts”. :<
1. September 11, 2001
2. December 7, 1941
3. November 22, 1963
4. April 14, 1865
5. October 29, 1929