In order of evil
1. Roe v. Wade
2. Legalizing slavery in the 13 new US states. I understand why, but still a dark moment in US history.
3. Genocide of Indians. Again, I understand it was just tit for tat vs true savage people, but somewhat a dark era of US history. We murdered a lot of Indian women and children.
4. Sherman’s scorched earth policy. The man was a truly evil fiend, even if his strategy proved brilliant. Sherman was a cold-hearted gutter punk.
5. The entire 1960’s counter culture and communist infiltration that ultimately doomed America.
Bonus round:
1968 Gun Control Act. The beginning of the end of Freedom in America.
Bonus round 2:
Baby Bush creates Homeland Security and especially TSA. If the 1968 GCA is the beginning of the end for freedom, then TSA/Homeland Security is the end of the beginning of Tyranny.
The Civil War
The Depression
WWII
Roe vs. Wade
Obama’s 2008 election
Really interesting. Virtually everyone cites Roe v. Wade. It is emerging as a real linchpin for the decline of what was a great country.
I am not as scholarly as the esteemed FReepers on this thread, but I’d put in descending order:
1. Acceptance/legalization of slavery. The bane of our existence. The basic denial of the essence of our Declaration of Independence and Constitution. The terrible defect of our otherwise laudable history. Repercussions continue today.
2. Roe v Wade. We are no longer an overall decent moral people. It saps my pride of being an American, although I still am, due mostly to the many great Americans who have stood for life.
3. The Civil War, specifically, that the southern states seceded rather than agree to end slavery. We’d probably still have states rights if we hadn’t so tenaciously hung on to our “freedom” to own and abuse people. So many great men lost.
4. FDR’s Great Society - the bulwark of the social welfare state.
5. Tough to choose, so many to choose from, but I’ll go with the Kelo decision, which knocked the guts out of private property rights. The right to own property is an essential freedom which appears to depend now upon the whim of the bureaucrat.
When whites became Borg.
Creation of Socialist Insecurity, aka Social Security
The Supreme Court decision permitting eminent domain seizureof land simply cuz the local gov’t could GET MORE TAX REV if the land were developed (developer later went bankrupt).
Reelection of GayMuzzie
Roe v. Wade
Gun Control Act of 1968
FDR 3rd Term
1965 immigration act. Flood a nation with unassimilated Third Worlders, get a Third World nation. Anybody want to seriously argue we aren’t heading down that path culturally? A large segment has no appreciation for the founding principles simply because they came from the hated white male. They will never even grasp the outlines of the liberty they have just cast aside. It’s simply beyond their experience. Their chains will rest lightly indeed; they earnestly sought them out.
1. Valley Forge. We were that close to going under.
2. Secession of the Southern states. The poison of slavery kept that from being settled as it might have been and made it inevitable from well before the ratification of the Constitution.
3. The first "progressive" era that brought us the 16th amendment (income tax, 1909) and the 17th (direct election of senators, 1912) and would end with the disastrous social engineering of the 18th amendment (prohibition, 1917).
4. The second re-election of FDR. How bad was it? The 22nd Amendment was passed in 1947 to prohibit it ever happening again, passed during his successor's administration. It has never been challenged to my knowledge but it shortly will be.
5. The Long March Through The Institutions that has brought us our current Left-indoctrinated ruling class in academia, media, and government. Maybe 1965-present. These are the people who are destroying our country.
1. Roe v wade. 50+ million blood sacrifices to Molech, devaluing human life and all life in general. God is judging us.
2. The incorrect idea concept of separation of church and state, misrepresenting what Jefferson really said about where the wall is - at the federal level, not the state govt level.
3. The incorrect concept that this is not a Christian nation, founded as such. Documents and writing of the leaders and founders prove it. As well as the founding documents.
4. The infiltration of socialists and communists into government and the legal system to use our own liberties to detroy the country from within.
5. The steep rise in Federalism, destroying states rights and usurping powers it constitutionally never had.
1. The South Secedes
2. Lincoln is Assassinated
3. The Stock Market Crashes
4. Pearl Harbor is Attacked
5. The Cuban Missile Crisis
1. Gettysburg
2. Appomattox
Diane Feinstein
Nancy Pelosi
Barbara Boxer
Hillary Clinton
Michelle Obama
The Seventeenth Amendment belongs in there somewhere.
1, Washington and Hamelton’s “Tax” on Hard Liquiers
2. Missouri Compromise
3. War of Northern Aggression
4. Reconstuction
4. Elections of Teddy Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson