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To: ProgressingAmerica

You can thank Wilson for direct election of senators, income taxes, and a plethora of other progressive causes. Wilson did more to harm the nation than practically any other president.


2 posted on 06/08/2022 9:26:21 AM PDT by DugwayDuke (Most pick the expert who says the things they agree with.)
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To: DugwayDuke

All if the items you listed are the fault of Theodore Roosevelt and Taft, not Wilson.

Wilson was a monster, that’s definitely true. But we simply look foolish blaming the wrong progressive.


4 posted on 06/08/2022 9:27:46 AM PDT by ProgressingAmerica (A man's rights rest in 3 boxes. The ballot box, jury box and the cartridge box.- Frederick Douglass)
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9 posted on 06/08/2022 9:35:21 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: DugwayDuke

On direct Senator elections....this goes back to the magazine Harper’s Weekly, which made a continual ‘talk’ for months about the corruption going on in various state capitals, and how ‘promises’ were made to get so-and-so a Senate job. Nationally, that news magazine pumped up the topic and it was pretty easy to get this focused as a Constitutional item.


14 posted on 06/08/2022 9:55:47 AM PDT by pepsionice
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To: DugwayDuke
You can thank Wilson for direct election of senators, income taxes, and a plethora of other progressive causes. Wilson did more to harm the nation than practically any other president.

Read the US Constitution. The president has no role in amending the it. He may have strongly supported the 16th and 17th amendments, but he had no role in their passage. You can blame 2/3'rds of the members of both the House and Senate plus the 3/4'ths of the state legislatures for that.

15 posted on 06/08/2022 10:05:42 AM PDT by Paleo Conservative
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To: DugwayDuke
You can thank Wilson for direct election of senators, income taxes, and a plethora of other progressive causes. Wilson did more to harm the nation than practically any other president.

You can indirectly thank Teddy for challenging Taft because Taft wasn't "progressive" enough, thereby helping to elect Wilson.

18 posted on 06/08/2022 10:18:11 AM PDT by Sans-Culotte (11/3-11/4/2020 - The USA became a banana republic.)
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