Posted on 02/04/2008 7:52:59 PM PST by NorseWood
WASHINGTON - I'm thinking of an American president who demonized ethnic groups as enemies of the state, censored the press, imprisoned dissidents, bullied political opponents, spewed propaganda, often expressed contempt for the Constitution, approved warrantless searches and eavesdropping, and pursued his policies with a blind, religious certainty. Oh, and I'm not thinking of George W. Bush, but another "W" – actually "WW": Woodrow Wilson, the Democrat who served from 1913 to 1921. President Wilson is mostly remembered today as the first modern liberal president, the first (and only) POTUS with a PhD, and the only political scientist to occupy the Oval Office. He was the champion of "self determination" and the author of the idealistic but doomed "Fourteen Points" – his vision of peace for Europe and his hope for a League of Nations. But the nature of his presidency has largely been forgotten. That's a shame, because Wilson's two terms in office provide the clearest historical window into the soul of progressivism.
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I heard a lot of this in an interview he gave with Glenn Beck. Having a history degree and all, I felt stupid that I didn’t know a lot of it. It’s good stuff to know.
Good stuff.
I discovered a gap in my knowledge that needs to be closed.
‘Never really spent time on this President. I always brushed him off as a President who had a stroke, wife ran the White House and who pursued the League of Nations in a rather Quixotic way.
Now it’s back to the books to catch up on this!!
WW also instituted Jim Crow in Washington, D. C.
In the audio interview Goldberg states that, in effect, the liberal progressives would displace God and he implies that they arrogantly believe that it is their intellectual capacity independent of God which they think could somehow create a heaven on earth.
Wasn’t he widowed in his first term, and remarried in his second?
Wasn’t he widowed in his first term, and remarried in his second?
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True. It's said Wilson's second wife ran the country after he had a stroke. He died in 1924, and she lived until 1961.
Jonah's book has a lot of important and disquieting information about the history of progressivism and liberalism. But he's too much of a cheerleader to be taken seriously as a thinker himself.
“Progressive” doesn’t always mean progress eh? :)
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