Posted on 03/15/2011 7:29:33 AM PDT by US Navy Vet
What does anyone/everyone think was the genesis of the "Decline" of the Republic in the Americas known as the "United States"?
Woodrow Wilson tested the water, but it was FDR’s new deal and Social Security that really did US in.
I agree. When it peaked in the colleges and PC became the norm, soon spreading via the teacher’s unions to our entire public school system. Now people like van jones (ohbama’s recent green czar, oh puke) hold seminars to teach kids how to fight back against the police and gay groups teach children how to ‘fist’ with full approval of the sick teacher’s unions.
Whaaat? He was the greatest of our founders.
The American taxpayer was saddled with the socialist programs of the 1930s, combined with the burden of policing up the planet after WWII during the Cold War.
The commies controlled our schools way before that. I agree with the pister who said fdr.
I agree that that was a mistake.
Banning the 5 gallon flush toilet.
There’s this dog at the dog park I’ve come to find out is not named Bird (figured it was some breed used for bird hunting). I’m told the dog is named Burr, because he shot Hamilton. That makes a lot more sense.
Removal of God from the school systems.
Slavery was at the top of my list as well.
“The Civil War permanently inverted the relationship between the central government and the states.”
Bingo.
1. Surrender of Lee at Appomatox.
2. New Deal.
3. Great Society.
Pride. . . And MTV
Marbury v Madison case - the court arrogated to itself the power to decide political questions under the guise of law.
While the decision may have been necessary, it has become the only branch of government that can through out the acts of the other two branches of government.
This concept can and has been abused, and while the Court could be the last bastion of freedom, it may also now be used to destroy that freedom.
Otherwise, I believe the real turning point came when the banking system was created, since money rules all, and in the nation, only a few unregulated individuals rule the money. Don’t know when that was, but suspect in early part of the 20th century, possibly prior to WWI.
The civil war determined that states are not autonomous except in unimportant things, and that the Feds will find a way to force compliance on a nationwide basis. This was also a turning point.
the election of Woodrow Wilson, the passage of the 16th Amendment, and the dawn of the Progressive Era
Theodore Roosevelt(WHAT a FIRST CLASS A$$H*LE!) started the “Progressive Era”.
Sixteenth Amendment.
It allowed government to become a cancer feeding on the productivity of the people and turned us all into livestock on a tax farm.
What is the “Equal Credit Opportunity Act of 1974” please explain?
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