Thread 17802221

The last U.S. president to openly support racial segregation.

Also the US president who ushered in the (((federal))) reserve, dragged the US into WWI and failed to get the League of Nations charter ratified in congress due to him expending all of his political capital get the fed instituted
hes a weak, evil man and his legacy is the downfall of the American experiment

>>17802236
>Nooooo! Muh rugged individualist yeoman farmer fantasy!!!!!!!!!!
It was never going to last. As soon as the frontier ran out and the world became globalized it was over forever. You can have international cooperation for the good of all mankind or a bourgeois world economic dictatorship.

>>17802251
You know most of the country is still frontier right?
its pretty remarkable if you think about it

>>17802236
I will never understand how Wilson is the only president you aren't allowed to say anything nice about. If your a Liberal or Western European, both who saw massive benefits from him entering the US into WW1, you must fixate on his racial policies and supposed hypocrisy in Central America. If you are a racist, you must only fixate on how he sold the American people short, jailed draft dodgers and spread Liberalism.
Now it should be obvious I also dislike him, but this is treatment that is not delivered to any other figure in US history. You are allowed to speak positively of FDR despite his oppression of the Japanese and how he had Germans, Italians and Japanese living in South America kidnapped and sent to internment camps. You may speak positively about Lincoln despite his authoritarian rule.

>>17802264
He was the worst possible man for the situation and everyone recognizes that, nobody likes a fence sitter.

>>17802264
The US entering WWI actively kickstarted what eventually would occur in WWII. If the US stayed out there is a very good chance either Germany stalemates France and Britain or outright wins causing a huge cascade of changes that would have essentially made another major world conflict far less likely.

>>17802264
You forgot Andrew Jackson. There's always some catch with him I hear both sides do.

I guess he was on money

>>17802264
>Western Europe benefitted from American hegemony