Conquer or Die
15th August 2010, 00:54
In the liberal-conservative divide of America there are two trains of thought when it comes to lists. The liberal line of thought is to exult people, and the conservative line of thought is to trash people.
Conservatives trashed Jimmy Carter as the worst person in history. What's sickening about that is the pure distastefulness in the way the list was constructed. Two whipping boys were selected out of history in John Wilkes Booth and Timothy McVeigh as people who did actual damage to America in horrific ways while the Republican whipping boy was identified as Tricky Dick Nixon. The rest of the list is opportunistic, with Saul Alinsky and Obama being the two most notable odd selections.
The list is here: http://rightwingnews.com/2010/08/conservative-bloggers-select-the-25-worst-figures-in-american-history/
Conservative bloggers are apparently opportunistic and pathetic in their selections. I mean, FDR and Sanger make sense, but was Carter really the worst American in history? It's not like I give a shit either way about Carter, but did he really do the most damage in history?
Another thing that bothers me about the list is the appearance of the rosenbergs. Sure they were "traitors" to America, and they were justly executed from a legal positivist perspective, but a nuclear parity world happening before the US got any cute ideas about bombing North Korea or China has to be historically shown as a good thing. I mean, assuming that Communist parity would never develop, is the assumption that nuclear power in the hands of one nation would be of ultimate benefit to the world?
Anyway, here is a counter list of the worst Americans in history:
Thomas Jefferson - Slightly Awesome, Slightly not, libertarian ideas about everybody owning farms to grow pot on and worship the Deist-Humanist-Christian Nebulae but no actual follow up in his policies as president. Most perverse was his policies of expansionism and support of France - Indian land was bought from France and money was given to the first dictator in the democratic age. He also refused to support Haiti for this reason. As a result of his actions America ended up supporting revolutionary France (which had slid off the fuckhole insane cliff long ago - Jacobinists be damned) and Haiti, the first free Republic of Black Men was left without allies or support from a man who hated slavery enough to impregnate women he probably personally whipped. The first French mole in the American consciousness is none other than Jefferson, too bad conservatives haven't picked up on this.
Andrew Jackson - The first Machiavellian president thought that handing out political offices based on your party loyalty was a good thing. His expansionism against Indians and iron support of slavery are well documented. He is the founder the Democrat party because he gave voting rights to all white men, regardless of their relationship to the means of production, and sometimes gets a pass for this reason - but the fact is that he did this to cash in on populist sentiment to pursue ruthless policies of greed and power. A typical democrat, one might say.
Edmund Ruffin - If you haven't heard of him then your missing a pretty big picture of the American Civil War. Imagine Karl Marx except he supports slavery instead of liberation. Imagine the impact of Karl Marx on the world as equivalent to Ruffin's impact on America and the slavery issue. No joke, this man was the basis for the southern revolution.
Nathan Bedford Forrest - Imagine Che Guevara, except more talented, more ruthless and a follower of Ruffin's ideology. Created and lead the foundations for the destruction of reconstruction and the promulgation of the white oligarchy in the south and in American consciousness.
William McKinley - The distortion between socialism, that is the liberation of the working class, and progressivism, that is the belief in the righteousness of government, is seen here. Government is a tool, and as a tool it was used to consolidate power in the hands of a few while buying off more reasonable socialist demands. The man was assassinated because the origins of libertarianism, of liberty, are also the origins of the labor and communist movement. This lesson needs to be learned by progressives of all stripes. The government, as is democracy, is a tool, not a promise of liberation.
Ayn Rand - Arguably the most perverted of all American philosophers, she was the first to replace Christ with the dollar. She saw freedom as subjugation. She saw classes of the glorious wealthy as intrinsically superior, the ubermensch class. Their unrestricted behavior is the swollen, uncontrollable phallus, and her exultation is the willing flower. Ayn Rand created cretinous whores with no ability to act in the common good or for themselves. She has poisoned several generations of Americans who are willing automatons for slavery based on greed. Her discharge sopped the American "intellectual" establishment in the form of Economic hit men such as Milton Friedman and Alan Greenspan who pissed away America's greatness for the adulation of profit.
Henry Kissinger - No elaboration needed.
Others:
Donald Rumsfeld
George Pullman
J. Edgar Hoover
Henry Loeb
Elijah Mohammed
John F. Kennedy Jr.
Herbert Hoover
Father Coughlin
Conservatives trashed Jimmy Carter as the worst person in history. What's sickening about that is the pure distastefulness in the way the list was constructed. Two whipping boys were selected out of history in John Wilkes Booth and Timothy McVeigh as people who did actual damage to America in horrific ways while the Republican whipping boy was identified as Tricky Dick Nixon. The rest of the list is opportunistic, with Saul Alinsky and Obama being the two most notable odd selections.
The list is here: http://rightwingnews.com/2010/08/conservative-bloggers-select-the-25-worst-figures-in-american-history/
Conservative bloggers are apparently opportunistic and pathetic in their selections. I mean, FDR and Sanger make sense, but was Carter really the worst American in history? It's not like I give a shit either way about Carter, but did he really do the most damage in history?
Another thing that bothers me about the list is the appearance of the rosenbergs. Sure they were "traitors" to America, and they were justly executed from a legal positivist perspective, but a nuclear parity world happening before the US got any cute ideas about bombing North Korea or China has to be historically shown as a good thing. I mean, assuming that Communist parity would never develop, is the assumption that nuclear power in the hands of one nation would be of ultimate benefit to the world?
Anyway, here is a counter list of the worst Americans in history:
Thomas Jefferson - Slightly Awesome, Slightly not, libertarian ideas about everybody owning farms to grow pot on and worship the Deist-Humanist-Christian Nebulae but no actual follow up in his policies as president. Most perverse was his policies of expansionism and support of France - Indian land was bought from France and money was given to the first dictator in the democratic age. He also refused to support Haiti for this reason. As a result of his actions America ended up supporting revolutionary France (which had slid off the fuckhole insane cliff long ago - Jacobinists be damned) and Haiti, the first free Republic of Black Men was left without allies or support from a man who hated slavery enough to impregnate women he probably personally whipped. The first French mole in the American consciousness is none other than Jefferson, too bad conservatives haven't picked up on this.
Andrew Jackson - The first Machiavellian president thought that handing out political offices based on your party loyalty was a good thing. His expansionism against Indians and iron support of slavery are well documented. He is the founder the Democrat party because he gave voting rights to all white men, regardless of their relationship to the means of production, and sometimes gets a pass for this reason - but the fact is that he did this to cash in on populist sentiment to pursue ruthless policies of greed and power. A typical democrat, one might say.
Edmund Ruffin - If you haven't heard of him then your missing a pretty big picture of the American Civil War. Imagine Karl Marx except he supports slavery instead of liberation. Imagine the impact of Karl Marx on the world as equivalent to Ruffin's impact on America and the slavery issue. No joke, this man was the basis for the southern revolution.
Nathan Bedford Forrest - Imagine Che Guevara, except more talented, more ruthless and a follower of Ruffin's ideology. Created and lead the foundations for the destruction of reconstruction and the promulgation of the white oligarchy in the south and in American consciousness.
William McKinley - The distortion between socialism, that is the liberation of the working class, and progressivism, that is the belief in the righteousness of government, is seen here. Government is a tool, and as a tool it was used to consolidate power in the hands of a few while buying off more reasonable socialist demands. The man was assassinated because the origins of libertarianism, of liberty, are also the origins of the labor and communist movement. This lesson needs to be learned by progressives of all stripes. The government, as is democracy, is a tool, not a promise of liberation.
Ayn Rand - Arguably the most perverted of all American philosophers, she was the first to replace Christ with the dollar. She saw freedom as subjugation. She saw classes of the glorious wealthy as intrinsically superior, the ubermensch class. Their unrestricted behavior is the swollen, uncontrollable phallus, and her exultation is the willing flower. Ayn Rand created cretinous whores with no ability to act in the common good or for themselves. She has poisoned several generations of Americans who are willing automatons for slavery based on greed. Her discharge sopped the American "intellectual" establishment in the form of Economic hit men such as Milton Friedman and Alan Greenspan who pissed away America's greatness for the adulation of profit.
Henry Kissinger - No elaboration needed.
Others:
Donald Rumsfeld
George Pullman
J. Edgar Hoover
Henry Loeb
Elijah Mohammed
John F. Kennedy Jr.
Herbert Hoover
Father Coughlin