>  -=> On 05-15-18  14:14,  Earl Croasmun <=-
>  -=> spoke to Bob Ackley about Worst presidents <=-
> 
> 
>  > I just finished reading "Nine Presidents Who Ruined America" by 
Brion 
>  > McClanahan.  It's a good read, and five of his nine are on my list 
of the 
>  > worst presidents.  In order:
>  > 5)  Lyndon Johnson
>  > 4)  Hiram Grant
>  > 3)  Roosevelt minor (1933-45)
>  > 2)  Thomas Wilson (1913-21)
>  > 1)  Abraham Lincoln  (1861-65)  

Abraham Lincoln started a war that killed 600,000 people - yes, he 
started it and maneuvered South Carolina into firing the first shots.  
The firing of those shots was the FOURTH act of war and the first by a 
southern state.  He destroyed the Constitution and the United States of 
America, replacing kt with the United State of America using raw military 
force and conquest.  He incarcerated people who opposed his war in 
military prisons - without charges or trials and shut down 21 northern 
newspapers that had printed opinions critical of his actions.  He 
elevated war crimes to an instrument of national policy - see William 
Tecumseh "War Criminal" Sherman's campaign, and the campaign of 
destruction in the Shenandoah Valley, and General "Beast" Butler's 
administration in the captured area around New Orleans.

There's no reason, save angry northern politicians and industrialists, 
that the USA and CSA could not have peacefully co-existed.  There's 
nothing in the Constitution that says states cannot leave the union, and 
nothing that says they can, the Constitution is silent on the issue.  
Under the 10th Amendment states do have the power to leave the union.

Thomas Wilson introduced progressivism into American government.  His 
administration gave us the income tax and the direct election of 
senators, and presided over massive growth of the national government.  
Roosevelt minor finished off whatever was left of the Constitution and 
continued the expansion of the national government.  LBJ continued the 
expansion of government, and raised vote-buying to a form of art.
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