Most Unethical,Unprincipled,Dishonorable:Who's the Most Damaging American Since 1776

[SmarterthanYou]

What prominent American has done the most most damage to our nation during the last 233 years?

 

[Cancel 2018. 3]

why is obama not on the list?

 

[SmarterthanYou]

why is obama not on the list?

despite alot of peoples desire to place a chicago politician on the list, he has only had one year as president. I'd like to give him some more rope to hang himself with, so maybe next year.

 

[Beefy]

Woodie Wilson cause more death, destruction and fiscal calamity than the rest of humanity combined.

 

[FUCK THE POLICE]

Woodrow Wilson was our greatest president.

 

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I wish I could choose again. I voted for FDR, but upon reflection I think he genuinely believed he was doing good, so he wasn't evil, just wrong. I'd like to see George Soros added. HE gets my new vote.

 

[Topspin]

why is obama not on the list?

Richard Simmons thinks that's GAY

 

[Topspin]

Gotta be Nixon, war on drugs, liberals, he created the neonazi's in America.

 

[WinterBorn]

J. Edgar Hoover did more to promote the gov't interference in private lives, and the spying on american citizens than anyone else. The economy will ebb and flow, but the intrusions Hoover instigated have had (and will have) lasting influence.

 

[Cypress]

These poll results are obviously biased towards the beneficiaries of white privilege.

However “evil” FDR’s new deal was, Wilson’s income tax, or Nixon’s wiretapping was, they aren’t even in the same universe as slavery and racial oppression. Beneficiaries of white privilege clearly view polls like this through the prism a lily white Americana.

Slavery was the defining moral issue of this country. Nothing is even in the same ballpark. It tore this country apart, and resulted in a cataclysmic war. The enslavement, torture, and death of millions of people over 400 years is a travesty without any parallel. The residue and impact of slavery, institutionalized racism, and Jim Crow continue to this day. White message board posters hold Thomas Jefferson and George Washington in the highest esteem, but I can guarantee you that is not a universally held sentiment, especially for many people with pigment in their skin.

You can’t lay slavery at the foot of any one person, but certainly the evil of Jefferson Davis, the plantation bosses, and the other enablers of slavery and oppression are in a league by themselves. A league the Jimmy Carter, Richard Nixon, and FDR aren’t even close to matching.








p.s, I voted for Reagan, just because my lefty DNA forces me too on principle.

 

[Topspin]

These poll results are obviously biased towards the beneficiaries of white privilege.

However “evil” FDR’s new deal was, Wilson’s income tax, or Nixon’s wiretapping was, they aren’t even in the same universe as slavery and racial oppression. Beneficiaries of white privilege clearly view polls like this through the prism a lily white Americana.

Slavery was the defining moral issue of this country. Nothing is even in the same ballpark. It tore this country apart, and resulted in a cataclysmic war. The enslavement, torture, and death of millions of people over 400 years is a travesty without any parallel. The residue and impact of slavery, institutionalized racism, and Jim Crow continue to this day. White message board posters hold Thomas Jefferson and George Washington in the highest esteem, but I can guarantee you that is not a universally held sentiment, especially for many people with pigment in their skin.

You can’t lay slavery at the foot of any one person, but certainly the evil of Jefferson Davis, the plantation bosses, and the other enablers of slavery and oppression are in a league by themselves. A league the Jimmy Carter, Richard Nixon, and FDR aren’t even close to matching.



Joe Dirt, thanks for the civics lesson but it has zip to do with the thread. As if even the nazi'est of our board members supports slavery. Try again weakling

 

[ThreadDirector]

Excellent so far, now Cypress, make sure you start asking which of the New Deal points others would like to repeal, then pretend that nobody answers it when they do!

 

[Damocles]

I wish I could choose again. I voted for FDR, but upon reflection I think he genuinely believed he was doing good, so he wasn't evil, just wrong. I'd like to see George Soros added. HE gets my new vote.

The question was who did the most damage, not who meant to do that damage.

 

[Cancel 2016.2]

What prominent American has done the most most damage to our nation during the last 233 years?

Just curious... but was Benedict Arnold ever really an American? Or simply a citizen of the colonies that was loyal to his homeland?

 

[SmarterthanYou]

I wish I could choose again. I voted for FDR, but upon reflection I think he genuinely believed he was doing good, so he wasn't evil, just wrong. I'd like to see George Soros added. HE gets my new vote.

Soros is hungarian, not American.

 

[SmarterthanYou]

Slavery was the defining moral issue of this country. Nothing is even in the same ballpark. It tore this country apart, and resulted in a cataclysmic war. The enslavement, torture, and death of millions of people over 400 years is a travesty without any parallel. The residue and impact of slavery, institutionalized racism, and Jim Crow continue to this day.

This is a very excellent point.

Damo, please edit the poll to add Jim Crow. thanks.

 

[Mott the Hoople]

What prominent American has done the most most damage to our nation during the last 233 years?

I think you're to broad on this listing. as to who was the most unprincipled, unethical, dishonorable, who did the most damage to American is just to broad a description and none of the candidates listed really meet all those. So I voted on one criteria. Who did the most damage to this nation. That's an easy one. By any objective measure Jefferson Davis, by leading the confederacy did more damage, materially, philosophically and politically then all the others combined. It aint even a contest there. Oh I can see where the morons on the far right wingnut or libertarina "Let them starve to fucking death because it's not governments job" crowd would vote for FDR. If those persons would identify themselves it would come as no surpirse that it's they would be the ussual morons. By any objective measure FDR was one of the three truely Great US Presidents.

However, the preson I think has done the greatest damage to this nation is not even on your list. I would vote for Charles Coughlin in a heart beat. The American first cousin of Joseph Goebbels, avowed fascist and nazi and the philosophical father or Rush Limbaugh, Michael Savage, Shawn Hannity and the other hate mongers on radio. They've done huge damage to this nation with their bitter and acrimonous and hatefull partisanship that they use to artificially create division between the brother/sister hood of this nation.

 

[Mott the Hoople]

I wish I could choose again. I voted for FDR, but upon reflection I think he genuinely believed he was doing good, so he wasn't evil, just wrong. I'd like to see George Soros added. HE gets my new vote.

Do you have any members of your family alive who survived the Great Depression?

 

[Mott the Hoople]

Gotta be Nixon, war on drugs, liberals, he created the neonazi's in America.

He was #2 on my list after Davis.

 

[Mott the Hoople]

J. Edgar Hoover did more to promote the gov't interference in private lives, and the spying on american citizens than anyone else. The economy will ebb and flow, but the intrusions Hoover instigated have had (and will have) lasting influence.

He was #3 on my list.