(August 6, 2015 at 5:05 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote:(August 4, 2015 at 8:38 pm)abaris Wrote: Quite a bold statement to call Woodrow Wilson far to the left.
Well not if you took him in a time machine and brought him to today. If you contextualize him in his time he obviously is. Plus what I said is he was left of who he was running against, Taft, who was obviously way more conservative than him and Teddy Roosevelt, a war monger if there ever was one.
Quote: Leading the Congress, now in Democratic hands, he oversaw the passage of progressive legislative policies unparalleled until the New Deal in 1933.[1] Among these included the Federal Reserve Act, Federal Trade Commission Act, the Clayton Antitrust Act, and the Federal Farm Loan Act. Having taken office one month after ratification of the Sixteenth Amendment, Wilson called a special session of Congress, whose work culminated in the Revenue Act of 1913, reintroducing an income tax and lowering tariffs. Through passage of the Adamson Act, imposing an 8-hour workday for railroads, he averted a railroad strike and an ensuing economic crisis.
In the context of 1914 that's obviously someone to the left. I don't think the left and particularly the democratic party has a good record on war, either in a modern or a historical context. This is some sort of myth that they use to lure in peace votes
It's the same way that if you brought Abraham Lincoln to today he would be a racist but if you look at him in the context of the time he was racially progressive.
Interesting thing about Wilson is that he was quite racist himself, which in his day was more acceptable.
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