American Presidential Tyranny (feat. The Exploration with Will Fox)

[@KVirello]

I heard he was called Woodrow "literally Hitler" Wilson in college. That's especially bad when you realise that was before Hitler was even born.

[@redjirachi1]

Andrew Jackson is the most "literally Hitler" president given the Trail of Tears

[@a_can_of_soda]

The Crimson Fucker Hitler hated socialism. The word "privatization" was literally coined in the 1930s to describe how far to the right the Nazis were.

[@a_can_of_soda]

Richard Wilson If the Nazis were socialist because they called themselves "National Socialists", *then East Germany was a democracy because they called themselves the "German Democratic Republic".*

[@johnnygreenface]

SodaBoy628 but weither be liked it or not, he enacted socialist policies.

[@weerribben47]

SodaBoy628 Hey the Democrat People's Republic of Korea is totally a democracy right?!

[@iammrbeat]

Holy crap, did not know that about Francis Scott Key's grandson...woahness

[@JackClockerinos]

Learned about him last year in school.

[@michaelloedel750]

Hey Mr. Beat! Love your channel!

[@callmecharlie37]

@Creator De Coatrack lol stfu

[@LopezArts]

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[@elliottowens8913]

Mr beat give me money

[@platonically]

*exhales* WILSONNNNNNN ! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@jakubpociecha8819]

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[@hermannkarol9370]

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[@williamcfox]

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[@Lolpy.]

Funnily, when Wilson went out of office he actually thought he was a failure, and did a poor job at presidency. Soar the least he was a humble fella.

[@nuttus7839]

He gets 3 redeeming points for understanding that he almost made usa an authoritan dictatorship

[@ktheterkuceder6825]

@@nuttus7839 3? Too kind. 1 is generous enough.

[@B4llingKitten43]

he was angry that he didn't accomplish all of his evil plans

[@johnecoapollo7]

"GODDAMMIT, I DIDN'T GET TO MAKE THE KKK INTO AN OFFICIAL PART OF THE US GOVERNMENT. I AM A FAILURE" -Woodrow Wilson, most likely

[@lovecraftscat2420]

He had a stroke while in office and his wife often acted on his behalf

[@TheKalihiMan]

I appreciate you mentioning the internment of people of Japanese descent. My grandfather lived in Hawaiʻi at the time, so was not interned, but my grandmother and her family lived in San Bernardino, and were sent to the Poston War Relocation Center on the eastern bank of the Colorado River. Being only 13 at the time, the sudden upheaval and treatment as a hostile outsider in the country of her birth had a lasting impression, and even to this day she hesitates to speak the Japanese language, as she feared it would cast more suspicion on her and her family than there already was. The effects of the past are still felt today, and in my case, I was cut off from the language of my ancestors through no fault of my own.

[@videogamebomer]

TheKalihiMan Rings ture of what's happening today with kids in cages

[@dillonblair6491]

@@videogamebomer Except they aren't Americans and none of their rights are being infringed. And you leave your foreign language and culture at the border. Be American or go home.

[@Demonsamongus]

Get over it

[@bluespaceman7937]

@@dillonblair6491 Actually, several of them have been mistreated. That's violating their rights, not as Americans but as human beings. You don't automatically get to treat people of other nationalities poorly.

[@bluespaceman7937]

@@indy_go_blue6048 Trump expanded it and made things worse. So you're deflecting.

[@ethanfleisher1910]

Love that you guys are treating these hugely important subjects with clarity and maturity... it's so refreshing to see an apolitical, educational video exploring authoritarianism. I've been horrified in the last few years at how tyranny has become increasingly misunderstood and caricatured, to a point that I'm starting to think the younger generations would actually support a despot, so long as he told them what they wanted to hear...

[@engiethefriendlyengineer]

Yeah that's every county. You tell them what they want to hear and people will vote for you. That's what hitler did.

[@spaceman081447]

@Ethan Fleisher RE: ". . . to a point that I'm starting to think the younger generations would actually support a despot, . . ." It wouldn't just be the younger generations. I remember a poll that was taken decades ago. People were asked to read a copy of the Bill of Rights (the first 10 amendments to the constitution) and asked what they thought of it. A majority of the people surveyed rejected it as being a "commie" document.

[@ethanfleisher1910]

@@spaceman081447 But this is actually kind of in line with my point. Younger generations are far more likely to trust "polls", "statistics", and "studies" than their own gut instinct. In fact, when I look at people my age, I'm not so certain many of them have gut instinct left anymore. Hitler once taunted the parents of Nazi youth who were horrified by the change they saw in their children. His words still make sick because of how true they were. He basically said he didn't care about parents who resisted, because he had the school systems on his side, and that when the parents were either destroyed or died in time, the children would know nothing aside from Nazi ideology, having only been taught one way of seeing the world. I see this already in young people and kids. They can't fathom that people would disagree with the orthodoxy of "republicans are bad" or "all white people are racist" or any of these things that are not at all truth but a consensus. This is what scares me. Historically, when we look at Mao, Hitler, or Stalin, or any of these tyrants, they pitted the youth against the traditions of the time. Hitler is typically cast a traditional character, but he was actually a hardline socialist up until joining the brown shirts. He despised the "bourgeoise" and the traditional protestant German culture. The danger begins when tyrants or tyrannical regimes can spin their oppressive and divisive material as "revolutionary", or "liberating" that they gain that unstoppable momentum.

[@macha3191]

​@@ethanfleisher1910 I'm not sure we want to trade legitimate studies for gut instincts. I would argue it's more important for folks to learn to discern which studies are legitimate.

[@toddstroger9505]

Sounds like President Trump, the only one who can save us.

[@someyoungguy4949]

Wilson downvoted this 31 times.

[@sportsgamer8524]

Lorenzo Nivellini these goddamn Plebeians

[@lordkarasu2263]

No way to tell now, rip dislike count

[@Alex-yy5wo]

@@lordkarasu2263 Wilson’s cabinet arrested the dislike button

[@acasualcactus5878]

The dislike button was arrested under the sedition act.

[@alexwest2573]

@@acasualcactus5878 😂🤣😂 that’s funny asf.

[@timothymclean]

"How do you get re-elected from a _jail cell?"_ It's more common than you'd think. A lot of the long-running scandal-heavy political careers that are absolutely _hilarious_ a couple decades down the line have at least one election cycle where the politician was in jail (or at least in the middle of a criminal case) during the election.

[@jliller]

Did Eugene Debs run for president more than once from a jail cell?

[@spaceman081447]

@@jliller RE: "Did Eugene Debs run for president more than once from a jail cell?" [Eugene V.] Debs was the Socialist Party of America candidate for president in 1904, 1908, 1912 and 1920 (the final time from prison). Reference: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_V._Debs

[@hawkeyeten2450]

There was a federal judge who was impeached and removed by Congress...then BECAME a Congressman himself! Alcee Hastings.

[@andrewsutherland133]

"Adam's happily signed it into law" Actually Adam's signed it into law reluctantly and under pressure for a short time. Literally everyone admits that law was a mistake, but Adams himself never even enforced it

[@chico305SIGMA]

Is it true what you say? Pinky swear.

[@neo-filthyfrank1347]

doesn't matter, he still did it and that alone makes him a bad president, and the only bad founding father president

[@andrewsutherland133]

@@neo-filthyfrank1347 you can argue that he was a bad president, but at least be true to his character.

[@neo-filthyfrank1347]

@@andrewsutherland133 him signing it in despite not wanting to IS a mark on his character

[@andrewsutherland133]

@@neo-filthyfrank1347 but the video exaggerates his intentions

[@js8281]

There's a reason why they don't talk about the tenth amendment in school: "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people." Nearly every function of the federal government is outside the guidelines of the Constitution but people are too busy bickering about what bathrooms .01% of the population can use.

[@RachaelMarieNewport]

Watch HipHughes History he talks about the 10 th amendment a lot.

[@emc448]

Usually the Implied Powers of the Constitution are used to justify federal decisions that would otherwise not be supported by the document.

[@yotubeification]

They do talk about it in schools. And while many of the powers are delegated to the states the states, through passing federal law, have effectively delegated it back to the federal government.

[@dmnemaine]

What you're omitting here is that while the states do have power not delegated to the federal government, the states' powers are still constrained by the Constitution. For example, a state can make whatever traffic laws it desires, but those laws can't violate equal protection or due process, such as basing who can have a driver's license on race or ethnicity

[@rustym.shackelford5546]

Or some other Culture War crap. Ugh. 😒

[@unrealivandd8415]

“How do you get re-elected from a jail cell?” That sounds familiar

[@EuropeanQoheleth]

Sounds like Tommy Sheridan.

[@nerdrocker89]

I live in Oklahoma and we totally screwed them (the native americans) over again with the land run.

[@CynicalHistorian]

It was even worse, because the Indian Territory was originally the Preeminent Indian Frontier, running all the way to Minnesota. That wasn't kept very well

[@HoneyBadger--sl6wi]

@@CynicalHistorian i mean hell all my ppl got was free healthcare and casinos

[@nerdrocker89]

@Saint RedPill We still screwed them. Plus I doubt that was the reason and more the excuse. Although the tribes are taking all our money now with the casinos lol guess we deserve it too right?

[@thenintenbro7154]

Martin Jones eh it’s because we utilize too broad a term

[@beautifulblobfish3590]

@@darthbigred22 one of reasons they joined the csa in the first place is they hoped that if the csa won their land would stop being taken

[@conorkelly8851]

If I am not mistaken, Lincoln's second suspension of Habeas Corpus was conducted with congressional approval, albeit it later in 1863.

[@3ou1man]

That is correct yes

[@crypticmrchimes]

Wow. I’m impressed you took notice of the Aleut camps. Not too many people outside of Alaska are even aware of them and I was genuinely surprised to see you give them a mention.

[@iscrewy]

1. Adams didn't actively support the A&S act. Congress passed it. 2. No one was deported under the acts. 3. The common law at the time was much stricter than the Sedition Act.

[@BradyPostma]

I glanced at McCollough's book about Adams. It discusses the passage and signing of the Alien & Sedition Acts on pages 404-406. It says the acts were "an improvement" over common law, which used the truth of the claims as a positive defense (meaning that once it was proved that the defendent said the thing, they were guilty unless they could prove it was true). But "improvement" doesn't seem to suggest it was less a violation of freedom of speech. It seems more like it was "improved" because it was better at silencing libelous anti-administration newspapers. I'm not claiming certainty, but it seems like muddy waters at best and blatently anti-speech at worst. And I say that as a real fan of John Adams.

[@Steven_Edwards]

He signed it...he may have had his reservations about it, and while it is common for a President to sign almost anything Congress gives them, but his signature meant he agreed with it more than he disagreed with it.

[@thesladesterb3vt3co7h]

@@Steven_Edwards True that!

[@paulbrandel5980]

@@thesladesterb3vt3co7h That doesn't make Adams a tyrant! Now old hickory Jackson another matter.

[@thesladesterb3vt3co7h]

@@paulbrandel5980 True. It still doesn't exempt John Adams from the blame for the act. He still sign it and gave it the "okay".

[@gh0s7-704]

As a non-American, I do find this really interesting...

[@walterbrunswick]

As a non-American, I am happy to be non-American.

[@aryanbhuta3382]

@@walterbrunswick Happy to be a citizen of your country, or happy you are not American?

[@ALEXIUSTHEGENERAL]

@@aryanbhuta3382 not American

[@SNB_1985]

Walter's Playground unfortunate. Where are you from?

[@walterbrunswick]

@@aryanbhuta3382 That's an interesting way to put it. Actually I would even say both in my case.

[@zacharytaylor3178]

Update: we now have 6 tyrannical presidents, not 5

[@ronaldomontero3624]

Trump Washington Roosevelt Lincoln Nixon Bush

[@johnnyviking8152]

​@@ronaldomontero3624two Roosevelts

[@meatman2203]

Jefferson during Marbury vs Madison: 👏👏 JUDICIAL REVIEW 👏👏 JUDICIAL REVIEW

[@MerlijnDingemanse]

8:04 "Lincoln was a QUEER protecting his BLACK QUEERS" Mate pls

[@BradyPostma]

Ridiculous claims. But even if true, it would still have been preferable to the pro-slavery side.

[@kingofflamingos4344]

FDR also put Germans and Italians in internment camps as well.

[@dmnemaine]

Not nearly to the extent that Japanese were. And what difference does that make?

[@dmnemaine]

@@darthbigred22 "The common sense side of internment" says all I need to know about you. No American citizens should have been put into internment camps regardless of their ethnicity. There was nothing "common sense" about denying American citizens their constitutional rights.

[@anemu3819]

@Nick Arjomand how were the internment camps genocide

[@kayvan671]

Really? How does it come that the commanding general in Europe was a German American? (Dwight D. Eisenhower) Did Frank Sinatra also spend time in these prisons? No he didn't. And we all know the reason why German- and Italian Americans were not put in these prisons.

[@spaceman081447]

@fabRic_jAck RE: "Internment camps =/= Concentration camps" Oh? And why not?

[@JRJohnson1701]

Lincoln: arrested people who opposed his war policies including Francis Scott Key's grandson; deported a congressman, Clement Vallandigham; shut down and destroyed newspapers ; allowed and likely encouraged generals to target Civilians and civilian property for destruction ; invaded states he claimed were in the Union without permission of the legal government ; Created a state. West Virginia, without consent of Virginia, which he claimed was in the Union, blockaded ports, and act of war, without a declaration of war ;called up Militia to invade states without declaration of war ; plotted to have the south fire first to incite the war, and tried to deport black people from the US

[@57WillysCJ]

It wasn't just Jackson's removal of the Eastern tribes, it was how the process was accomplished that makes Old Hickory look bad. The military had a pretty humane process set up for their removal using the army. Jackson didn't like it. He wanted them out faster and the people who taking their land provide local militia to do the job, thus the trail of tears. If I remember correctly General Winfield Scott had made the arrangements for proper transport with regulars that didn't arrive. The sad part he played in the end is the one many soldiers did in following orders of being merciless in the end. Scott could have resigned in protest but it would have changed nothing.

[@LibertarianUSA1982]

Best presidents 1. Washington 2. Jefferson 3. Lincoln 4. Coolidge 5. Reagan Worst presidents 1. Van Buren 2 Woodrow Wilson 3. FDR 4. Carter 5. Obama

[@gogomonow]

@@WyattPriceTV I'd put Teddy above Lincoln.

[@sebastianchavez2668]

1. Washington 2. Teddy Roosevelt 3. Lincoln 4. Coolidge 5. JFK And worst are 1. Woodrow Wilson 2. James Buchanan 3. Andrew Johnson 4. Richard Nixon 5. Andrew Jackson

[@99wins31]

I'd also throw Bush Jr in here because of some of the laws enacted following 9/11 like the Patriot Act

[@WrestlingMoM-gr6it]

Honest Abe also liked to jail journalist that were against the war as well as busting in and taking guns from anyone he chose. It was terrible......

[@aidanflaherty6183]

"How do you get elected from a jail cell?" James Michael Curley: OBSERVE

[@iustinianusspeedruns]

Sadly, Eugene Debs didn't

[@golds3882]

The line "how do you get reelected from a jail cell?" hits different here in 2023...

[@rars0n]

I find that, time and time again, when Thomas Jefferson is against something, he's usually correct. And I know that he wasn't a great person, but goddamn did he have some great ideas.

[@yotubeification]

I mean. Judicial review is one thing he opposed that I think is good. Also the federal government itself as well. As State governments have proven time and time again to pass discriminatory and tyranical laws that need to be smashed from above as it is harder to smash from below a boot. A collective consciousness is harder to corrupt even if the institutions it functions through still are.

[@rykleygalinsky8366]

I like how you begin the video by saying the Supreme Court is tyrannical because it gave itself power, but then immediately follow with claiming Jackson is tyrannical because he didn’t obey that power

[@surfingpenguin2279]

Im glad you're still posting, very informative stuff here. As long as itnis practical i hope you continue to do this

[@CynicalHistorian]

Building enough of a reserve to last to at least winter break

[@BlaBla-sd4is]

Right after you said a president who’s tyranny was a mainstay of this administration a trump ad came on.

[@CynicalHistorian]

Now that's funny

[@Jenacide]

@The Cynical Historian And that tells me everything I need to know about this channel

[@awkwardguy8238]

@@Jenacide Cmon that’s funny

[@leviticus2001]

@@Jenacide You must be really smart.

[@kzonedd7718]

You SAY you wrote this 6 months ago, but admit it; this is about Woodrow Wilson, isn't it? :-P

[@CynicalHistorian]

I wrote the Wilson episodes months before they were finished too

[@kzonedd7718]

I would never get anything done. By the time of making the video I'd have had too many new ideas, learned new things or simply second-guessed myself too much. I need to work against a tight and rapidly approaching deadline or projects would exist in a perpetual state of 'technically done, after I just do this little thing...'

[@CynicalHistorian]

Hank Green (of VlogBrothers fame) once said, "I try to get them at least 80% perfect." I was talking to him last week, and he was even more conciliatory than that about mistakes. Sometimes you can't sweat the details too much, or you'll get lost in the weeds

[@anthonyminimum]

I was in both Congress Hall and Old City Hall when I visited Philadelphia to see Independence Hall, the doors on those buildings are heavy and kinda hard to open

[@CynicalHistorian]

That's a very apt metaphor

[@TheHoagie13]

I don't know WHY it made me chuckle, seeing the quarrel between Adams/Jefferson with Mortal Kombat aback, but goddamn, *it SURE DID!!*

[@sanecosine505-8]

I've been waiting for a video like this for what seems like forever!! Finally.

[@justafaniv1097]

The Korematsu decision came up again just a couple days ago. In Trump v. Hawaii (the travel ban opinion), the court once again denounced Korematsu. Though it is technically still good law, since thankfully the conditions necessary to overturn it have not arisen again, and hopefully never will.

[@zeroclout6306]

Can you go into more detail about the red scare and what is and isn't protected speech as well as the relationship of the popular political language of speech vs actually existing history/law of speech? Any fraction of these subjects would be hella interesting. Thanks for being my favorite history teacher on KZbin!

[@CynicalHistorian]

As you can probably tell, protected speech has been arbitrarily defined for the last century. You would think any kind of political speech would warrant protection under the 1st amendment, but that keeps being proven wrong

[@dougnapier6441]

We had German internment camps in World War one kind of a forgotten Wilson moment. The man was prefacist eugenicist.

[@kayvan671]

Thats funny considering that german Americans are the largest ethnical group in the states.

[@johnkilmartin5101]

Just as a minor point, the Canadian internment camps were not on the other side of the Rockies. The initial camp was at Hope the eastern end of the Lower Mainland. Subsequent camps were in the Slocan Valley of the West Kootenay. Later in the war as labour became scarce there was recruiting for workers on the sugar beet farms of southern Alberta where workers were in the same accommodation as the previous workers. That being said it is also true that the entire fleet of the Canadian Fisherman Volunteer Reserve came from the largest vessels of the fishing fleet of interned Japanese.

[@laurelrunlaurelrun]

FDR also tried to pack the Supreme Court with more Justices friendly to his legislation. He had to be stopped by members of his own party in congress. Done legally, but with tyrannical intent. Further, we should remember that he was elected to 4 terms, effectively serving a life term as president. He did a lot of good, but wanted his way no matter how he had to get it.

[@hawkeyeten2450]

FDR was the closest thing to a dictator this country has ever had, and what's terrifying is how powerful his cult of personality was. Even to this day, some older liberals think he was the greatest president the United States ever had, above Teddy Roosevelt, Kennedy, Lincoln and even Washington. Not quite on Mao or Stalin's level, but very alarming none the less.

[@PrivateSi]

The difference between Europe and America during WW2 is telling... In America and Canada they segregated enemy nationals away from the general population, in Europe every person that had friends or family in the countryside sent their kids to live there... millions of British kids segregated.

[@henryolsen6248]

FDR also had Supreme Court packing, gold prohibition, and NRA.

[@kennethdelicata283]

Wilson is his best line.. in fact he was not able to conduct all of his policies because of stroke makes you wonder what else would have happened

[@Nonsense010688]

2:30 "and Adam happily sighing it into law" but but the TV series, you can find here on youtube, paints him REAALLLLLY struggling and actually not wanting it and ONLY because Congress wanted it and and... ;)

[@BradyPostma]

*signing

[@BradyPostma]

Technically, it should have been "... signing THEM into law." There were multiple Alien Acts, and the Sedition Act was also a separate bill separately passed.

[@BotheredBoy]

Boy, this video is hitting hard in early 2021...

[@leox1876]

imagine

[@jeddafakee91]

That guy Adams used biracial as an insult wow ... Well slavery days I guess

[@roberthsa9475]

i know was like... wow... just wow.

[@TheRealReVeLaTioN]

It's sad that this country feels apologetic for what they've done to everyone else except for what they've done and continue doing to Blacks in this country.

[@AeneasGemini]

I mean the fact that this surprises and offends you is kinda silly. History is full of things which are pretty different from our own values, and judging history by modern standards is fairly foolish. There's literally no country in any period of history that had values which were truly synonimous with modern western nations. If you get stuck in being offended by the past then you'll spend too much time on what upsets you and miss out on the other historical cool stuff

[@jimbaily734]

It was a pretty sick burn though, from that gender-bending hermaphrodite though. In all seriousness and in retrospect, it does in ways point to truth behind the saying of "the more we change the more we remain the same" American history is fascinating

[@hawkeyeten2450]

@@TheRealReVeLaTioN LOL, when do we EVER care about Native American reservations or people in this country? African Americans get hours of media and politicians' attention, while they continue to have their community needs ignored and their history kept buried.

[@oldfan1963]

Thanks very much for this lesson. This is what the internet should be -- a place where Americans can (if they want) learn and have many sources of information from which they can -- one can only hope -- form their own opinions.

[@barrontrump3943]

Who cares!

[@BasedPeter]

I've been searching for the music in the beginning for ages. Please, m'lord sauce?

[@CynicalHistorian]

handel - sarabande

[@steveempire4625]

While certain practices of tyranny are useful to study, I would argue that tyranny can be as simple as the power granted to the executive. The more a nation's government spends as a percentage of their GDP, the more power the executive has to enforce Congress' laws and the agencies funded. Under that criteria, the most authoritarian presidents are Lincoln, Wilson, FDR, and every single president after FDR to the present. This we can statistically measure.

[@lookbovine]

Political power and government money spent are not 1:1, as in they are not the same thing. So that is not a measure of “tyranny”, as if political power was equivalent to tyranny either. Keep studying.

[@steveempire4625]

@@lookbovine Your argument is essentially "not-uh" with a less than witty retort at the end.

[@AbrahamLincoln4]

I a tyrant? Absurd.

[@whafflete6721]

How was the play? I heard it's mind blowing

[@big_guy_of_leiden5688]

I’d never call you a tyrant sir!

[@Kabutoes]

Order 66 wasn’t mentioned as inspired by 9066 from Lucas anywhere I have found, but the parallels between Emperor Palpatine and FDR are alarming from the fact that both were viewed as heroes to the republic and wanting to make it so they have lasting power (FDR with the 4 terms, one being 1944, a year before his death). FDR was on a roll, why should he voluntarily stop running? Same reason why Palpatine didn’t back down from his ascendency.

[@GuyOnAChair]

11:42 Yes Will is a well known Tyrant. :)

[@rateeightx]

1:34 Reminds me of an article I saw from the Onion, "Supreme Court rules that the supreme court rules."

[@joshdepaola4002]

“I hope it hit Adams in the arsce” I mean if I said that I would just take the fine it was worth the epic burn 😎

[@jackr1360]

I really enjoyed the subject matter of this one. Great vid!

[@crimfan]

Nice video, and important things to recall. There are numerous other examples, of course. What I think is less usual is that the current... unpleasantness is not taking place during wartime or with anything really substantial happening on the border, although it is during the aftermath of two notable wars and a massive financial panic, so that's the kind of thing that does happen. Still. Comparison to the 1920s is apropos.

[@joyjones8231]

its finally the weekend and i can binge watch you.

[@otakuevolution2131]

FDR is probably my favorite President, but... yeah. You don't want to praise him around George Takei. That whole internment camp fiasco was a black mark on that administration.

[@Captain-Sum.Ting-Wong]

+Logan Waltz The economy was horrible anyway. FDR just eased the suffering and gave the American people hope. A great president is not just someone who was in office while the stock market is doing well.

[@darkcoeficient]

Captain Sum Ting Wong I think you just threw Obama under the bus.

[@j.r.mocksly5996]

FDR is my least favorite president, because he was a bitter, angry cripple that pushed the boundary of the presidency too far. He was the original 'red scare' guy, and few recognize he was really the first big politician to start becoming paranoid about and monitoring communists. He was probably right in that though. He stayed in office 4 consecutive terms, instituted japanese internment camps, and opened pandora's box on the welfare state that has plagued our country ever since. The only reason people think he was good was because he was a war-time leader, and people think he was the only one who could've done it. He did a good job, but he was NOT the only man for the job & he blatantly disrespected george washington and our entire national tradition by refusing to step down after his 2nd term. Pearl harbor was gonna happen anyways, and our support to the allied powers was gonna happen anyways, frankly I don't think he did anything unique during WW2 except for giving a good speech and being very paranoid about people with foreign backgrounds.

[@j.r.mocksly5996]

Noah go read up on it. He did make statements during and perhaps before WW2 indicating he was paranoid about communists. He was certainly paranoid about the Japanese as well

[@fratersol]

Fdr was a dam communist. He bankrupted america and re organized us into a.debt based socialist country and is the root of much of whats wrong today.

[@specialed1444]

Was I the only one that screamed Wilson at the top of my lungs when i near he was coming up?

[@WaterLemon147]

Wilson is the worst thing to happen to this country

[@wyattmcgee1]

Agreed.

[@ronaldomontero3624]

Donald Trump

[@jstantongood5474]

Quite a few politicians have been elected from their jail cells all over the world. The fact has helped their underdog status and has frequently helped increase their voter share. Remember that "jail" for politicians or organized crime syndicates in western countries or Latin America is nothing like jail for ordinary people. You get what you pay for in jail.

[@axriim7251]

this question might be controversial but did you think that president andrew johnson and his subsequent failure to halt the southern states from implementing jim crow laws is tyranny or just plain old dbag?

[@CynicalHistorian]

You'll find a lot of folks saying the resulting Radical Reconstruction was equally tyrannical. Considering constitutional amendments were part of both Presidential Reconstruction and Radical, the unconstitutionality of either seems suspect

[@dbojangles1597]

+Communist Patrick I'm going to have to agree with the Historian on this. What you basically had was states violating amendments that the north pushed through without any of the former confederate states being allowed to vote. And I don't know why you would say Johnson would be tyrannical for not using the military to once again bend the south to his will. Kind of the opposite really.

[@axriim7251]

my logic is a bit weird while all of the presidents that mentioned did something that would consider a tyranny i think about what president that didn't do anything even though he had the power to consider him a tyranny

[@ColonizerChan]

Communist Patrick Well if i look at this from another way, California, New York, Massachusetts, and New Jersey among many more implemented bans on certain types of weapons to where the New York AR is an abomination. In clear violation or the second amendment to us gun owners, are we to say to other states how to run their state? I feel the same towards jim crow. Sure, it’s shitty and is a violation, but nothing exactly prevented things like segregation or voter literacy tests in the same way as there isn’t something specific to say a gun must meet retarded specs or you have to go through a waiting period (the one from Yankee Marshall where they waited more than a month in Washington over a traffic incident in Georgia from years ago that wasn’t even her fault is a funny one). I’m playing devil’s advocate here and trying to make modern parallels. However, the constitution is violated/twisted to meet a certain end for given states. If the Feds were to enforce it equally across the board, then this further limits the state power that has been slowly dwindling since the civil war to where the only differences might be traffic laws or commerce related. So yes, it would be tyrannical, even if you think you’re doing the right thing. Also, I’m from dixie, VA. I’m just saying a friendly warning to y’all to never go 80 mph or above in the state. It is a major fine and cops love getting that ticket M O N E Y for that violation. Just a heads up.

[@LukeMcGuireoides]

Your channel rocks. Howard Zinn would proudly approve.

[@johnnyviking8152]

Zinn would add a few more to the list, probably start with Teddy Roosevelt.

[@theshenpartei]

Can you do based on a true story of Steve Spielberg’s Lincoln?

[@ColonizerChan]

Zachary Cutter Us southrons would really stir the pot...go for it, even though I’m not a huge fan of Lincoln the president. Comments would probably be underwhelming though tbh. You’d need good bait

[@neilpemberton5523]

There's more evidence in favor of that film's portrayal than against it, unless you are a lost causer with conformation bias.

[@tiernanwearen9499]

When Lincoln suspended habeus corpus it was only for railways. And when he introduced it for the whole country. In 1863 he did it with full congressional approval. The confederates suspend habeus corpus twice

[@zj13goat57]

Checkmate Lincolnites?

[@rudranshu65sengupta14]

tiernan wearen Exacly.

[@tiernanwearen9499]

@@zj13goat57 yes

[@pmcmanus420]

"The first casualty of war is not truth... but reason." -- George W. Bush

[@gijoe5372]

Fuck Bush!

[@macduece2112]

Fuck Churchill too:-)

[@Journey_to_who_knows]

“ I am the decider I decide what is necessary”

[@Targisvear]

I got three questions for anyone here: 1) American Indian expulsions and internments were all humanity wise wrong, but how many of those (like Jackson's) were not even constitutional and were done by the presidency or another organ of power overreaching its actual given powers? 2) What periods after Roosevelt would you point to as other instances of tyranny in the violation of constitution sense? 3) If you make this exercise on other English speaking democracies that technically never had a dictatorship (Canada, Australia, New Zealand, India, Jamaica, etc.)?

[@holdenvanetten3106]

Hey dude, I think you should do a video on the film “The Siege Of Jadotville”

[@kapatidtomas]

I like on how you really put rock music in the intro, every single video.

[@Gixwing]

3:25 I would like to introduce you to my country of Brasil. We have legislator in jail so often it's not even funny.

[@thedigitalodometer945]

4:15 Although FDR carried out the internment of Japanese-Americans by issuing an executive order, I can’t help but feel that a similar treatment of people during wartime could be legally permissible when reading this law.

[@TheParadoxGamer1]

The Andrew Jackson thing, always bothers me, as someone from Oklahoma I know and am infuriated by the actions against them especially in the years of Oklahoma becoming a state.

[@barrontrump3943]

Go to another state then

[@redjirachi1]

Just as Linkara traces everything bad back to Countdown, you trace everything bad back to Woodrow Wilson

[@A_mando1911]

Actually Lincoln only did habeas corpus at the start it was for the rail lines to d.c so Congress could get there and when he did in 1863 it was made with full congressional Approval

[@NewGuy2534]

I think it comes out to whether or not Tyrany is an evil that should be shunt or a necessary evil that should be used sparingly. In the end, evil remains.

[@johnlogan2732]

Definitely not Wilson.... wait what?

[@bobcunningham9590]

"How do you get reelected from a jail cell lol?" 🤥

[@PremierCCGuyMMXVI]

Even the greatest presidents in history did horrific things (Lincoln and Roosevelt, although what they did, especially Roosevelt, was very messed up) Although Wilson sucked on all sides lol

[@Danogil]

Please answer When did our Representative Republic become a Democracy?

[@michaelloedel750]

9:49 “you know who’s next” goes to add, and shows Elon Musk! The tyrannical leader of Tesla Elon Musk! (Thunder snaps) 😂😂😂

[@comesahorseman]

John Adams was a fine patriot before and during the American Revolution. As president, the Alien and Sedition Act knocked him down several notches in my eyes.

[@donnydew6207]

FDR also took control of economy

[@michaelbledsoe9296]

Cheesehead87Gamez Good.

[@JeffreyDeCristofaro]

Musician Dashi Bishi came to Asheville, NC during the Connect Beyond Festival in 2018 (I think) to give a presentation to shine a light on the issue of Japanese-American internment and how many of those who were forced into the camps lost their wealth and belongings, immediately confiscated by the American government under FDR's regime. There's also a recent book, UN-AMERICAN, a compilation featuring the photography of Dorothea Lange and Ansel Adams, who documented the camps and the effects of internment on the JAs during and after.

[@iustinianusspeedruns]

WILSOOOOON!

[@oldfan1963]

7:50 - So, the Indian Wars of the 19th century remain the record holder for longest U.S. war. Hmph.

[@EUSA1776]

Although Lincoln might have done some things which we would regard as usurpatious, it is undeniable that without him we would not have a country . The suspension of Habeus Corpus was wrong , but it was preferable to losing the border states and losing the war. Ulysses S. Grant would suspend Habeus Corpus when fighting the KKK and no one complains about that . The constitution gives the president war powers, and nothing Lincoln did was meant to extend past the end of the war. He wanted the South to rejoin the Union without punishment, without vengeance . Jefferson Davis even said that the worst day of the confederacy was when Lincoln was assassinated. Was he racist ? In his youth, most likely, as he got older , and especially during his presidency his views changed , and he developed a great respect for colored troops. He called for black voting rights 100 years before the civil rights act , and John Wilkes Booth put a bullet in his head for it . These are minor faults in the grand scheme of things. Lincoln lead the country through its greatest crucible, and he did an outstanding job , he is our greatest president . Flawed yes, such as we all are, but it takes a very arrogant person to say they could’ve done it any better. Lincoln deserves his place in our national memory, and our gratitude . Long live the Union 🇺🇸.

[@EUSA1776]

MR.Chickennuget 360 Absolutely right . Some blacks even held public office in the years after war, though Grant still had to hold martial law to prohibit the KKK and other groups from acts of violence . Civil rights did nothing but force the government to uphold the promises of a century prior .

[@Nemo12417]

Probably worst of all is that there are mainstream people in the modern day who praise the Japanese interment. Michelle Malkin comes to mind.

[@wanderinghistorian]

@Cynical Historian You showed a clip of Star Wars and said that "Order 66" from SWRotS was directly inspired by Executive Order 9066, but a simple Google Search showed absolutely no evidence of this. In fact, the only thing I found was a fan theory from someone speculating it might be the case. Now to err is human, but what upsets me as a historian about this blunder is that in order to make it you had to have heard this urban legend hearsay from someone, then posted it into a video without a primary source. You could've said it was a theory, or speculation, but instead presented it as fact when you knew you didn't have the proof in hand. That is academically dishonest, and it casts a long shadow of doubt for me over all the rest of your content.

[@johnakridge2916]

The unconditional and unlawful things they did and broke get me angry. Those rules are there for good reasons and them doing this to the public People who are vulnerable to it really gets to me

[@sanguisbumb6138]

14:49 nice John Oliver reference

[@fuzzydunlop7928]

I like his show, but I will never respect the man after that episode they did the week of the 2016 election slandering Jill Stein in order to get people to vote for Hillary. They even called her an 'anti-vaxxer' erroneously. It was under-handed and obviously partisan-motivated and it really made me lose my respect for the man and lose my trust in the show - but god is it good when it's on point.

[@willemdafoe9811]

@@fuzzydunlop7928 his foreign policy stuff is kinda weird. His thing with amlo being like a "mexican trump" was odd to say the least. So much actually interesting political topics around amlo's presidency and that is what they went with.

[@DrCatdeJong]

So you're telling me that early presidential elections was just an insult contest?

[@CynicalHistorian]

the more things change, the more they stay the same

[@moneyadams3751]

Why the hell is there a dislike on this video?

[@Synthprayer]

Money Adams woodrow wilson did it

[@GanjaEnthusiast322]

WIIIIIIIILLLLLLLLLSSSSOOOOOOONNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@YuuzahnDragon]

I wonder how the Federal Reserve's creation (birth) and subsequent creation of the "Federal Income Tax" was handled by each of the 3 branches of US GOVT.... probably not a pretty unanimous support... or popular.... but now we have this financial Leviathan and are expected to believe it'll be always there for the interests of the US economy. My question is how and why did this entity come to being?

[@fovlsbane]

Why is it foolish to hate Lincoln for being racist and denying states to leave the union?

[@tobyblack9535]

Fovlsbane well, those states 1) wanted to go against the federal nature of the US, which went against the constitution , and 2) did so to preserve the morally abhorrent institution of slavery. It's rare that people who defend "states rights" don't do so to perform a form of confederate apologism.

[@fovlsbane]

Whether something is constitutional or not doesnt really matter, the implication being that only by following the constitution of the US can you not be a fool, atleast I dont think that. Im not american, so Im not defending state rights, Im however defending people to be self determined if they so wish, whether its legal at the time or not. Also, I see people defend state rights for all sorts of reasons not to do with the south, maybe you follow different things from me. Im not a historian, so probably ignorant to many things. Potentially ignorant, I dont know that secession rights were ironed out before the civil war.

[@backyardboosters9128]

Toby Black wait wait wait. The Confederates by law would have been upholding federal nature (federation). The union would have been defending a nationalist nature unknown to the constitution. The conflict is not simple. The North by and large had very little problem with the institution of slavery, hence it continued to exist in border atates, Lincoln supported the Corwin ammendmeny. The main concern was it's spread westward were there were fewer than 20 slaves...... this had to do with representation to both sides and much less to do with slavery. The ugly truth is the South was free trade, the North were very much protectionist. Lincoln was a very huge fan of Henry Clay amongst other whigs. The free soilers had a very racist motivation for the defense of free states westward, they over and over again including Lincoln stated that they wanted to keep western lands for the white man...... republicans and former whigs believed blacks would die out without slavery, this is why Lincoln in 1865 stated "former slaves would root hog or die" which was him basically saying they would be gone in know time, he remained a member of the Illinois colonization program to his dying day, and supported Illinois blacl code laws...... It's not some simple "Southerners are monsters" story it's a very odd and strange thing. Read time on the cross very interesting read from a northerner none the less.

[@backyardboosters9128]

Fovlsbane Virginia amongst a few other states implicitly stated when ratifying the constitution that they reserved the right to leave the Union. This was unchallenged.

[@fuzzydunlop7928]

Can I see some sources for what you're saying here?

[@Pixel22-fs3tt]

I did not know that Order 66 in Star Wars was a refence to Executive Order 9066

[@pestilenceplague4765]

We are not a democracy, we are a representative republic!

[@BobbyBlockable]

Not that big of a difference, they aren't clearly defined

[@pestilenceplague4765]

Bobby Block if we were a democracy then Hillary Clinton would have won the last election.

[@MaxterandKiwiKing]

Thats still a democracy, just not a *direct* democracy

[@pestilenceplague4765]

MaxterandKiwiKing it's a representative republic

[@tobyblack9535]

Nah, still a democracy. Just because the electoral college is a thing doesn't make America a non-democracy. Government and legislative power, authority, influence and legitimacy still comes from the people.

[@SNB_1985]

Thanks Wilson

[@DracosTheGladiator]

We're a Constitutional Representative Republic. Not a democracy.

[@backtothefutureman1]

That Star Wars reference was funny.