Axis of Evil: America’s Three Worst Presidents | Thomas J. DiLorenzo

"The American academic history profession periodically publishes the rankings of the greatest presidents, and Lincoln and FDR are always there at the top. And Woodrow Wilson used to be at the top, or near the top, until they discovered about three or four years ago that he re-segregated the US military."
Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on July 28, 2024. Includes an introduction by Joseph. T. Salerno.
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[@lv4077]

Sadly things haven’t changed much,in fact the federal government’s overarching hunger for power and control has only increased.

[@logangodofcandy]

With Trump passing executive orders to reign it in and having more originalist tax policy

[@lightcaesar]

Time for TEXIT!

[@thatsthewayitgoes9]

@@lv4077 I guarantee you there was MUCH LESS government control in mid 19th century! Remember, the North ( the United States of America) did not attack the Southern Slave Holding (South’s term) States, CSA. The South began the shooting war that killed > 600,000 people. The CSA was all Democrats. We can debate how parties may have changed; but in reality, they haven’t actually changed that much. The Democrats are still for subjugation of people & Republicans are for freedom & liberty as defined originally in the constitution and the legally passed Amendments.

[@sherburck]

Alot Of similarities to today! I agree with you

[@jamming8519]

due to Democruds!

[@mfredcourtney5876]

Wilson also destroyed the German culture in the US. It was a once thriving community that was terrified into oblivion.

[@Bambino_60]

Good

[@JL-XrtaMayoNoCheese]

​@@Bambino_60bigot

[@joelspivey5615]

@@mfredcourtney5876 two world wars may have had something to do with that.

[@kevinmcinerney1959]

Woodrow Wilson died in 1924. A sense of German community in the US was still very strong in the 1930s. Unfortunately this was expressed in the form of the German American Bund. The organization mimicked the Nazi regime in Germany, dividing the USA into gaue led by a gauleiter, and had a fine old romp setting up training camps, parading under swastikas, and attacking President Roosevelt's New Deal as "Frank D. Rosenfeld's Jew Deal". This organization, together with some unpleasant things done by the Germans to some of their own citizens in Germany and the territories they enslaved, took some of the zing out of the sense of German community pride in the USA after 1945, You really think it was all down to Woodrow Wilson?

[@JL-XrtaMayoNoCheese]

@@kevinmcinerney1959 The war on hypennatedAmericans was a success. You don't know the history

[@jimparker7778]

Americans born after FDR cannot conceive of an America so small. Prior to the consolidation, states held all the authority and had considerable autonomy. Nothing like that exists today

[@Jimbo898]

Woodrow Wilson by far. 1913 Federal Reserve Act

[@therealthreadkilla]

Let's not forget how Wilson got elected. If not for Teddy's bull moose party would we have had to deal with Wilson? Much like how we got Clinton. Ross Perot played his part.

[@huwhitecavebeast1972]

Yup. For that and ww1. If we had not gotten involved, not only would we have saved over 100,000 American lives, but there would have been no ww2. And a the evil that has emanated from his administration. The Fed is the key. Without it, they could not have funded their agenda.

[@robertfischer380]

Segregated the military also.. yeah, wilson did terrible damage to the country.

[@LightYagami-rz6su]

He also gave women rights to vote. Which secure his second reelection when he did that federal reserve act.

[@DavesArtRoom]

Yes, and which led to the illegal income tax via payroll tax by withholding in 1943, through the victory tax. So employers were persuaded to be tax collectors. To this day a non ratified 16 amendment had evolved into an authoritative unconstitutional IRS.

[@aaronchustz8531]

I'm from Louisiana. I was taught what was said here. All the younger folks I met think I am insane when I mention any of this. Are they teaching lies now or what? If we don't have a truthful foundation, we have nothing

[@timmotel5804]

"We" have less & less each year... Thanks. Best Regards.

[@johnreynolds2512]

You were taught poorly then. This guy is shoe-horning historical figures through his political biases.

[@DrPhilGoode]

@@johnreynolds2512President (Fill in the blank) was the best/worst president in the history of time and space. The best week in the history of all that is holy and righteous. 🤣🤣

[@DrPhilGoode]

@@johnreynolds2512This guy was a guest behind the golden EIB microphone of the Rush Limbaugh Show. If you don’t agree with everything he says, than you hate America good sir. 🤣🤣 jk

[@bobbarclay316]

You should know that this man's arguments are nothing more than a repetition of the opinions of Northern Democrat supporters of slavery. Some wars are worth fighting. Even the most well intentioned conflicts cause horrible actions by folks on all side.

[@LK-mo8bj]

Woodrow Wilson is to blame for our bureaucratic unelected class

[@covertops19Z]

I concur, but TR made that happen by running as his Bull Moose third party candidate. Which threw the electoral vote to Wilson. And TR, by executive order, started the organization that would become the FBI. Congress was dead set against a government spy/secret police force.

[@LightYagami-rz6su]

Yup! He even gave women rights to vote. Horrible idea! Pushing for egalitarianism and feminism.

[@broark88]

Most rank presidents by their "greatness". The correct way is by how faithfully they held to their oath to defend life and liberty.

[@tritium1998]

Life and liberty of everyone other than rich white guys.

[@d-day67]

And how EVIL they were by how well they served their father. (how many they killed as an offering to him)

[@SumoOrange1776]

which is why the best were the ones who did nothing and let the country do it's thing

[@kimchee94112]

In my lifetime the ones who made us suffered the most (ie economy, safety, embarrassment) are Biden, Obama, daddy and baby Bush, LJB, Clinton.

[@evaristmilian7826]

Clinton was a statesman compared to Carter.

[@Powertuber1000]

LBJ was evil

[@damianwilson391]

Everybody calls him daddy because he loves you, makes you embarrassed, and makes financial blunders with pretending that they are victories

[@patrickharper9297]

in my lifetime we have only had one decent president

[@geoycs]

Biden isn’t even close to the worst, and Trump is very obviously the worst president ever. He actually tried to steal a democratic election.

[@ManuelGarcia-ww7gj]

There was no Pearl Harbor before 1938. The Pacific Fleet would anchor at Lahaina Roads while the harbor was being constructed. When FDR ordered the Fleet to be stationed at Pearl Harbor, his top admiral argued against, saying that San Diego was a far better place to station the fleet. The Admiral feared how the Japanese might react and told FDR that the USN was not in fighting shape. FDR fired the admiral.

[@knockoutfever4]

FDR knew of the Pearl Harbor attack prior to it happening.

[@Mistrinho]

Because FDR wanted to bring America into the Pacific theater of war. Like Mike Ruffalo said: They knew about it (the attack) and they let it happen!"

[@tiahenry4743]

The U.S. let the attacks at Pearl Harbor happen in order to get into WWII for geopolitical reasons.

[@Swede2of3]

Wow....just wow.

[@arranpattison5809]

It seemed FDR knew about the pearl harbor attack in advance... Hmmmm... I wonder why? War maybe? Where else have we seen this? 🤔

[@thumbob]

In my lifetime. Biden Carter and Obama.

[@montrelouisebohon-harris7023]

YESSSS!!!!!! Yep, and before us, it was FDR & Woodrow Wilson

[@thumbob]

@@montrelouisebohon-harris7023 Ever wonder why there are no democrats on mount rushmore?

[@lancatemujhin187]

Jefferson founded the democratic party. Drumpf, Bush 43 and Carter. Dumbasses!

[@mrbill2600]

A good list, but I was born in 1939 so I've had to deal with the socialist policies of FDR and the racism of LBJ. Trump 2024, or another unmitigated disaster.

[@thumbob]

@@mrbill2600 then you know the only socialist clap trap is the Democratic Party just like it always was. Trump has 20 promises. None of it is socialist. It’s common sense.

[@MS-ig7ku]

LBJ was the worst no redeeming qualities.

[@jackbryan4676]

True, but it should be Kennedy/Johnson...LBJ retained almost all of JFK's retinue of advisors ("best and the brightest"), the Great Society was an expansion of JFK's own New Frontier legislation, and the ruinous Space Race wouldn't have been such a spending boondoggle without Kennedy's Moon speech.

[@MS-ig7ku]

Even the 1965 immigration act was something Kennedy had pushed since he was a congressman.

[@MS-ig7ku]

@@jackbryan4676 Johnson was much better at getting things done, JFK was playboy hack.

[@KHanzo]

"Worse" meaning "dangerous" here as opposed to corrupt of ineffective

[@MS-ig7ku]

One could make a case for Grant and FDR coming after LBJ.

[@user-wn6ls4xt4w]

WOW! I did my own research to confirm with what he said. Incredible, when you don't know histories failures you are doomed to repeat them. The same things are going on right now. Wake up not woke up !

[@vernonpurdy8607]

Makes me completely rethink my understanding of history. I’ve been familiar with Gen. Smedly Butler for years but the first time I’ve heard why he came to the conclusion that he did. Thanks for sharing.

[@JosephOlson-ld2td]

"Tales of the American Empire" documentary series on FewTube, over 120 episodes on our rotten history

[@AndthenthereisCencorship-xc6yi]

War is a Racket by Smedley Butler.

[@quovadis5036]

Whoever said he would, "fundamentally change America".

[@Smokr]

That would be Barak Hussein Obama - or Barry Sotoro if you don't care for his MUSLIM name.

[@joaov.m.oliveira9903]

Whoever says the American Government and institutions should NOT fundamentally change also.

[@quovadis5036]

@@joaov.m.oliveira9903 the Constitution

[@a.johnvandyke825]

Trump is the ​worst@@Smokr

[@alecfoster4413]

BO loved to quote the depressive, degenerate Lincoln. Both presidents made purdy speeches full of bromides that did not match their actions.

[@motauman1372]

A HISTORY OF CENTRAL BANKING AND THE ENSLAVEMENT OF MANKIND - Steven Mitford Goodson

[@Calico_Jim]

I strongly disagree with a lot of his viewpoints but I’m proud that the university I attended was at least open minded enough to have someone like this as a faculty member

[@Nicolas-fd4wy]

Even though I'm an Austrian by nationality and not by economic philosophy I found the talk very interesting. Especially about Wilson who destroyed the German Empire and Austria-Hungary and brought so much pain to Central Europe...

[@montrelouisebohon-harris7023]

He was a racist and a Democrat very similar to the Democrat party. We have now in the USA that are always getting involved in war and breaking the bank spending too much money.. Joe Biden has been a dictator for four years and I can’t wait to get Kamala and that bunch out of office because they have no morals!! I pray to God Trump gets reelected, and that’s before Joe starts World War III. General Pershing, who was in charge of the American expeditionary forces in Europe, in World War I, did not agree with the treaty of Versailles, and he said before they left “ we will be back!”. He knew that the treaty was going to leave the German and Austrian all on the table, porn, starving, and the United States was anything, but. Sad!! The USA had more than enough resources to help Germany to get back up on their feet and help feed those people. The general wanted a surrender so what happened during World War II would not get to the point where it destroyed Berlin & the entirety of Germany. The US government knew that the European empires were starving, and had been dying by the millions for three years. My gosh, for the love of God Americans would’ve sent food if they would’ve been able to see the conditions over there. The people in the USA are very generous and then there are the elite and that are really snobby and I think there’s a do-gooders, but they’re really just nosy. I hate to say it, but it’s true and I don’t know what it’s like to go through any kind of suffering or I have to go without a cell phone or any modern technology and if they had to add with a pen and paper they couldn’t do it. They need technology to do everything and I think the millennials were probably the last group to learn how to do mathematics found paper after elementary school

[@Kaatu-barada-nikto]

Bush signed the patriot act.

[@user-wm4mb8vu5r]

How did that work out for the people??? Not. It was to be monitored or spied on terrorists who wanted to harm the US. Instead, they used it to spy on American people. Wrong!!! I do not like agree a secret court to get permission to spy on American people. It needs to be stopped. The government, as usual, takes advantage of it own people.

[@ManuelGarcia-ww7gj]

History is written by the victors.

[@uhlijohn]

Ain't it the truth, pal?

[@Snowb-u5i]

History is not yet known but it will forever be in truth, while failures will not be revered as history in as much as only losses are the sum.

[@danielfrancoismalherbe6803]

And nobody asked if the VICTOR is a liar or not. Just look at Zionism after WW2.

[@loganross1861]

@@danielfrancoismalherbe6803 Israel was the actually winner of WW2. Everyone else lost EVERYTHING

[@alfredpaquin3563]

History is myth agreed upon. Napoleon Bonaparte.

[@emilybaumann5835]

Can you imagine a semester in a course of his?! Those people should consider themselves blessed!

[@jimwerther]

@@emilybaumann5835 DiLorenzo is a congenital fabulist

[@robertfischer380]

Didn’t the South suffer from high tariffs for decades before the war?

[@JL-XrtaMayoNoCheese]

Yes. Tarrif of Abominations

[@JL-XrtaMayoNoCheese]

Yes. The Tarrif of Abominations

[@Kaatu-barada-nikto]

He called it "civil war". I always thought it was "war between the states".

[@a.johnvandyke825]

Why not call it the treason if 1861 ?

[@coleparker]

@@a.johnvandyke825 It was the third revolution in United States early history.

[@meals69]

Thus a Civil War....

[@tradeprosper5002]

Only the confederate states call it the "war between the states".

[@FRWHELAN]

It was actually the "war against the states."

[@PortlandsTransport]

You mean they’ve been lying about EVERYTHING ? Who knew? 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@jimwerther]

Actually, it's DiLorenzo who tells a bunch of whoppers here.

[@jimwerther]

I had only watched about 1/4 of the video when I wrote my response just above. Now that I finished it, I can confidently say that DiLorenzo is the most dishonest human being I have ever heard give a speech. His falsehoods numbered over 100. Absolutely shameless.

[@David-fm6go]

Let's be real. This is ideological historical revisionism. Its the same thing the Marxists do, just from the opposite side of the gov't spectrum. There is no "universal truth" to be found in the utterances of an ideologue who forces history through a cheese grater to validate the textbook dogma.

[@montrelouisebohon-harris7023]

Yes, the ones they love so much for some of the words except for George, Washington and Jefferson Madison. Reagan was great and he was president when I was in junior high and high school. I was a kid and I knew Carter was horrible and I was only eight when he got elected😂😂

[@timishere1925]

​@@jimwertherGive us the most egregious five examples please.

[@onceamusician5408]

I'm sorry but at 30:23 HE IS WRONG. Russia had entered WWI AT THE VERY BEGINNING, august 1914. in fact it was Russian mobilization to support the Serbs that helped start it maybe Wilson paid the provisional govt to STAY in the war in 1917 , but NOT to enter it. but that is not what he said besides the provisional govt in Russia was only in power for a few months from Feb to October 1917. and it was not "before the Revolution" but after the first Revolution which had the Tsar deposed, and before the Bolshevik oct revolution which seized power from the provisional govt there was no provisional govt when Russia did enter WWI at the very beginning of it for the tsar was still in po0wer Dr DiLorenzo is shaky on Russian history ( which is one of my specialty interests) this is understandable but he really should remedy this

[@redsix5165]

This was far from a historical lecture. He just threw out facts and did not cite much or provide historical context for any of his critiques. Glad that you wrote this bc it seemed to me he made a few unsubstantiated claims.

[@theodorejohnson8580]

Yeah, and it may be true the Bolsheviks and Lennon claimed to want peace but the Marxist call for revolution and bloodshed wasn't exactly a peaceful ideology and just because a party says that one thing, doesn't mean that is what they believe. Totalitarian regimes need war in order to unite unhappy populace against an "other" in order to prevent criticism of the regime and it likely always would have lead to the bloodshed of the Soviet Union and rise of Communism regardless. The United State over inflates their contribution to European Affairs during that period especially because we anachronistically assign our world influence from today into the 1920s and we just did not have the kind of influence back then as we do today.

[@JosephOlson-ld2td]

Woody was inaugurated on March 05, 1917 and declared war on Germany on April 06, 1917

[@TheDuckofDoom.]

@@JosephOlson-ld2td 1913

[@goldenhawk352]

@@TheDuckofDoom. I believe March 5 was a reference to his reelection, a result of his campaign of "He kept us out of the war".

[@zeroconsequences]

Any president whose been a member of the CFR. Oh wait, that's all of them. Except Trump lol

[@broark88]

Lincoln, Wilson, F. Roosevelt, L. Johnson, Nixon, Biden. They line up chronologically because they each expanded on the damage the previous ones did.

[@broark88]

@@aradlatifi2524 Did you even listen to the talk? FDR took a wrecking ball to the economy, through overtly authoritarian means, the legacy of which burdens us today.

[@timmotel5804]

There won't be Any More Presidents if tRump-Publicans and their Project 2025 ever control the White House Again! Add them to Your List.

[@chuckcribbs3398]

Nixon? Obama was way worse. And Clinton was a disgrace to the office.

[@sheilagraber5577]

Clinton was terrible. He signed NAFTA and all of our good jobs were outsourced to other countries

[@Powertuber1000]

The Lincoln plan to colonize back to Africa would make him the greatest president in my book.

[@allistairlicorice310]

It certainly would have gone a long way towards making up for all the other terrible things he did.

[@MS-ig7ku]

@@Powertuber1000 Grant was worse than Lincoln, he started the Liberal Deep State. It was Grant who started the "Justice" Department.

[@coleparker]

@@allistairlicorice310 Such as?

[@allistairlicorice310]

@@coleparker Income tax, arresting political opponents including journalists and sitting politicians without trial, creating the draft, ordering the army to fire upon civilians who protested said draft. I would go on but your attention span probably isn't the greatest.

[@coleparker]

@@allistairlicorice310 First of all the Income Tax was a recognized Constitutional measure under the Federal Revenue act to pay for emergency measures, and was removed after the war. But was reenacted again 1894. Secondly, the establishment of a draft was not prohibited by any Constitution, but enforce compliance to a service was first done by George Washington himself at Valley Forge. As for the Army firing on the NY protesters, yes that was done, but do not forget that protest was not peaceful by any means. Lynchings of black men was done and black childrens orphanage was burned down, and troops were attacked. FYI since the local Militia AKA was already called up Federal troops took their place, and such actions they took, still take place even today, eg. George Floyd Riots. As for arresting political opponents, and sitting politicians. I will have to really check into that. Finally, with respects to your comment, you are reflection of this lecturer. No real research behind it, just charges and statements. Also FYI, my some of my ancestors fought for the Confederacy, one of whom, was a Brigadier General at the Battle of Shiloh, so I have no reason to be particularly fond of Lincoln.

[@justb8706]

I just want a 24h stream of DiLorenzo, never get tired of his lectures! 🤴

[@snwlooner]

Fireside rants with whiskey and cigar.

[@scottstallings5029]

AMEN! HE'S AWSOME 😊

[@JamieZero7]

Teddy Roosevelt he brought about the civil service and created the big government you have. Murray Rothbard progressive era explains it.

[@barfo281]

TR also credited Lincoln as his "progressive" (big-government) inspiration.

[@michaelroberts7770]

Kennedy unionized the feds and doomed us all... Even Franklin Roosevelt thought that was a bad idea....

[@theodorejohnson8580]

Teddy Roosevelt also used the Government to break up monopolies in the market that lead to Crony Capitalism. He did expand Government but major powers like government should be big enough to prevent rule of corporate monopolies as well. Not to mention the national parks and conservation of natural resources from him has blessed us today so not up there with people like Woodrow Wilson and FDR who seemed to only put administrative state Bureaucracies for Power sake. I also think speak softly and carry a big stick is one of the most effective Foreign policies to this date and is why Trump was able to settle down all the wars during his presidency. But yea we definitely have Government over reach from TR especially because people agreed with a lot of his policies which made the ground fertile for power creep from the Presidential seat.

[@Duranous.]

Teddy Roosevelt also deserves a dishonorable mention for third-partying Taft which directly led to the election of Wilson. Why did he third party Taft? Taft was deregulating the federal government...

[@nicolaslatorre810]

Teddy one of best presidents

[@petmensan]

Biden deserves an honorable mention on this list.

[@leuallen3000]

He is the leader.

[@shermanowens1225]

Are you aware that 10 out of the last 11 recessions were started when a Republican was in the White House since 1953.

[@modernretroradio993]

... and Trump ... and Obama .... and Dubya ... and can't forget ol' Slick Willie. All have done contemptible things as President. This is why I'm Agorist in my principles. You can't fix something that is inherently corrupt.

[@graemekrone6436]

​@@modernretroradio993I consider myself a Voluntaryist, close yeah?

[@modernretroradio993]

@@graemekrone6436 Voluntary society is ideal. But, of course, our devil-worshiping government would never allow that.

[@browngreen933]

American doughboys went to France in 1917 to save the world for Democracy. When they came home they couldn't buy a beer. 😢

[@ryanmckenzie3627]

I remember an article some years ago after it came out Lincoln was still planning colonization in 1865 that asserted that Lincoln still had a change of heart before the end. The end was only a few weeks later.

[@StairwayToHeavenOnEarth]

Partly true stuff. There is strong ideology here. All three men were s mixed bag. Wilson was a fool with Secretary of State House running the show. FDR both saved the country and created a huge welfare state. Lincoln killed slavery. The south and Jefferson Davis envisioned a slave empire with Cuba, Mexico and all the West slave. Yes, these three increased the government; crime. But we're evolving towards libertarianism. We've got maturation to do. This includes seeing the other side. I agree with all facts here, and caution against polemics and speak for really hearing the other side.

[@Tom-kt8lu]

People’s eyes are opening when it comes to the Civil War.

[@pretorious700]

Some idiot on KZbin stated that "360,000 Union troops died to end slavery" I had a hard time figuring where to start debunking that bullshit.

[@JosephOlson-ld2td]

Lincoln never freed a single slave in northern states of Kansas, Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, Delaware and District of Columbia

[@chomnansaedan4788]

@@pretorious700 That bullshit is taught in all public schools. What more people need to get behind is abolishing public education.

[@jsc3739]

@@pretorious700 They ended their own slavery to the union...

[@karlstrauss2330]

The Real Lincoln was the book that opened my eyes and exposed Yankee propaganda for what it was

[@georgiezocean]

OMG I'm not quite finished listening to this yet, but I hope he ends by saying, how much of what he is talking about in history is also happening NOW!! Paying farmers to stop farming, making rules for them to reduce the amount of stocks they can make, to protect the environment. Alright so maybe they don't come in to our homes physically to search through letters to see if we're opposed to their agendas, but they don't have to physically enter, they just monitor social media. So much of what he sites, there's a close equivalent happening right now!!

[@KAZVorpal]

I think we once discussed, back in the day, that a key point to make in regards to the war not being about slavery is: That while the secession documents by the southern states did mention slavery, secession is not war. The secessions WERE often about maintaining slavery, but the actual WAR was about, as you say, conquest to maintain an empire. Secession does not automatically, or even excusably, lead to war. The UK seceded from the EU, without war. Which wasn't an example yet when we talked about this in the nineties.

[@miller4980]

Yes. It appears that the establishment spit shines and polishes the greatest enemies of Americans with the most brilliant luster.

[@chrislee176]

I learnt from Lincoln. My spouse thought I was abusive and tried to leave, so I pulled out my guns and forced them to stay. I preserved our union. I deserve a statue in my honour as the Saviour of Marriage. I learnt from Lincoln.

[@Smokr]

So you kept your slaves?

[@mani8512]

@@Smokr What? Lincoln supported slavery, but kept no direct slave. Rather, he aggressed against the southern people, shaking them down as tax livestock -commanding them to pay up, or face invasion, bloodshed, and force. About this, Lincoln said in his First Message to the U.S. Congress, on July 4, 1861: "My policy sought only to collect the Revenue (a 40% federal sales tax on imports to South under the Morrill Tariff Act of 1861)." "I have no purpose, directly or in-directly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so."

[@johncronin9540]

@@mani8512. Biput Lincoln ran as the nominee of the newly formed Republican Party, which was adamantly opposed to the EXPANSION of slavery into new territories. This was enough for those first seven deep southern states to secede (unconstitutionally) from the Union before Lincoln ever took office. Lincoln within his party was a moderate, not yet an abolitionist. Personally Lincoln hated and despised slavery, in part because of his own personal history- his father used to hire him out for heavy manual labor, for which he never received any of the money his father was paid. And in his “house divided” speech, he made it clear that he didn’t think the nation could forever be half slave and half free. He said that in the end it would all become one or the other. Lincoln’s first inaugural speech was an attempt to prevent a civil war, which is why he stated that he had neither the power legally, nor the intention of disturbing slavery in those STATES (not US Territories) where it already existed. But he, and most Union states never accepted the opinion that secession was legal in the way that the seven, and later four more states seceded. To dissolve the Union, the process had to be the same as that which amended the Constitution. Namely, a 2/3 vote in both chambers of Congress, and then 3/4 of the states would have to vote in favor of dissolution. The only other option was through constitutional conventions, but again, it would need the agreement of 3/4 of all the states, something that wasn’t going to happen. That is the ONLY process for revoking the Constitution, and dissolving the Union. As for the Emancipation, Lincoln undertook that as a war measure, and it is very clear that it applied to those states, and portion of states still in a state of active rebellion. It was as the war went on that Lincoln gradually came to realize that there had to be “a new birth of freedom” and that slavery, the underlying cause of the war (look at the seceding states Ordinances of Secession), would have to go. Lincoln’s position on slavery gradually moved toward abolition, and the cause of that movement was the incredible carnage of the Civil War.

[@Bgrosz1]

Did your spouse want to leave because she held slaves and you wanted to free them?

[@edkonstantellis9094]

It is almost obvious that Roosevelt knew of Pearl Harbor. All US aircraft carriers were absent from Pearl without their escorts.

[@christophercollins9751]

All his allegations about Lincoln and the Union army are accurate, but the assertion that the American civil war was "about taxes" is overly simplistic and frankly not true. Certainly the tariff was a major motivating factor behind Lincoln's prosecution of the war, but the overriding reason why the deep south seceded was fear that the US government would infringe on the right to own slaves. This is indisputable; just look at contemporary primary sources, written by southerners in positions of power. Look at the official declarations of secession from the lower south states. The primary motivation behind secession was slavery, and it is undeniable. The speaker cites a speech by Jefferson Davis as evidence that the war was "not about" slavery. I don't know how to interpret this in any way other than dishonest. Davis made it painfully clear in plenty of speeches and writings--at the time of secession, not after the war was over--that the reason for seceding was to preserve the institution of slavery. Lincoln was a tyrant and a sociopath. The oligarchs in the Confederacy were no better. You don't have to pick a team.

[@hottuna7]

I call BS! If you remove the humanistic aspect of "slavery" out of the equation, then all you are left with is the monetary aspect. Many northern businesses could not compete with the extremely low labor cost enjoyed by slaveowners. Even Lincoln admitted in a letter that he only "freed the slaves" to save the union. The humanistic aspect has been completely overplayed; after all, the US constitution says that Black people only count as a three fifths vote. What does that tell you? Humans have been using/abusing each other for power/money since the very beginning. When will people open their eyes to the reality that all life is a competition and *HAS NEVER BEEN FAIR.* Currently, in the country of Liberia, where you have to be Black to be a citizen, 92% of the people live at the poverty level. You obviously can't blame racism for that. I repeat, humans have always used/abused each other, which is why any competent detective will tell you that you first look at "cui bono" (who benefits) to understand/solve a crime.

[@Richard-ki4nk]

The paradox seems to be How do non centralized groups defend against powerful centralized groups without centralizing

[@mikesheppard5241]

You're going to have to stop eschewing the wielding of power, until you can retrain another generation of youth to the truth

[@David-fm6go]

Abstract utopian ideology meets the real world. Austrians/Libertarians share the same utopian flaw of so many other ideologies, because it branches out from the same tree of classical liberalism and inherits its utopian world view, optimistic view of human nature and abstract approach to the human experience. A traditional conservative, who understands the human nature/anti-utopian angle can see right through Libertarianism and thus sees little difference between it and modern liberalism on the core fundamental level (regardless of the polar opposite approach to government power).

[@darktimesatrockymountainhi4046]

@@David-fm6goThis is pretty much why I’m no longer libertarian. My conscious decision to set aside my optimism has opened me to see other likely possibilities, caused me to more strongly mistrust government (though it is already a feature of libertarianism), and prompts my family to worry about me! 😆 Sometimes anarchy seems just as attractive to me as so-called social order.

[@johnx983]

New technology

[@David-fm6go]

@@darktimesatrockymountainhi4046 For me it is a tendency to view the world as chaotic, which (cutting out all the American New Right crap) is the core of traditional conservative thought when it comes to foreign policy and the world at large. The world is chaotic and dangerous, but at the same time "most" actors on the world stage are rational (rational does not mean good or reasonable mind you). Take trade for example, the libertarian and neoliberal dogmatist would assert that free trade is superior because of efficiency, freedom of choice and competition. The realists would counter that there is no such thing as "free trade" and that the world market is dominated by cartels, heavy handed state influence, and concerted efforts to suppress competition through a variety of tactics. Ironically libertarians agree that what presently exists in the world is not free trade either, however they play the "Not real real x" game that socialists also play in this regard. Both agree that the present dynamic is not free trade, libertarians because it hasn't been tried yet, realists/traditional conservatives because free trade is a utopian fantasy that can never exist in a real world. China cheats on trade because they have every rational incentive to do so, it is hard to argue that they have not benefitted from doing so (but also are and will pay a price for how far they have took it). The fact that the country that does this, is a surveillance state that is shown every willingness to leverage its economic ties to silence criticism of it's oppressive regime only adds to the dynamic. Free trade with a country like China, is a recipe for becoming dominated by a foreign power. In the ideal world, free trade is suppose to liberate everyone. In the real world, it makes you the prisoner to most manipulative and domineering regime. and yes, you could make this same case against the US itself, which doesn't refute my point, it only strengthens it. Early American nationalists like Alexander Hamilton, Henry Clay and Abraham Lincoln were not globalists as they are so often maligned by libertarian ideologues, they were the exact opposite. They saw the world as a dangerous and domineering place and that the only way to secure the victory in the American Revolution was to avoid being dependent on the leading super power of the time (Great Britain). Typically those three are maligned because of their support for the American financial system and the establishment of a national bank, which is the big boogeyman for the libertarian. However, at the time global finance was dominated by the British and the mindset of the nationalist and realist was that the development of domestic financial capability would lessen the dominance of the British over the American Economy. Britain was keen to use its vast financial resources to dump cheap iron at a loss onto the American market and work through agents to assist pro-free trade elements (usually rail executives and plantation owners) to remove the tariffs on iron. Once the mills of Pennsylvania and Ohio were closed, the British would jack up the price since there was less supply on the global market. This is how free trade works in reality, its a game that is always manipulated by the cartel with the biggest capital reserves and the most ability to project foreign influence to manipulate the domestic affairs of other countries. Britain in the 1800s, the US in the 20th century and the Chinese in the 21st century.

[@alfredpaquin3563]

We didn't find out until the Soviet Republic collapsed that the 2 nominations for Secretary of State and Secretary of the Treasury by FDR were both spies for Stalin. Thank God, FDR died, and Truman became President.

[@btspyglass4077]

Every Democrati from Wils o n to FJB

[@PiedFifer]

States don’t have rights. Only individuals have rights. No state may claim the right to abrogate the rights of some individuals for the economic benefit of others. Any state that claims such a “right” is a threat to the individuals of the U.S.

[@hazchemel]

Thanks for that. First time I've heard this stuff about Lincoln.

[@jimwerther]

Don't believe what you heard here. DiLorenzo is a well-known "Lost Causer", who twists history around to fit his narrative. Just as it relates to Lincoln, consider the fact that he made no mention of Marbury vs. Madison, the Articles of Secession of every single state of the Confederacy, every one of which focused on slavery, and Alexander Stephens's Cornerstone Speech. That's just a start. DiLorenzo is a propagandist at best, and a full blown liar at worst.

[@jimwerther]

Now that I finished watching the video, I can confidently say that DiLorenzo is the most dishonest person I have ever heard give a speech. The man is utterly shameless. Not a word of truth contained therein.

[@joakimandersson3884]

​@@jimwertherBS your liar!🤡

[@ram76921]

​@@jimwerthercrap comment, Wilson and FDR were atrocious

[@jimwerther]

@@ram76921 See, facts are wonderful things. I'm no fan of Wilson or FDR, but DiLorenzo is a congenital fabulist.

[@RogerPence-cg2oo]

LBJ was instrumental in passing the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, significantly expanding the rights and freedoms of non-white Americans. These expansions of freedoms should be praised and celebrated

[@MaxPower-11]

First let me say that although I disagree with many of this historian’s ‘interpretations’, I am appreciative of the fact that he’s given the right to freely express his opinions. As for the Civil War… his main argument is that “hey, the South voted to succeed and it was their right to do so under a voluntary union”. Well, while nominally that is true, he does seem to forget the fact that there were millions of human beings, born in those southern states, which were totally disenfranchised from having any say in such a decision by virtue of being in bondage. If we are to take a retrospective look at history then would I argue that their rights and wishes should have been considered. After all, I do seem to recall that minor little item in the Declaration of Independence about all men being created equal and everything.

[@curtissnow9546]

Wilson is garbage, but Lincoln and Fdr make my blood boil.

[@jn71000486]

LBJ should be way higher on everyone’s list. Signing the civil rights act rapidly accelerated America’s decline.

[@michaelmisczuk1188]

Can you give a short example of Lincoln ? TX. Fdr, yes.

[@chasekemmerling1676]

why Lincoln

[@scottstallings5029]

They are all evil war mongering sociopaths. God help us 🙏

[@Individual_Lives_Matter]

@@chasekemmerling1676He was a tyrant and he centralized power, which always leads to corruption and arbitrary or even unintentional tyranny/injustice.

[@homewall744]

Would love to see these stories in a debate among contrary scholars to see how they'd respond/react.

[@SheepWillbeSheared]

Dilorenzo debated Harry Jaffa on Lincoln's legacy. Jaffa just repeated all the clichés you would expect.

[@goldenhawk352]

@@SheepWillbeSheared The only geed thing I ever saw "Honest Abe" Lincoln do was when he looked at the camera in despair as his wife asked him if she looked fat in her dress. Truly one of history's greatest commercials.

[@jimwerther]

DiLorenzo has been debunked more times than we can count.

[@brianschwatka3655]

I relate the civil war to a broken marriage. Person goes to their spouse "hey this isn't working I am going to leave". The spouse says "If you leave I will kill you". The individual leaves and the spouse does in fact kill their partner. Doesn't matter why the other person wanted to leave the partner is wrong for killing that person for leaving.

[@graemekrone6436]

This is exactly why I despise all governments around the world, hence I consider myself a Voluntaryist!

[@claygreen4723]

Hard to narrow it down to 3 but I would go with Wilson, FDR, and LBJ. Notice any connections? And if I had a fourth vote I would probably go with Wilson again. The Federal Reserve and WW1 make him the best worst President.

[@manueldeabreu1980]

I haven't looked at the video but my three would be: 1) Woodrow Wilson - Ironically if Teddy Roosevelt doesn't pick Taft as his successor, who was a disaster, and runs as a third party, Taft or ANY OTHER candidate beats Wilson. Roosevelt and Taft voters combined beat Wilson more than Bush Sr. would have beat Clinton if Ross Perot doesn't run. 2) FDR - He is the ONLY President to break with Washington's precedence to run and win more than three terms. He also created the super government we have today with all the entitlements. 3) Buchanan - Completely ineffective and just ran out the clock on tough issues with his presidency leaving a Civil War for his successor. Update: I got two out of the three. Lincoln took the hit for cleaning up Buchanan, Pierce and Fillmore though Buchanan did the most damage.

[@crow_poem6369]

Who does Dr. D think are the 3 best presidents? I have my own opinion but would be interested in other opinions.

[@TheLifesentence2278]

Jefferson Monroe Coolidge.

[@friendlyone2706]

Never underestimate the value of Washington refusing a kingship.

[@paulcosta8297]

John Adams, Jefferson, DJT

[@WastdTrashPanda]

@@paulcosta8297 DJT is the best we've seen in our lives but he doesn't stand with people like Jefferson, Washington, and Coolidge.

[@jimwerther]

Washington, Reagan, Coolidge.

[@darthnatas953]

Before I watch, let me guess: 1. Lincoln 2. Wilson 3. LBJ Honorable mention: FDR

[@harrymills2770]

Lincoln did the most damage to federalism. Wilson's downstream of that, FDR's downstream of Wilson, and LBJ's downstream of FDR.

[@mystifiedoni377]

3:18 You were right

[@barfo281]

Dishonorable mention: DJT.

[@WasFakestCenturyAesthetics]

​@@barfo281you voted for the guy who helped start the Iraq war?

[@WasFakestCenturyAesthetics]

​@@barfo281the one whose senility has been concealed by the people around him for years, while taxpayers gave hundreds of billions to the corrupt country where his son had a cushy fake job?

[@tomjiga9397]

See it started in 1850 a few hundred thousand. Now were 35 trillion in the red. Now what?¿

[@randallsmith5631]

3 worst Prez pre-civil war Franklin Pierce, Mallard Fillmore & James Buchanan. 8OO,OOO estimated civil war dead

[@jscottupton]

"The Truth" is very difficult for the average person to find...much less accept.

[@friendlyone2706]

Censorship still reigns

[@jefffortney4261]

Wilson, FDR, LBJ, Jimmy Carter, Obama, and Biden. Notice a trend??? All wanted to expand the Federal Government.

[@chuckcribbs3398]

Obama put Muslim Brotherhood members in his cabinet and federal offices. Fact.

[@TheLifesentence2278]

How many 10s of millions of children were never born because their forefathers were killed in lincolns war.

[@MarikHavair]

Lincoln played no role in the causality of the war.

[@jimwerther]

​@@MarikHavair Not none, but very limited.

[@coleparker]

My ancestors fought on both sides, but the first shots were fired by the Confederates in SC.

[@TheLifesentence2278]

@@coleparker why do you think Lincoln garrisoned ft sumpter?

[@coleparker]

@@TheLifesentence2278 Fort Sumter was a permanent garrison before Lincoln was Elected. What he tried to do was reinforce it.

[@rogermenendez4052]

I really thonk LBJ was as evil as FDR.

[@CoronisAdair]

Wait a minute... At 30:30 he claims that Russia entered WWI because Wilson paid Russia off. Russia was one of the original combatants. They declared war on the Austro-Hungarian empire in defense of Bosnia, which started the defensive alliance cascade that really kicked the war off. If the presenter can get something so basic factually wrong, it makes me doubt the veracity of his whole lecture. I don't have the time to go over the lecture with a fine-tooth comb to fact check all his statements, though.

[@betsmiley3588]

To keep Russia in the war, the Wilson administration extended tens of millions in credits for armaments and military supplies to Kerensky’s government, with J.P. Morgan also raising money in direct support of his cause.

[@CoronisAdair]

@@betsmiley3588 Respectfully, while that is an excellent point, that's not what the presenter said. The presenter said that Russia ENTERED WWI as a combatant due to being paid off by the Wilson administration, which is blatantly false. What he said about the Czarist government collapsing during the war, which led to eventually Lenin taking power was true... However you cannot lay this at Wilson's feet. Look at the treaty Germany made the Leninist government sign to get the Soviet's out of WWI. It made the later Versailles treaty look downright tame in comparison, with the huge swaths of territory and population the Soviets turned over to Germany. I'm not sure the Czarist government would have survived signing a similar treaty to bow out before being overthrown.

[@StubbsMillingCo.]

333,000,000 - U.S. population 83,250,000- 1/4 of population-that would have the artificial limbs after the Civil War….

[@howelltaylor6774]

God bless Thomas DiLorenzo the "Stonewall" of southern literary vindication of the Confederacy. Deo Vindice

[@chuckcribbs3398]

If Union troops had left Fort Sumter, there may have never been a war between the States.

[@uhlijohn]

FDR also moved the Pacific Fleet from San Diego to Pearl Harbor and top admirals objected and called Pearl a "mouse trap" and foolish to base the fleet in such a restricted location well within the reach of a Japansee naval task force. FDR ignored them because he was using the fleet as bait for the Japanese and it worked like a charm. FDR once said "In politics nothing happens by accident. If it happens it was planned that way."

[@valcaron]

Same logic as "Those cartoonists at Charlie Hebdo should've known what would've happened when they exercised their rights to draw Muhammad. What happened to them is their own fault."

[@johngeverett]

Very informative. The three presidents he lists were never my favorites, though i did hold Lincoln in high regard until judge Napolitano spoke of his abuses. Plenty of specifics in this presentation to support his position. Much to think about.

[@TexasIndependenceNow]

Dr. D. shuts it down again... 🤭💪

[@geoffreyweiss3848]

Lincoln formed the original H.O.A. in 1861.

There's another myth which needs to busted here. The notion of a "Unified South" or a "Consolidated Confederacy" against the Union is a total lie. Many (poor) Southern whites actually opposed the war. The only reason that so many Southern whites signed up to fight in the first year was ... they had to. Peer pressure was key, along with the initial propaganda surge that the Union was "violating their states' rights." Also the need for food and clothing was so great for so many of them, since many of them were poor, on large account because of the corrosive effects of slavery on free enterprise. A n honest laborer cannot compete with free labor, after all. When it comes to desertion rates among soldiers, they were much higher among the Confederate armies compared to Union forces. One of the most remarkable accounts was during Union General William Tecumseh Sherman's "March to the Sea," during which he waged total war from Atlanta to Savannah. His army actually grew in size, to such an extent he had to turn away volunteers. Many of those new recruits were white Southerners, as well as freed blacks. This Magnolia Myth of a "Courageous yet Defeated South" filled with liberty-minded people standing up to an abusive Union federal government is simply not true. I encourage everyone to read the following books for more information and to verify my comments: Vindicating Lincoln: Defending the Politics of Our Greatest President, by Thomas L. Krannawitter War Within a War; the Confederacy Against Itself, by Carleton Beals Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong, by James W. Loewen

[@nomadmarauder-dw9re]

I worked at Dunleith Plantation. There I got familiar with Dahlgren. He was put in command of Mississippi forces and demoted for refusing to commit his forces to the Confederacy at large. This was a common attitude in the South. How can you have a cohesive strategy when local forces stay local?

@@nomadmarauder-dw9re EXACTLY, which completely undermines the whole political theory of secession, which Dr. DiLorenzo espouses.

[@nomadmarauder-dw9re]

If secession is legal, can we kick states OUT?

[@joedunlap3226]

“Local forces”, i.e., a decentralized military, requires real consensus building - which severely limits the ability of a national government continually fighting foreign wars. Sounds like a good thing to me. Thomas Jefferson said “he feared a central bank more than a standing professional army”, and he was not alone with this. What does this tell us? Many of the Founders opposed central banking AND a standing professional army [both of which go together, btw]! Why else does the 2nd amendment refer to “a well regulated militia”…? Let’s contend for a decentralized military.., and everything else!

[@coleparker]

The increase in the desertion Rate in the Confederate did not occur until the late winter of 1864 and up through March/April or 1865. As for the Sherman, it was the increase in free slaves marching with his column that forced him turn them away, not white southern men.

[@danjohnson8556]

Woodrow Wilson, FDR, LBJ, Carter, Obama, Biden

[@josephthorsen2968]

I never understood why southern states never pressed their right to succeed in the US Supreme Court. Anu ideas?

[@friendlyone2706]

War sounded glorious?

[@MarikHavair]

The same as the reason for the secession, they were getting outvoted in elections because there A: were more northerners B: the northerners were increasing in populace faster C: At least in part due to huge incomes of Euro migrants like Germans who were strictly anti-slavery to Northern states. Even if they retained slavery as an institution they would have no political 'capital' in the country and that inevitability made secession even outright war seem desirable.

[@josephthorsen2968]

@@MarikHavair I understand this position, but it still doesn't directly address the question as to why not press your case - the right of a state to succeed from the union - directly to the Supreme Court.

[@PiedFifer]

Funny how libertarians fail to recognize the difference between initiated and retaliatory “force”. I think Von Mises knew this crucial distinction.

[@chomnansaedan4788]

I took for granted how history is written by the winners.

[@sammyhagger12]

I like this guy already.

[@ManuelGarcia-ww7gj]

I used to think that if the US had stayed out of WW1, there would not have been a WWIi, but now I know that there very likely would not have been a Cold War, either.

[@BillLaBrie]

WW2 and the Cold War were continuations of ww1.

[@tiahenry4743]

The Rothschilds have been starting wars since the late eighteenth century.

[@tritium1998]

Implying there weren't cold wars and world wars between your colonial powers before WW1.

[@ManuelGarcia-ww7gj]

@@tritium1998 Hardly. We declared war on Spain in 1898 over Cuba. We then smashed the ill prepared Spanish fleet and became an empire which, as it turned us into a modernize Roman Empire. The United States has been at war with someone in many places ever since. Woodrow Wilson just barely got us involved in WWI. Had we not fought in WWI, there would not have been a WWII. No WWII might well have prevented a Cold War between the US and the USSR.

[@Bgrosz1]

It's so easy to believe that if you do nothing there will be peace, but history shows otherwise. It's like thinking if you never stand up to bullies there will be no bullies or if you never fight crime there will be no crime. Of course, the opposite is true.

[@brotherfred2669]

To ignore unconstitutional moral failure of The practice of Slavery is disingenuous

[@kennethobrien8386]

Obama, Biden, Bush 2, FDR

[@themaestro3034]

🤡

[@d-day67]

You only forgot a few: Clinton, Bush 1, Carter, Ford, Nixon, Johnson, Eisenhower, Teddy, Grant, Johnson, Jackson,...and I am sure many others that we just don't have the facts on yet.

[@ralphbernhard1757]

Excellent description for why Europe went down the drain 70 years later. Unlike Washington DC, which killed and maimed millions of Americans in order to enforce top-down single hegemony on the North American continent, Europe fought wars to "avoid the single hegemony", and thereby failed to balance Washington DC 's newly aquired power out. The USA was never a democracy. Washington DC never implemented what the majority wanted, a bottom-up balance of power. The Civil War ended that. Washington DC used strategy and trickery to fool the American people to become an empire, rather that a state for the world's destitute, oppressed, and hungry. Now, it's just another empire, a "dictatress" (Adams' farewell address warning) to the world.

[@patriciayohn6136]

President James Buchanan is resting in peace knowing now that HE WASN'T THE WORST PRESIDENT EVER!!!

[@hotrox2112]

250 year average for a Dynasty to fail...

[@tritium1998]

​@@hotrox2112 What dynasty? What average? It has different presidents every decade, and many regimes like the Confederacy and Germany don't even last 100 years.

[@ladyjade6446]

lol

[@ralphl7643]

Wilson didn't wait 3 months to ask to declare war, it was less than one month--March 4 to April 2.

[@CJinsoo]

short list. LBJ has to be 3B.

[@KAZVorpal]

Tom, you know I agree with your premise, but your citation of the Crittenden-Johnson resolution is still weak: You are forced to point out that the first two claims in it are false, before then citing the third claim as proof of your thesis. That hardly leaves it as a credible source.

[@PeterM8987]

This is an awful revisionist version of Lincoln's presidency. The denigration of Lincoln is risible.

[@ericsierra-franco7802]

Totally agree!

[@DxV04]

It isn't revisionist if the words he quoted Lincoln saying were indeed his. The sale of his wife's slaves is a fact! It is also a fact that he didn't care about emancipation.

[@AJ-lu3wx]

What I hate most about talking worst past presidents is that it's past. People are already dead and taxes have already been levied. Famous last words: Read my lips...

[@patriciayohn6136]

Wilson, FDR, Obama/Biden!!!

[@johnjacobjinglehimerschmid3555]

While I'm loathe to hear that information opposed to std school of thinking is refreshing. It is refreshing to hear information that is not in the standard school of thought. I like hearing this kind of information.

[@coleparker]

I listen to this guy for much of the video. While I concede his knowledge of Economic systems , some of his views and statements on the Civil war are at best ignorant, bordering almost on the moronic. I am positive that Shelby Foote and other noted historians of the conflict are rolling over in their graves.

[@OLESOUTH_NAS500]

Before yall go glazing Lincoln how bout yall watch Axis of Evil: America's Three Worst Presidents Thomas J. DiLorenzo I’m not a racist in any way, but history was written by the victors

[@karlstrauss2330]

The Civil War wasn’t about slavery, it was about preserving economic dominion over cotton production.

[@pretorious700]

Try telling that to the public school indoctrinated hoi polloi

[@sanniepstein4835]

The Underground Railroad never existed, either. /s

[@user-ij6mn1vj5s]

Yeah, what better way to ensure economic dominance than free labor.

[@rosanneshinkle4133]

Taxes

[@JakeLeMonde]

Regarding the Civil War, can you imagine a fractured continent with a foreign power controlling access to the Mississippi River at New Orleans? Imagine an alliance between Great Britain and the Confederacy? The Confederacy was a clear and present danger to the security of the United States. Who knows if the Confederacy would have maintained their own union. Yes it was a northern state and invasion of the South. So what?

[@joemccarthy4270]

Maybe the only legitimate President ever elected was Harrison whom history claims was too ignorant to get out of the weather and died of a "cold". Another thing not mentioned here is that Jefferson Davis, the head of the Confederacy (which Northern propagandist claimed was treasonous) was never tried for treason ;and John Surratt ,(who was suspected of plotting to assassinate Lincoln was later found in the Ninth Company of the Pontifical Zouaves, in the Papal States, under the name John Watson) was never tried though Northern Propagandists deified Lincoln. The real issue that both the plantation owners and northern industrialists had was with private property being in the hands of the unwashed masses who were not part of their group. Yes the northern industrialists and the plantation owners of the south used tariff collection as an excuse to exterminate the common persons; as neither plantation owners or northern industrialists fought in the war. Stephen Duncan is only one of many who did just exactly that in the south , it is easy to discern that prior to the mass death caused by government that these southern plantation owners in their deeds and actions supported the rejection of tariffs and violence of the north simultaneously just as the northern industrialists prior to the war supported anti tariff sentiment in the south and succession. One of the deadliest days in the civil war not mentioned historically was in the city of New York because the Irish displaced rebelled against conscription which eventually lead to a New York News paper being defended with Gatling guns. One can easily see that all the governments of the world have a deep resentment of the common person owning property even until this very day.

[@ana1ysis]

I wonder how many of the Civil War executed deserters were recent immigrant Irish forced into service. I know the Irish were fighters. 2/3 of all Medal of Honors went to Irish Americans and 10% of all MOH were born in Ireland.

[@evaristmilian7826]

Barry, The Cadaver & Carter.

[@jimwerther]

LBJ was worse than Barry

[@evaristmilian7826]

@@jimwerther At least LBJ didn't hate America!

[@jimwerther]

@@evaristmilian7826 Intentions aside, LBJ likely did more damage than Barry.

[@evaristmilian7826]

@@jimwerther We ain't seen nothing yet! Barry took race relations back to the 60's. I hadn't heard of the Black Panthers since early 70's. He could have done so much good, instead he brought race hate to America.

[@joeharris3878]

First time I've heard someone matching my 3 worst president list .

[@tritium1998]

Lincoln was actually a softie on the South. He didn't end it as early as he could've, and he didn't even execute the Southern leaders.

[@bmphil3400]

A lot of the Southern leaders were former Northwestern leaders......such as Lee.

[@zeroconsequences]

Seems he he was only repaying the courtesy. The South could have captured the capitol due to it's location on their very first campaign but chose not to for optics and gentlemanly behavior.

[@OLESOUTH_NAS500]

@@bmphil3400Lee was from VA so of course he would support the southern cause, but when this man said “ the war against southern independence “ that sounds about right, history was indeed written by the victors

[@tritium1998]

@@zeroconsequences WDC wasn't that vitally important, just like Moscow during Napoleon. The Southern capital was in Virginia but it didn't get captured quickly because Lincoln was a softie like I said.

[@justjosie0107]

Well, lincoln was informed of the war crimes committed by sherman and sheridan against Southern civilians. It actually had an established routine. So he was a tyrant and established overreaching federal hubris.

[@KAZVorpal]

You didn't mention that another political reason for the empty Emancipation Proclamation was to keep Great Britain from entering the war on the side of the CSA, which it was considering doing.

[@notyetsilenced9746]

Fantastic video and a great public service.

[@Freddy-Da-Freeloadah]

WE HAVE COME SO FAR!!! Just 30 years ago, everything DiLorenzo is saying was unthinkable!! Sad IMHO