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LOL Wilson sold the United States out to the London banking cartel and is the sole reason were in this debt mess. He later stated his regret for destroying the United States as we know it. Wilson was arguably the first president in our history to be an open corporate shill.
Much like a Republican? Yes
Much like a Democrat? Yes
Much like a conservative or liberal? Absolutely NOT.
The terms conservative (right wing) and liberal have been completely skewed by the establishment government and media to brainwash the masses into supporting a political sports statement, not a political grassroots movement.
Woodrow Wilson was a racist. However, his legislative accomplishments to me look more like those of a progressive than a conservative. That doesn't mean I agree with everything he did or that I think he was a good president. Overall I think his presidency was bad for the US. I do like his support for labor and women's suffrage, though he only supported that out of political expediency.
I wish college level history and political science courses could be like C-D.
We just divide the world into left and right wing boxes based upon an understanding of the issues that make Wikipedia appear like the most definitive work on subjects that we like or don't like.
Wilson was a progressive, of course. Our only PhD. prez, btw.
Under Wilson the newfangled federal income tax was inacted. The war on drugs started (the Harrison Act of 1914). Before Wilson there was no FBI. He also arguably put in place the notion that the US would be the world police by getting us into WWI. To his credit, he opposed prohibition, even though it was a progressive cause.
He was a racist and resegregated the federal work force (and military) which had been desegregated by Republicans after the Civil War. He was an academic, and the pseudo science of 'eugenics' was all the rage among academics and progressives at the time.
OTOH Wilson did battle with the socialists of the time like Eugene Debs. He put a lot of them in jail merely for expressing themselves under the Espionage Act of 1917. All in all Wilson was a collectivist, a man of the left.
He was EXTREMELY racist even for the times, so I guess that part of him would be right wing. He segregated all of Washington DC, separated all of the workers by their race,etc. He also created the Fed Reserve system, income tax amendment and League of Nations, all of which you could label as "progressive." He's hard to define.
Wilson was a progressive, of course. Our only PhD. prez, btw.
Under Wilson the newfangled federal income tax was inacted. The war on drugs started (the Harrison Act of 1914). Before Wilson there was no FBI. He also arguably put in place the notion that the US would be the world police by getting us into WWI. To his credit, he opposed prohibition, even though it was a progressive cause.
He was a racist and resegregated the federal work force (and military) which had been desegregated by Republicans after the Civil War. He was an academic, and the pseudo science of 'eugenics' was all the rage among academics and progressives at the time.
OTOH Wilson did battle with the socialists of the time like Eugene Debs. He put a lot of them in jail merely for expressing themselves under the Espionage Act of 1917. All in all Wilson was a collectivist, a man of the left.
This is a great picture of what Woodrow Wilson really was.
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