[N_Fiddledog]

This guy writes for American Thinker, so of course the names on his list are all Leftists. Go ahead though. Post one with righties.

I'll hold off on posting the whole article for awhile:

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The 10 Most Destructive Americans of My 8 Decades

By Frank Hawkins

America has undergone enormous change during the nearly eight decades of my life. Today, America is a bitterly divided, poorly educated and morally fragile society with so-called mainstream politicians pushing cynical identity politics, socialism and open borders. The president of the United States is threatened with impeachment because the other side doesn’t like him. The once reasonably unbiased American media has evolved into a hysterical left wing mob. How could the stable and reasonably cohesive America of the 1950s have reached this point in just one lifetime? Who are the main culprits? Here’s my list of the 10 most destructive Americans of the last 80 years...

https://www.americanthinker.com/article ... cades.html

[Thanos]

1) Donald Trump - Gozer shows up not as the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man but as an odious, obnoxious, toxic, megalomaniacal, syphilitic orange-tinted clown; the ugliest of all ugly Americans in perhaps the entire history of the United States; merrily destroying a world order that took the sacrifices in World War Two and the effort of generations to build

2) Sarah Palin - weaponized stupidity, the most public face of what will happen to a country when the politicians wreck the school system until it only produces retards

3) Joe McCarthy - pure reckless and malignant evil

4) Richard Nixon - his paranoia and criminal acts forever disgraced the presidency, and led to the terrible state of belief where too many citizens now forever believe they can never trust their own government

5) Newt Gingrich - forever destroyed the ability of the Congress to act as a body that would compromise in order to craft legislation for the good of the country

6) Lewis Powell - Nixon's appointee to the Supreme Court opened the door for the hideous belief system that corporations have the same constitutional rights as individuals; the spiritual father of the Citizens United decision that, years after his death, allowed elections to be flooded with corporate money

7) Ayn Rand - naturalized American citizen whose books and pseudo-philosophy of "greed is good, caring about others is weakness" has poisoned the mind of what used to be American conservatism and has been used by the financial sector to loot the country from end-to-end & give a false intellectual stamp of approval to the formation of the new American feudal aristocracy

8 ) Ronald Reagan - opened Pandora's box by deregulating banks, removing all restrictions from businesses outsourcing millions of jobs overseas, and making the bogus trickle-down approach to tax cuts the heart of right-wing economic policy; effectively the author of the destruction of any stability for the American working & middle classes

9) John F. Kennedy & Lyndon Baines Johnson - the fathers of the Vietnam war, whose recklessness in foreign policy led to a military debacle and social upheaval that still plagues American society today

10) Roy Cohn - McCarthy's legal lapdog; a force of pure destruction who managed to distort the law to escape any criminal consequences for his own illegal activities and to distort the law to crucify anyone who crossed him; Donald Trump's early mentor, which explains everything anyone will ever need to know about how Trump views the law as a mere annoyance to be voided at will for any whim

[Thanos]

(Dis) Honourable Mentions:

Roger Ailes, Rush Limpbaugh, Glenn Beck, & Andrew Breitbart - the American equivalent of Josef Goebbels, each and every one of them

Charles & David Koch, and Dick Armey - used Citizens United to flood elections with money; fathers of the Tea Party that formed the racist focal point for anti-Obama mania, which in turn became the vanguard for the election of Donald Trump

Jerry Falwell, Oral Roberts, Jimmy Swaggart, Jim Bakker, Franklin Graham, Fred Phelps, and about every other pustulent evangelical preacher that's ever gathered a following of angry simpletons to do their will, each and every one of whom managed to make American Christianity something full of hatred, rancor, bitterness, intolerance, perpetually lusting for money & power, and into an active menace that endangers the rights (and sometimes the very lives) of anyone unfortunate enough to end up on their endless list of enemies and targets; the sole positive contribution any of these creatures have ever made to society has been that their antics have become the motivating force behind politicized atheism, and enervated & increased the numbers of those who demand church and state to be forever separated

Mark Zuckerberg & Jack Dorsey - did fuck all to stop their media platforms from being exploited by Russian agents that used Facebook & Twitter to be weaponized for the sole purpose of electing Donald Trump; as long as the money from ads kept rolling in and membership kept increasing (even if the new "members" were computer-generated Russian bot accounts) neither of these men, or their boards of directors, or their greedy shareholders gave a damn at all about the hijacking of the 2016 US federal election

[Thanos]

The majority of these people have all been alive in my own lifetime. So has the destruction that their activities and beliefs have caused. Takes a couple hundred years to build a magnificent nation and apparently only a handful of decades to thoroughly wreck it. Of course, from the Canadian perspective, one could accurately say the exact same thing about Pierre Eliot Trudeau.

[N_Fiddledog]

So here's what I'm thinking...

There seems to be some historical constants to the fall of a great society.

Off the top of my head I can think of things like letting the Barbarians in through the gates to sabotage from within, deterioration of the societal glue of things like values and traditional standards, or devaluation of the old Gods. Attack of societal norms and movement to deconstruct with a mind to replace. The replacement being dysfunctional.

Keeping that in mind then, which recent figures seem to be working towards the deconstruction of the west - America seeming to be the last guard of Western Society.

[N_Fiddledog]

Here's American Thinkers list:


10) Mark Felt – Deputy director of the FBI, aka “Deep Throat” during the Watergate scandal. This was the first public instance of a senior FBI officially directly interfering in America’s political affairs. Forerunner of James Comey, Peter Strzok, Lisa Page and Andrew McCabe.

9) Bill Ayers– Represents the deep and ongoing leftist ideological damage to our education system. An unrepentant American terrorist who evaded punishment, he devoted his career to radicalizing American education and pushing leftist causes. Ghost wrote Obama’s book, “Dreams of My Father.”

Teddy Kennedy – Most folks remember Teddy as the guy who left Mary Joe Kopechne to die in his car at Chappaquiddick. The real damage came after he avoided punishment for her death and became a major Democrat force in the US Senate, pushing through transformative liberal policies in health care and education. The real damage was the 1965 Hart-Cellar immigration bill he pushed hard for that changed the quota system to increase the flow of third world people without skills into the US and essentially ended large-scale immigration from Europe.

7) Walter Cronkite – Cronkite was a much beloved network anchor who began the politicalization of America’s news media with his infamous broadcast from Vietnam that described the Tet Offensive as a major victory for the Communists and significantly turned the gullible American public against the Vietnam War. In fact, the Tet offensive was a military disaster for the NVA and Viet Cong, later admitted by North Vietnamese military leaders. Decades later Cronkite admitted he got the story wrong. But it was too late. The damage was done.

6) Bill and Hillary Clinton—It’s difficult to separate Team Clinton. Bill’s presidency was largely benign as he was a relative fiscal conservative who rode the remaining benefits of the Reagan era. But his sexual exploits badly stained the Oval Office and negatively affected America’s perception of the presidency. In exchange for financial support, he facilitated the transfer of sensitive military technology to the Chinese. Hillary, a Saul Alinsky acolyte, is one of the most vicious politicians of my lifetime, covering up Bill’s sexual assaults by harassing and insulting the exploited women and peddling influence around the globe in exchange for funds for the corrupt Clinton Foundation. She signed off on the sale of 20% of the US uranium reserve to the Russians after Bill received a $500,000 speaking fee in Moscow and the foundation (which supported the Clinton’s regal lifestyle) received hundreds of millions of dollars from those who benefited from the deal. Between them, they killed any honor that might have existed in the dark halls of DC.

5) Valerie Jarrett - The Rasputin of the Obama administration. A Red Diaper baby, her father, maternal grandfather and father-in-law (Vernon Jarrett who was a close friend and ally of Obama mentor Frank Marshall Davis) were hardcore Communists under investigation by the U.S. government. She has been in Obama’s ear for his entire political career pushing a strong anti-American, Islamist, anti-Israeli, socialist/communist, cling-to-power agenda.

4) Jimmy Carter - Carter ignited modern day radical Islam by abandoning the Shah and paving the way for Ayatollah Khomeini to take power in Tehran. Iran subsequently became the main state sponsor and promoter of international Islamic terrorism. When Islamists took over our embassy in Tehran, Carter was too weak to effectively respond thus strengthening the rule of the radical Islamic mullahs.

3) Lyndon Johnson – Johnson turned the Vietnam conflict into a major war for America. It could have ended early if he had listened to the generals instead of automaker Robert McNamara. The ultimate result was: 1) 58,000 American military deaths and collaterally tens of thousands of American lives damaged; and 2) a war that badly divided America and created left wing groups that evaded the draft and eventually gained control of our education system. Even worse, his so-called War on Poverty led to the destruction of American black families with a significant escalation of welfare and policies designed to keep poor families dependent on the government (and voting Democrat) for their well-being. He deliberately created a racial holocaust that is still burning today. A strong case could be made for putting him at the top of this list.

2) Barack Hussein Obama - Obama set up America for a final defeat and stealth conversion from a free market society to socialism/communism. As we get deeper into the Trump presidency, we learn more each day about how Obama politicized and compromised key government agencies, most prominently the FBI, the CIA and the IRS, thus thoroughly shaking the public’s confidence in the federal government to be fair and unbiased in its activities. He significantly set back race and other relations between Americans by stoking black grievances and pushing radical identity politics. Obama’s open support for the Iranian mullahs and his apologetic “lead from behind” foreign policy seriously weakened America abroad. His blatant attempt to interfere in Israel’s election trying to unseat Netanyahu is one of the most shameful things ever done by an American president.

1) John Kerry – Some readers will likely say Kerry does not deserve to be number one on this list. I have him here because I regard him as the most despicable American who ever lived. After his three faked Purple Hearts during his cowardly service in Vietnam, he was able to leave the US Navy early. As a reserve naval officer and in clear violation of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, he traveled to Paris and met privately with the NVA and the Viet Cong. He returned to the United States parroting the Soviet party line about the war and testified before Congress comparing American soldiers to the hordes of Genghis Khan. It was a clear case of treason, giving aid and comfort to the enemy in a time of war. We got a second bite of the bitter Kerry apple when as Obama’s secretary of state, he fell into bed with the Iranian (“Death to America”) mullahs giving them the ultimate green light to develop nuclear weapons along with billions of dollars that further supported their terrorist activities. Only the heroic Swift Vets saved us from a Manchurian Candidate Kerry presidency. Ultimately we got Obama.

[N_Fiddledog]

Myself, I'm not sure there are individuals you can point your finger at.

Maybe as vanguards of larger movements - the ones you see out in front, even if the specific mechanics of the movement behind them might be more difficult to identify and describe.

[BeaverFever]

Swift vets. LMAO!

And Nixons not the bad guy, yhe person who expkosed his crimes is!

Just more useless filth from the bottom of the intellectual outhouse that’s the American right wing.

[rickc]

How about the 7 Justices of the Supreme Court that ruled in the Dred Scott case that blacks could not be American citizens? That decision was a major catalyst of the Civil War. Now there is some real destruction for you.

John Wilkes Booth. President Lincoln wanted to treat the war like it was one big misunderstanding. He wanted to reconcile and move on with reconstruction. Booth's assassination of President Lincoln enraged the north. Now there would be severe retribution. Carpet baggers from the north moved down south and bought up everything for pennies on the dollar. The wounds from the war were allowed to fester and grow. The animosity between the north and south continues to this day.

Presidents Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren. The Indian Removal Act of 1830 (the trail of tears) was one of the cruelest events to ever happen in American history. The forced relocation of the Native Americans from their native lands in the southeastern U.S. was so thorough that I did not see a Native American in person until I was 21 years old, and that was in New Brunswick Canada.

The Justices of the Supreme Court that ruled on Plessy v. Ferguson which made segregation (Jim Crow laws) legal.

[CharlesAnthony]

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The 10 Most Destructive Americans of My 8 Decades

By Frank Hawkins

America has undergone enormous change during the nearly eight decades of my life. Today, America is a bitterly divided, poorly educated and morally fragile society with so-called mainstream politicians pushing cynical identity politics, socialism and open borders. The president of the United States is threatened with impeachment because the other side doesn’t like him. The once reasonably unbiased American media has evolved into a hysterical left wing mob.

Not a problem!
With the magic of presidential power, Lincoln declared a state of emergency and then went on to execute dissidents.