“Said goodbye to his mama, as he left South Dakota, to fight for the red, white, and blue,
He was 19 and green, with a new M-16, just doin’ what he had to do.”
That's because you don't know your history.
Roosevelt was an avid eugenicist. Roosevelt was closely allied with Madison Grant and William Temple Hornaday, who founded the Bronx Zoo and put a black kid named Ota Benga in a zoo cage and displayed him as a subhuman species. The child later committed suicide.
Roosevelt wrote a glowing endorsement of Madison Grant's book The Passing of the Great Race, which Hitler kept under his bed and referred to as his "Bible."
Roosevelt's endorsement: "The book is a capital book; in purpose, in vision, in grasp of the facts our people most need to realize. It shows an extraordinary range of reading and a wide scholarship. It shows a habit of singular serious thought on the subject of most commanding importance. It shows a fine fearlessness in assailing the popular and mischievous sentimentalities and attractive and corroding falsehoods which few men dare assail. It is the work of an American scholar and gentleman; and all Americans should be sincerely grateful to you for writing it."
Opposition to scientific racism and eugenics was mainly raised by Christians at the time, and was dismissed by Grant as "sentimentality."
Roosevelt strongly opposed "unfit" races being freely available to reproduce, in keeping with Darwin's prescription in his book The Descent of Man, and he advocated for forced sterilization of those deemed unfit to reproduce.
He was a product of his time, and eugenics was mainstream thought back then. We shouldn't judge too harshly.
But Hitler got his ideas from the U.S. eugenics movement. Calling Roosevelt "Proto Hitler" is not altogether unfair.
Pictures below: Teddy Roosevelt at the St. Louis World's Fair, where African pygmies were put in a zoo display as "missing links" in evolution. Also pictured: the zoo display.
@Kurt_Steiner Civil war veterans were still alive at the time. Flying contraptions. Artillery that can hit you that you cant see, metal monsters that you cant destroy firing automatic weapons. Hopefully we don't have a more modern war.
the record for most living generations at one time (seven), which was achieved in 1989 in Wisconsin. i wonder if they told the daughter there was a time crunch
>be hunter gatherer
>look at mountain
>"yeah it's beautiful"
>starve
>plant wheat instead of hunting and gathering
>wheat works
>too much wheat
>need somewhere to put wheat
>build granary
>need someone to count wheat
>invent writing
>need someone to guard wheat
>invent state
>need someone to trade wheat
>invent money
>money works better than wheat
>need somewhere to put money
>build bank
>bank lends money to guy with idea
>guy builds mill by the river
>mill needs 40 guys
>40 guys move next to mill
>40 guys need bread, beer, a church
>bakery, tavern, church move next to 40 guys
>another guy borrows for a second mill
>mill town
>mill town gets a port
>port town
>everyone within 200 miles hears there's money at the port
>everyone within 200 miles shows up
>run out space
>can't build out
>build up
>more
>skyscraper
>civilizational loop compounds
>order a private taxi for your burrito
The Germans had never seen anything like: "We were surprised to see them walking. We had never seen that before….When we started to fire we just had to load and reload. They went down in their hundreds. We didn’t have to aim, we just fired into them.”
The Great War combined with shutting down immigration dramatically affected internal migrations as the South (black and white) moved North for the industrial jobs.
Almost everyone has forgotten that President Trump and Marco Rubio cleaned out the Chinese from managing the Panama Canal not long after they took office last year.
Now with this deal in Greenland, coupled with the Venezuelan removal of Maduro, President Trump has secured the western hemisphere from any potential Chinese or Russian infiltration.
"National security" is a left-coded, universalist New Deal ideological construct; it is so ubiquitous that it is meaningless, and anyone even remotely right of center should support throwing this concept into the dustbin of history.