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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.

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.”

8) 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.



Dishonorable Mentions! (Just missed the list)

John Brennan –Obama’s CIA director who once voted for Communist Gus Hall for president. A key member of the Deep State who severely politicized the CIA. Called President Trump treasonous for meeting with the president of Russia.

Jane Fonda – movie actress who made the infamous trip to Vietnam during the war in support of the Communists. She represents hard left Hollywood that has done so much damage to our culture.

Jimmy Hendrix and Janice Joplin – Both revered entertainers helped usher in the prevailing drug culture and personally suffered the consequences. Karma’s a bitch.

Robert Johnson /BET – Helped popularize ho’s, bitches and pimps while making millions on great hits such as “Jigga my Nigga”, “Big Pimpin’”, “Niggas in Paris” and “Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z.” Many scholars within the African American community maintain that BET perpetuates and justifies racism by adopting the stereotypes held about African Americans, affecting the psyche of young viewers through the bombardment of negative images of African Americans. Who can disagree?

Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr./The New York Times – Once the gold standard of American journalism, the paper always had a liberal tilt and occasionally made bad mistakes. As the years have gone along, the paper has slid further and further left and today is virtually the primary propaganda arm of the increasingly radical Democrat Party. Still retains influence in Washington and New York.

George Soros – Jewish former Nazi collaborator in his native Hungary who as a self-made billionaire has poured hundreds of millions of dollars into left wing groups and causes. The damage he has caused is difficult to measure, but it’s certainly large. He has funded much of the effort to kill the Trump presidency.

Frank Marshall Davis - Anti-white, black Bolshevik, card-carrying Soviet agent. Probable birth father and admitted primary mentor of young Barak Hussein Obama.

While mentioned with the Clintons, Saul Alinsky is not on the list.

He deserves to be #1.

Can't disagree with the other choices.

I could quibble with Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin. Maybe substitute McNamara for them.

What about Chuck Shumer? Doesn’t he rate at least ahhhh, Honorable Mention? I regard him as the most dangerous man in America, although he may not have realized his true potential as yet.

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1) John Kerry – Some readers will likely say Kerry does not deserve to be number one on this list.

Ya, I'll go there...
Sure, he's a big dufus and a bad guy. But he's too dumb to be #1.

I can't argue with his list, nor the replies here.

I might add Al Gore to the Dishonorable Mention list for being maybe the foremost promoter of manmade global warming (ie, the socialist gov't needs to control the production and use of energy under the guise of saving the universe).

And an application of the iceberg principle, I might suggest the yet to be revealed damage done by those on the list is probably more than we know.

FDR was around 80 years ago. Any list without him is incomplete. FDR and Woodrow Wilson laid the ground work for all the socialist ideals that now threaten this country. Also FDR duped America into the biggest Ponzi scheme in the history of the world.

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What about Chuck Shumer? Doesn’t he rate at least ahhhh, Honorable Mention? I regard him as the most dangerous man in America, although he may not have realized his true potential as yet.

I agree with you here. He is a power hungry, dishonest, incredibly slippery bastard.

Janis Joplin and Hendrix definitely should not be on the list, they were just a reflection of the times. The other despicable weasels deserve they're place on the list.

I don't think Hendrix and Joplin should be on that list.

I would also like to add that I believe Clinton policies in the 90's enabled 9/11 to happen.

I would add these assholes to the list:
-Sharpton
-Jackson
-Hollywood (because of their influence)
-main stream media (for the divisive agenda they sell)

I would probably put that son of a bitch LBJ at number 1 because of how he killed the spirit of an entire race of people while making them think he was helping and created generations of welfare queens. What the Kenyan did ain't shit compared to what LBJ did.

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Originally posted by chellim1:

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1) John Kerry – Some readers will likely say Kerry does not deserve to be number one on this list.

Ya, I'll go there...
Sure, he's a big dufus and a bad guy. But he's too dumb to be #1.

I don’t think you can say he is dumb. He speaks accentless French for one thing. He combines a rarely exceeded gift for self promotion with the canny phoniness of the Kennedys who he admired and emulated unabashedly. Those are powerful gifts few can compete with.

I would put Phil Donahue as an honorable mention, I think he started the pussifacation of American males.

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George Soros – Jewish former Nazi collaborator in his native Hungary who as a self-made billionaire has poured hundreds of millions of dollars into left wing groups and causes. The damage he has caused is difficult to measure, but it’s certainly large. He has funded much of the effort to kill the Trump presidency.

I am not of fan of Soros, however what proof is there that he was a Nazi collaborator in Hungary? He would have been 15 at the time.

 
I would add Senator Joseph McCarthy.
 

FDR #1

A quote from the late Jeff Cooper:

"Socialism, introduced to the U.S. By Franklin Roosevelt, preaches the abandonment of self-reliance. Big Brother will take care of you. Do not fight back, because your well-being is a state concern, not a private matter.

Hence the evisceration of the American geist."

Further:

Roosevelt's policies resulted in the U.S. Being the last developed country to recover from the Great Depression. Recently released records show that the administration knew in general of Japan's plans to attack America (read: Day of Deceit). The Roosevelt administration knew of NAZI plans for the Jews of Europe - and other undesirables - as early as the mid 1930's but refused their entry into the country despite unfilled immigration numbers (read: While Six Million Died). Roosevelt tried to set fire to the constitutionally-based system of checks and balances through his attempt at "court packing." The administrations cover up of the 1943 Katyn Woods massacre in which almost 5,000 politically undesirable (at least to Stalin) Polish Officers were killed and placed in mass graves by the Soviets and Roosevelts acquiesce to their take over of Eastern Europe are but a few of his actions which make him a deserving member of this list of shame and dishonor.

In my view, FDR stands alone as the modern "political parent" of so many of the contemporary left-wing political leaders.

Silent

Maybe not Janis, nor Jimi but Jack Keraouc or Tim Leary or John Lennon. Beatniks... yuck.

Louis Farrakhan

Harry Reid belongs on the list in lieu of Hendrix / Joplin

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Originally posted by Lt CHEG:
FDR was around 80 years ago. Any list without him is incomplete. FDR and Woodrow Wilson laid the ground work for all the socialist ideals that now threaten this country. Also FDR duped America into the biggest Ponzi scheme in the history of the world.

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"Socialism, introduced to the U.S. By Franklin Roosevelt, preaches the abandonment of self-reliance. Big Brother will take care of you. Do not fight back, because your well-being is a state concern, not a private matter.
Hence the evisceration of the American geist."

Ya, the "Most Destructive Americans of My 8 Decades" list should look at what is that has been the cause of most of the destruction.
That would be the abandonment of self-reliance. Liberty requires self-reliance.... and self-reliance requires liberty. Dependency on government is the slow, corrosive end of our individual liberty.

Woodrow Wilson laid the ground work but FDR and LBJ accomplished the most when it comes to implementing these destructive policies.

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Originally posted by henryaz:
 
I would add Senator Joseph McCarthy.
 

McCarthy was right to warn about the Communist influence in both Hollywood and parts of the government. He had a nasty disposition which shouldn't detract from the truth of his allegations.