Here is a question that ought to light up the social media goons.
A poll was recently taken and the question was asked….is it Attila, Genghis, Hitler, who?
One in 34 Americans – across the full political spectrum – now names a sitting president as the worst American in history. Not a serial killer, not a war criminal, not a figure safely buried in the past. The person currently holding the most powerful office on earth.
YouGov conducted its poll ahead of the 250th anniversary of the United States – a moment when Americans were being asked to step back and take the broadest possible view of their national story. Founding fathers, abolitionists, civil rights leaders, and accused predators were all on the table. And a sitting president landed at the top of the worst list anyway.
The question YouGov put to Americans wasn’t framed around partisan scores or job performance. It asked something bigger: looking back across 250 years of American life, who is the worst person this country has produced? The answer, from more than a third of respondents, was Donald Trump. The poll appeared on both a “greatest” and “worst” Americans list, a sign of how Trump remains one of the most polarizing figures in the country. No previous president in the poll’s history had managed that particular distinction – except one.
Read On…..
What say you? Who will be named the worse person in American history?
Let’s take a poll….
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“lego ergo scribo”
If it just American history during the past 250 years, then Trump will take some beating as the worst person. What a legacy for the orange slug to leave behind!
Best wishes, Pete.
A legacy that should never have been part of our history. chuq
I’m most definitely not a history buff, so I’m not all that familiar with the “terrible-ness” of former leaders. But based on what is happening TODAY, I cannot imagine ANY of them being as ignorant, narcissistic, self-serving, pompous, pernicious, and just plain evil as the one who is currently leading the U.S.
N an we have had some self centered twats as prez but this fool is the worst. chuq
Oh my, now that really opens up a can of worms, doesn’t it? There is such a rich and lengthy list to pick from, isn’t there? From Ronald Reagan nearly bankrupting the country, destroying the entire savings and loan industry, backroom deals with terrorists, etc. to New Gingrich, whom one could argue as being the “father” of the insanity going on in the GOP today, to Joe McCarthy’s red scare and all of the lives he’s responsible for ruining, to Bush’s faked “weapons of mass destruction” that launched a war that accomplished next to nothing and killed thousands of US servicemen and tens of thousands of civilians, to Chief Justice Roger Taney who authored the Dred Scott decision that declared no person of African descent could be a US citizen… When it comes to trying to pick the worst person in the US since the creation of the country we have an embarrassing abundance of riches.
But if you want to go by the sheer number of deaths caused by the actions of a single person, I don’t think anyone can match Musk. His gutting of USAID and shutting down of other US aid programs could potentially cause the deaths of millions. US aid programs have saved, on average, the lives of about 4 to 4.5 million people per year over the last 20 years, including the lives of about one and a half million children per year. So for a single person being responsible for the deaths of human beings Musk and his attempts to shut down US aid programs has to be right up there with the likes of Genghis Kahn.
We do have a very large pool to choose from chuq
I am a proud American. But I acknowledge the things that have happened in this country that have not been positive, and the people behind them. “Grouchyfarmer” mentioned Elon Musk and I think he might be South African, but that didn’t stop him from doing all of the things mentioned so well – a truly vile individual who callously caused devastating harm to our way of life. Every horrific disease that comes our way in the next 5 years will be caused by Frump’s dismantling of the systems designed to prevent outbreaks of things like polio and measles. We live in shameful times
He was born in South Africa but he’s a naturalized US citizen, alas.
Very shameful times. chuq