Volume 1: A sound on Wall Street, Xinxiang City is busy copying books Chapter 99 Wilson
Subtitle of this chapter: The thin line between popular expectations and...
“I admit that I support the Democratic Party.”
Professor Klein, who seemed a little frustrated, said in a shrill voice: "But I have to admit that in this election, the Democratic candidate Mr. James Cox and his running mate Mr. Roosevelt have already lost."
"Then I would like to ask you, why did this happen? Students who want to speak, please raise your hands..."
"Well, it's you. Mr. Mike Baldwin, you go ahead and say something."
Mike, with his freckled face, stood up excitedly and blurted out, "It's because of the wine!"
"Hahaha……"
There was a burst of laughter in the classroom.
"I'm sorry." Mr. Baldwin realized that he had not expressed himself clearly, so he scratched his head and said embarrassedly: "I mean that Prohibition, that is, the 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, caused the division of the Democratic Party..."
Prohibition really, really, really had a huge impact on the United States, and one of the consequences was the split of the Democratic Party in 1920.
Those WASP Puritans naturally applauded Prohibition. They wished that the United States could really become a Protestant country with the Anglican Church as its state religion. They hoped that everyone would be diligent and work hard to build our great America into a city on a hill and a chosen country. They just wanted to live a life of poverty, piety, and naturally lack of fun, where "except for having babies, no sex, and except for preaching, no money."
So far, Prohibition has had little impact on the Republican Party. However, if the Democratic Party, which is banding together with the white minority, encounters this issue, then it will be a huge problem.
Latins, Vikings, Germans, Celts, and Slavs are all good drinkers and love to drink. Who told them not to drink? It's good enough that they don't fight this guy, but they will vote? Why did Gesun come out of the West?
So the Democratic Party was divided into "wet" and "dry" parties over drinking, and of course the main reason for the division was race, so that throughout the 1920s it was not a truly national party. Today, the third largest party in the United States is the Prohibition Party, which is not much less powerful than the Democratic Party.
If the Great Depression had not arrived "just in time" in 1929, Prohibition would have almost rewritten the two-party system in the United States.
Mike concluded: "Because the Democratic Party, which was not in an advantageous position to begin with, was split in two, they naturally had no hope of winning at all."
Professor Klein nodded and said loudly: "Mr. Baldwin is right. A divided Democratic Party will never be able to defeat the Republican Party."
Professor Klein said, "Please take a seat, Mike. Who else would like to make a comment?"
This time, not even one hand was raised. Of course, these bachelor's and master's students at Stern College are not unaware of the real reason for the Democratic Party's defeat, but this reason is really difficult for Democrats, especially those with a conscience and attitude, to talk about.
The reason they couldn't say it was that in America in 1920, everyone hated Wilson!
Thomas Woodrow Wilson, the 28th President of the United States, is known as the "President with the highest academic status in the United States" because he not only holds a Ph.D. in political science from Johns Hopkins University, but also served as the president of Princeton University. By the way, he was the mentor of Syngman Rhee. In 1909, he was successfully elected as the governor of New Jersey.
In short, before he was elected president, he had a very good reputation in politics, academia and among the people. He can be regarded as a representative of American progressivism. Progressivism is a kind of political and economic theory that is biased towards the center. It hopes that the government will establish a mixed economy (a mixture of market economy and planned economy) to promote the continuous progress of labor human rights and social justice. Progressives are also the earliest supporters of the welfare state and antitrust laws.
During his eight-year term from 1912 to 1920, President Wilson passed a series of progressive laws: including the Clayton Antitrust Act, which systematized antitrust laws, the 18th Amendment to the Constitution, which enacted Prohibition, and the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, which established women's voting rights. There were also left-wing policies and laws, such as a substantial increase in personal income tax, agricultural subsidies for farmers, an eight-hour workday for railroad workers, and the illegalization of child labor..
Of course the most important thing is what was mentioned earlier. He joined forces with Jewish financial groups to create the Federal Reserve System and establish a national central bank.
It can be said that the Wilson administration ended the long-standing domestic disputes over tariffs, currency, and antitrust in the United States. In fact, these policies had a profound impact on the United States. If it were not for the masters of neoclassical liberalism who came out to correct the chaos in the 1960s and 1970s, the United States might have continued to move left until it became a socialist country with a centrally planned economic system.
To be honest, even without our Master Yuan, although it would be decades later, it is not impossible for USAS to appear. Hey, who can blame the fact that a great hero of the Russian nation emerged in the socialist camp at that time?
So, apart from a handful of big capitalists, the vast majority of the American people have no reason to hate this Democratic leader who fought for the rights of the working class. In fact, in a later opinion poll, he ranked after Washington, Lincoln and Roosevelt, and was considered by the American people to be the fourth greatest American president.
But this is the thinking of later generations of Americans, not the thinking of Americans in 1920.
Please don’t forget World War I, the Germans and the Chinese. What’s even more amazing is that the Treaty of Versailles, which was also hated and despised by Americans!
There is nothing much to say about the performance of the US military in World War I. These two million young Yankees came to old Europe with the ambition to save the world and the glorious mission of collecting debts for their motherland. Then they ran into the terrible Hans, and something much more terrible than Hans... Spanish Flu..
This flu killed more people than the total casualties of all countries in World War I!
In any case, the Allies won in the end. President Wilson immediately became the savior of the free world. After proposing the Fourteen Points, which was known as the "program for establishing world peace", his reputation was even higher. Even at this time, a large number of Chinese intellectuals had high hopes for him..
The result...
