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If we look back at the history 
of the Democrats, or let's just 

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take the origins of 
progressivism, where did Woodrow

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Wilson stand on the First World 
War? 

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Looks like he was very much 
interested in joining the First 

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World War on the side of Britain
when the Lusitania was sunk in 

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1915 off the coast of Ireland. 
A ship carrying munitions to the

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British. 
It was sunk in 1916. 

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He runs on a platform of. 
He kept us out of war and in 

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April of 1917 Woodrow Wilson 
declares war on Germany, 

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conscripting another word for 
enslaving 2.8 million men into 

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this European conflict, getting 
116,000 men killed. 

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I'm sure feminists are very up 
in arms that it was only one of 

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the genders that was conscripted
and forced to perform deadly 

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labor against their will. 
The origins of progressivism are

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very pro war because it's seen 
as a great mechanism to expand 

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the scope and power of the 
state. 

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Franklin Roosevelt obviously 
intended to get the US into the 

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Second World War. 
There was a Secretary of War 

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diary by Henry Stimson on 
November 25th of 1941 where he 

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says the president predicted we 
could be attacked as soon as 

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next Monday. 
The goal was to see how we could

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maneuver the Japanese into 
making the first move. 

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This was a long provocation that
Roosevelt's administration had 

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had with the Export Control Act 
of 1940, sanctioning Japan, 

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putting U.S. troops in the 
Philippines and around the 

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Japanese area. 
It's referred to as diversionary

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foreign policy. 
Where he he goes, Look, the New 

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Deal that we gave people, we 
said it would end the Great 

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Depression. 
It caused the double dip 

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recession of 1937. 
Unemployment went back up. 

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We need something to distract 
the population. 

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And so Franklin Roosevelt was 
constantly looking for something

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to distract us with. 
And a war with the Axis powers 

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was something he happily got us 
involved in. 

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Harry Truman, of course, the 
Democrat went to war in Korea. 

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It was Democrats like Lyndon 
Johnson and Kennedy a little bit

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early on. 
Lyndon Johnson, of course, 

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escalated things in Vietnam 
under the hopes of building a 

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Tennessee Valley Authority in 
Vietnam and simply just helping 

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those people. 
What's wrong with helping Matt? 

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That they're always trying to 
help us under the guise of 

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violently dominating us. 
It turns out that the people who

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so commonly justify ruling 
people in this geographical area

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called America, once you give 
them a one or two basic 

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arguments that hey, you could 
also violently dominate people 

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in this geographical area, 
They're like, well, why would I 

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stop expanding my reach? 
Why would I only help some 

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people and not all people? 
Of course, this help comes under

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the guise of imperialism where 
some people coercively impose 

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their will on others. 
They're very skeptical of the 

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voluntary market where you can't
get a penny out of someone's 

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pocket unless they voluntarily 
give it to you. 

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They meet that with a high 
degree of skepticism. 

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But when it comes to governments
who basically claim the right to

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tax your property at will, take 
40% of your income, tax every 

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single economic exchange you're 
involved in in the marketplace, 

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well, that they don't have much 
skepticism towards at all. 

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So the roots of progressivism 
are pro war.