The 10 Most Destructive Americans of My 8 Decades
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.
Frank Hawkins is a former US Army intelligence officer, Associated Press foreign correspondent, international businessman, senior newspaper company executive, founder and owner of several marketing companies and published novelist. He is currently retired in North Carolina . fhawk852@gmail.com
but many of us knew exactly what he
meant. While the black community
has much to celebrate, including its
rich culture, spirit of strength,
accomplishments, and progress
in some areas, many African-
Americans are suffering.
instead living in broken homes.
Poverty that should be shrinking
is instead rising. Streets that
should be peaceful are instead
rocked by violence. Schools that
should be nurturing excellence
are instead factories of failure.
And seniors who deserve security
instead fear what tomorrow may bring.
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always this
way. In the mid-1900s, for example,
poverty in the black community
dropped by nearly 50 percent, and
skilled tradesmen saw their income
more than double relative to whites.
rates among African-Americans are
nearly twice the national average,
and 12 million blacks—including
4 million of our children—live in poverty.
front as well. Today, fewer than half
of all black students in many large
U.S. cities graduate from high school.
Just as shocking, the math
achievement gap between black and
white students has not changed in
decades and has actually widened
in reading.
our families. As hard as it may be
to believe, the marriage rate among
blacks used to be higher than it was
among whites.
every 10 black kids were being raised
by both their mother and father. Today,
fewer than half of them are. In fact,
nearly 5 million black children today
live in homes without one or both of
their parents.
politicians choose to ignore these
facts, but, within the black community,
we don’t. Because we can’t.
what Trump was asking.
agreement on the need for change.
Republicans and Democrats alike
want to see our education system
fixed so all children can achieve their
full potential.
disparities eliminated so all babies
are born healthy and no senior dies
for lack of access to quality health
care. They want to see jobs created,
poverty defeated, and our economy
flourish. And they want to see our
streets safe, our families strong,
and our future bright.
Democrats have some very different
ideas about how to make those
things happen.
waged his “War on Poverty” over half
a century ago, the Democrats’
approach has been to spend trillions
of dollars on nearly 100 government
programs. Fifty years later, we’re
now worse off in many respects than
we were before the War on Poverty
began.
community to try a different approach.
disparage Trump’s message and
intent right out of the gate because
they’ve been told they can only trust
Democrats. Others will accuse
Trump and his agenda of being “racist”
or “bigoted” just because they know
those words have an incendiary effect.
disagrees that America’s course
must be changed. Because, nasty
politics and fiery rhetoric aside,
even Trump’s most panicked critics
know deep down what most Americans
have been consistently telling
pollsters: Our nation has been
on the wrong track.
means doing the same thing over
and over again, each time expecting
different results. Well, we’ve tried
one government program after
another and we’ve thrown piles
of money and mountains of regulations
at the problems plaguing our
community. But the problems just
keep getting worse.
is coming to Washington, D.C.
People with deep compassion,
vast experience, and a willingness
to put their lives on hold while they
help America get back on track.
I’ve met many of these people, and
each time I do, I feel a renewed
sense of optimism about our
country’s future.
to eliminate poverty, create jobs,
fix broken schools, improve our
health, and heal our families. Their
focus isn’t solely on the black
community, but every policy that
is good for all Americans has the
potential to be especially positive
for African-Americans because of
how far we’ve fallen.
players and bold ideas. Their
sleeves are rolled up and their
purpose is clear.
and attack, as some are already
doing even before Trump takes
the oath of office. We can hurl ugly
insults and take to the streets, as
many have been doing. Or we can
keep our hearts and minds open,
lend a hand whenever needed, give
good people time to do the good we
need done, and join hands and
forces to realize something Dr. Martin
Luther King said long ago: “We have
an opportunity to make America
a better nation,” he told us, “to
make America what it ought to be.”
opportunity—right now. And
understanding both what we have
to lose as well as all that we have
to gain is a great place to start.