{"id":713,"date":"2020-02-19T13:07:14","date_gmt":"2020-02-19T18:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carrollcountyrepublicans.org\/carroll\/?p=713"},"modified":"2020-02-19T13:07:39","modified_gmt":"2020-02-19T18:07:39","slug":"the-10-most-destructive-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carrollcountyrepublicans.org\/carroll\/2020\/02\/19\/the-10-most-destructive-americans\/","title":{"rendered":"The 10 Most Destructive Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/articles\/2018\/07\/the_10_most_destructive_americans_of_my_8_decades.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The 10 Most Destructive Americans of My 8 Decades<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>by Frank Hawkins, July 29, 2018<\/em><\/p>\n<p>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\u2019t 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\u2019s my list of the 10 most destructive Americans of the last 80 years.<\/p>\n<p>10) Mark Felt \u2013 Deputy director of the FBI, aka \u201cDeep Throat\u201d during the Watergate scandal. This was the first public instance of a senior FBI officially directly interfering in America\u2019s political affairs. Forerunner of James Comey, Peter Strzok, Lisa Page and Andrew McCabe.<\/p>\n<p>9) Bill Ayers\u2013 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\u2019s book, \u201cDreams of My Father.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>8) Teddy Kennedy \u2013 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. Like Kerry, sought Russia&#8217;s aid in running against R.R..<\/p>\n<p>7) Walter Cronkite \u2013 Cronkite was a much beloved network anchor to some who began the politicalization &#038; &#8220;tainting&#8221; of America\u2019s 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 he was too busy sailing &#038; hanging with the Kennedys &#038; it was too late.  The damage was done.<\/p>\n<p>6) Bill and Hillary Clinton (:-(\u2014 It\u2019s difficult to separate Team Clinton. Bill\u2019s 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\u2019s 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\u2019s 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\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p>5) Valerie Jarrett &#8211; 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\u2019s ear for his entire political career pushing a strong anti-American, Islamist, anti-Israeli, socialist\/communist, cling-to-power agenda.<\/p>\n<p>4) Jimmy Carter  &#8211; 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.<\/p>\n<p>3) Lyndon Johnson \u2013 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.<\/p>\n<p>2) Barack Hussein Obama &#8211; 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\u2019s 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\u2019s open support for the Iranian mullahs and his apologetic \u201clead from behind\u201d foreign policy seriously weakened America abroad. His blatant attempt to interfere in Israel\u2019s election trying to unseat Netanyahu is one of the most shameful things ever done by an American president.<\/p>\n<p>1)      John Kerry \u2013 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\u2019s secretary of state, he fell into bed with the Iranian (\u201cDeath to America\u201d) 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.<br \/>\n&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><em><br \/>\nFrank 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.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 10 Most Destructive Americans of My 8 Decades by Frank Hawkins, July 29, 2018 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. 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