Is he the most overrated founding father?
He wasnt a visionary philosopher, he wasnt a shrewd politican. All he had was his military career, but he was a shitty general, plus he was an ambitious aristocrat and just wanted to further his own career above all else.
And he was a shitty president who had no fucking idea what he was doing and managed to spark a second rebellion AND a war with Americas new buddy the French. Although both of those were very small scale
He was a good leader and that is all we really needed.
Brah, all he wanted to do was be a farmer.
People kept dragging him off his plantation to do shit.
He refuse to take up power he didn't wanted for the sake of his country. How many leaders of the past can claim that?
Every US President besides maybe FDR and Nixon that allowed a peaceful transition of power?
He had the one thing that money can never buy, INTEGRITY.
Washington was the American Cincinnatus. Even to this day, he's the nation's moral compass.
Most grabbed power for the executive branch in some form or another. Jackson did it with vetoing for example
He was steady hand when America needed it the fact that he never tried to grab power or allow his subordinates to grab power really stabilized the early government
>plus he was an ambitious aristocrat and just wanted to further his own career above all else.
Except he wasn't, and stepped down after two terms. Or did you just decide to neglect that, you contrarian, edgy little faggot?
If he was all about building power, he would've become king. The country was more than willing to let him do that.
True enough, but they all stepped down when appropriate...I can't imagine that was the norm for most rulers throughout history.
But it was only the norm in the US because Washington made it the norm.
Fair enough. Still, I think it is impressive how nearly all of our Presidents allowed for a peaceful transition of power.
FDR clung to the presidency and I fully believe if not for Watergate destroying his political career Nixon would have acted as a "power behind the throne" for Ford. I also think that's what H.W. Bush was doing, considering the fact that almost the entire administration of the W office was essentially a clone of his.
Oh, and if Hillary wins? She was running the White House in the nineties for 8 years already.
Don't forget how he misinterpreted Freemasonry to inflict a shitty political system on an unsuspecting nation.
>I also think that's what H.W. Bush was doing, considering the fact that almost the entire administration of the W office was essentially a clone of his.
Except H.W. didn't want a renewed war with Iraq and frankly, none of Bush's appointees could match H.W.'s.
H.W. was just a lot smarter than his son.
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Same thing with Jefferson Davis, he didn't want to be President, the Provisional Confederate Congress elected him as a write-in candidate.
He also wasn't as gung-ho about the neoconservatives' agenda as his son.
Honestly, I don't really think H.W. was calling too many shots during his son's presidency. Though I'm sure had a lot to say about certain elements of the job, and who to listen to.
Tbf for FDR changing presidents or even having an election during wartime is pretty stupid
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Had FDR stepped down in 1940 we don't know if America would have gotten involved at all
Willkie would have loved to have gotten us into war.
Nigga was immune to bullets.
That's important in a young nation.
>that allowed a peaceful transition of power
Who set that precedent of stepping down after two terms that they felt obliged to follow?
>good seson 4 crops
>continantul congress, swerv
yeah cause I am sure that whoever was elected instead would totally want to just fucking stop sanctioning/embargoing a fascist state that was committing genocide and growing to be a rival that threatened nearly all of our Pacific holdings
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more like Pearl harbor was inevitable by the end of FDR's first 2 terms and war was inevitable as ties to the UK strengthened and ties to Germany/the Axis faltered
I couldn't imagine being on call 24/7 when my fucking strawberries are growing in.
Yes. Most people think he was 5 stars, objectively he was more like 3, 3.5 at best.