DCUM Vote: Greatest American of All Time

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Lincoln at great personal cost.

Huang, Thiel, Brin, Elon….people living the American dream and opportunity while creating transformative tech also great to see.

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Anonymous wrote:Lincoln gets way too much credit. He happened to be the President at a time when inevitable change was happening. He arguably caused the war itself, or made it more costly. The emancipation proclamation was a military tactic. Slavery was going to end regardless.

Harriet Tubman is the better answer here.

There's always someone who wants to make this argument but it's hard to justify. If you spend enough time reading Lincoln's speeches, the run up to the Civil War, the aftermath, it's hard to see another person at the time who could have done what Lincoln did. The war was horrendous but it was not started by Lincoln, it was started by Lincoln's staunch no more spread of slavery position that caused the South to abandon all pretenses at principals along with irrational paranoia. The argument that slavery was going to die out anyway is laughable to anyone aware of the mood and beliefs of 1860, which followed several decades of widespread spread of slavery and the slave based cotton economy. Slavery in 1860 would have seemed more permanent than in 1810. The moral values espoused by Lincoln were at the heart of what America was supposed to mean, more than just a political state. His argument won, and the US we have today is because of it.

Lincoln also showed a remarkable growth during the war years in his attitude towards not just slavery but racial issues. His deep conviction in the core promise of the Declaration of Independence that all men are created equally, no exceptions, no carve outs, is what triumphed, and that is why he remains the greatest American.

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You mean Jeff? As in, one of the nominees on page 1 of this thread?

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Not FDR. FDR signed the executive order that allowed for the forced relocation and internment of over 100,000 Japanese-Americans, most of whom were US Citizens.

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Male: Abraham Lincoln
Female: Clara Barton

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Jerry Falwell.

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Anonymous wrote:Who would DCUM vote as the Greatest American of All Time ? Who’s your vote going to?

I’m undecided. I lean toward Franklin D. Roosevelt but would love to hear responses.

Sidebar - I never realized Thomas Edison was born in 1847 and died in 1931.

Ben Franklin
John Adams
Thomas Jefferson
Abe Lincoln
FDR
Truman

From my list above then my vote goes to Lincoln. Keeping the Union together was the most important event in American History since declaring Independence

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John Adams

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Anonymous wrote:I’m shocked at all the posters mentioning Mr. Rogers. He’s a tv character. You can’t remotely compare him to FDR, Harriet Tubman, and Lincoln. He also gave me the creeps. I wouldn’t be surprised if his name comes up in the Epstein files.

Maybe THAT is what they are hiding!?

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The.guy who's sometimes credited with saving around a billion lives is a guy named Norman Borlaugh. He was an American agricultural scientist who focused in breeding disease resistant higher yield wheat, then focused in bringing those strains to India and Pakistan. He won the Nobel Peace prize. He's credited with ending famines and preventing mass starvation.

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Benjamin Lay

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Anonymous wrote:The.guy who's sometimes credited with saving around a billion lives is a guy named Norman Borlaugh. He was an American agricultural scientist who focused in breeding disease resistant higher yield wheat, then focused in bringing those strains to India and Pakistan. He won the Nobel Peace prize. He's credited with ending famines and preventing mass starvation.

Fritz Haber ended famine.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m shocked at all the posters mentioning Mr. Rogers. He’s a tv character. You can’t remotely compare him to FDR, Harriet Tubman, and Lincoln. He also gave me the creeps. I wouldn’t be surprised if his name comes up in the Epstein files.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DGrEKHPSO91/

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Ray Kroc or Sydney Sweeney