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Published on May 19, 2015 by Stefan Molyneux
George Washington was unanimously elected as the first president of the United States of America after winning the American Revolutionary War as the Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army.
Washington was first called “Father of his Country” three years after the beginning of the Revolutionary War – a status he earned not only for his military accomplishments, but also because of the numerous virtues he was perceived to possess as a human being.
But within Washington’s impeccable character, one quality stood out the most – a unique immunity to the corrupting effects of power, which stemmed from his selfless nature. “I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power,” stated Robert Frost, “America’s great poet-philosopher.”
After overthrowing the tyranny of the British Empire, Americans were unwilling to trust anyone with the power of a central government, yet in George Washington they saw a man who had transcended human fallibility. “Had he lived in the days of idolatry,” the Pennsylvania Journal noted in 1777, Washington would have been “worshipped as a god.”
How could such a man ever abuse his power, let alone become a tyrant? Furthermore, if men like Washington exist and can be elected into power, perhaps the United States government would never follow in the footsteps of the hated British Empire.
Does the mortal George Washington live up to his immortal legend? What is the Truth About George Washington?
Sources: http://www.fdrurl.com/george-washington
MP3: http://www.fdrpodcasts.com/#/2977/the…
Good old George sent a barrel of his whiskey to every poling place.
Anyone who voted for George got a mug of whiskey. This country’s government was corrupt from the start.
That would buy my vote today. As long as it doesn’t matter who you vote for anyway, you may as well get a good buzz out of the deal.
Two hours and forty minutes? I can squeeze three biographies into that time.
Good ol’ Georgie must have been a wild dude if it takes that long to tell us the truth about him.
His wife used to keep a naked slave in the house.
I’ll have to watch it tomorrow.
I’ll check back then to see if you recommend watching, thanks. 😉
After about twenty minutes I said “screw this. I’m not staring into this homo’s chrome-dome for another two hours because he likes the sound of his own voice”.
The movie is nothing but him talking, with the text on the screen next to his bald head, and I was hoping for a picture show.
As I suspected, from the beginning it looked like it was going to be at least an hour longer than it had to be, because it began with details of his father’s love life, and things of that nature, which have absolutely no bearing on anything that’s happened since. (irrelevant details)
Historians are historians because they like to gather information and catalog events. Some see how much detail they can record, and some are more concerned with limiting detail, and concentrating on an event’s effect on nations, large groups of people, or other events.
This seems like a collection of every last detail, but that’s what some people like, because it gives them more ammo for drawing their own conclusions, rather than reading the historian’s opinions, and being denied some of the available facts.
It’s definitely worth listening to, as it was very informative, but you’re probably better off skipping the movie version and listening to it while you’re doing something else.
In a very short nut shell:
Ole George was better at politics than warfare and more interested in acquiring his land, and the value there of than the people.
More apt to pushing his failures on others.
(I recommend listening to it with and open mind…Bias is always one of them things)
It’s amazing how history is basically…………the same.
Keep in mind that I had the video playing in the background while doing other things.
F**k George Washington. Freemason following his masters orders. One of those orders: to go squash the whiskey rebellion (I live near Bower Hill) and show these surfs that they WILL pay taxes no matter what. Those moonshiners learned the hard way that Liberty in America is non-existent.