Free Liars by Glenn Beck

spent three decades in the academy contemplating the failings of the old American constitutional system, testing his critique of it, and preparing the rhetorical case for its transformation.” Even before finalizing his education, Wilson had already embraced “a new theory of the presidency and of the whole political system.”
    ORDAINED BY GOD
    Y ou might not always like a politician’s policies or ideology, but up close and personal, you sometimes discover that he or she is actually a very kind person.
    That is not the case with Woodrow Wilson.
    He was, of course, intensely ambitious and convinced that he was meant for great things. Beyond that, he often exhibited what he proudly called his Scotch-Irish fighting streak. This made him a tough, unbending, unforgiving enemy.
    His closest political ally was probably Texas power broker Colonel Edward Mandel House. House once explained that the best way to convince Wilson of something was to “[d]iscover a common hate, exploit it, get the president warmed up, andthen start your business.”
    Wilson eventually broke with House, just as he broke from almost every person who aided his rise from Princeton to the New Jersey State House to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. House was a strong personality, but most of the time, Wilson simply loved the sound of people saying yes to him, telling him just how wonderful he was. He had many followers but few close friends.
    â€œWilson,” progressive journalist William Allen White once explained, “in his gayest hours, in his times of greatest happiness, stood always aloof, distrusting men instinctively. It was this suspicion of men, founded upon ignorance of men, which led Wilson always to question the strong, to fraternize with the meek, and to break ruthlessly and irrevocably, without defense or explanation, any friendship whichthreatened his own prestige.”
    When Wilson captured the White House in 1912, his arrogance was already so great that he reprimanded one supporter with these incredible words: “I wish it to be clearly understoodthat I owe you nothing. Remember that God ordained that I should be the next president of the United States. Neither you nor any other mortalcould have prevented that.”
    Yes, Wilson would let nothing stand between him and power. The 1912 Democratic platform had demandeda one-term limit on the presidency, but Wilson violated his party’s pledge and ran again in 1916. Even crippled by a major stroke, he angled for a third term in 1920.
    Death was the only force with the power to fully silence his ambition.
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    Woodrow Wilson believed that “theState” was everything and that individual rights basically meant nothing. He even went so far as to claim that “the State of today may be regarded as in an important sense only an enlarged Family: ‘State’ is ‘Family’ writ large.”
    The State he had believed in for most of his youth was the Confederacy of the old South, run by a patrician elite. It didn’t matter that African-Americans had no part in the State except to generate revenue in the form of cotton exports; in Wilson’s eyes, they weren’t really citizens.
    Prior to Wilson and his progressive allies, this concept was not only laughable but also insulting and dangerous to the most important human institution: the family. But family, faith, and the individual—not to mention the Constitution itself—weren’t bedrock principles to him; they were mere hindrances to be overcome. In keeping with the progressive mind-set, he believed that men could not reach perfection on their own; only the forces of society—unleashed, administered, and monitored by the State—could do that for them.
    Wilson believed that America’s founding principles were outdated at best and distasteful at worst. He loathed “blind worship” of the Constitution and thought veneration of the Founders