I respectfully note, in terms of the comments section, that THG does history and leaves decisions about current events up to the viewer. But, as always, please be civil and respectful.

@Markver1

2 жыл бұрын

“The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.” -Ecclesiastes 1:9 KJV, King Solomon

@northdakotaham1752

2 жыл бұрын

Dishonesty, collusion and distrust are poor medicine for a nation that needs healing.

@clintward3532

2 жыл бұрын

I believe 2020 has surpassed this election as the most corrupt. Just my opinion though.

@sherylcascadden4988

2 жыл бұрын

Unfortunately, some history topics will cause people to snipe at each other. When I start going in that direction I try to step back and remember "just because you're offended doesn't mean you're right.". If I have offended, I apologize.

@WALTERBROADDUS

2 жыл бұрын

I think this is a case where the phrase," those who forget history are doomed to repeat it." Seems to apply.🙄

"Those who do not study history are doomed to repeat it. Yet those who do study history are doomed to stand by helplessly while everyone else repeats it"

@DougFLTRX

2 жыл бұрын

🤣 So very true

@ZER0ZER0SE7EN

2 жыл бұрын

"You can ignore History, but History won't ignore you."

@archingelus

2 жыл бұрын

Thats democracy bro

@karenryder6317

2 жыл бұрын

Politics has ever been and ever will be tribal. G. Washington was wise in not wanting political parties in the newborn republic. Too bad more people didn't listen to him.

@john_smith_john

2 жыл бұрын

@@karenryder6317 Naive attitude. They were inevitable with the system and survived every attempt to avoid them.

Too bad our modern day journalists don't learn this kind of history. They always seem to think any controversy regarding elections is "unprecedented".

@skeetrix5577

2 жыл бұрын

The media in this country is largely fraudulent

@rachelk4805

2 жыл бұрын

@@skeetrix5577 In what sense? A lot of the people who are considered "talking heads" by journalism grads are still well qualified to at least report the news, and usually the underlying investigative work is done by journalism graduates who have both a special mention in the Constitution and professional code of ethics. They are still human, but they often report when they have made errors. With the exception of those who argue in court that their shows are for entertainment purposes only, despite having the word "news" plastered over it (or those who just decided to start an opinion podcast on the internet), most are exactly what they claim to be. So, in what way is news "largely" fraudulent, or do you mean that you dislike what they report?

@GUNNER67akaKelt

2 жыл бұрын

@@rachelk4805 What they mean is the news is often patently false. A combination of blatantly biased, just plain dishonest, and lazily incompetent reporting, has left a great many people with absolutely no trust in the media. The only people who believe the media any more are those who DO like what they report. Of course, if you like what you hear, why would you bother the check the facts. I've caught the media in so many blatant lies I can't take anything they say seriously anymore. Well, maybe the weather.

@neilkurzman4907

2 жыл бұрын

@@GUNNER67akaKelt A lot of people don’t care what the truth is. They find someone who tells them what they want to hear and then calls that the news. Half of the 24 hour news stations have commentary not news. Often blatant opinion having nothing to do with fact.

@37center

2 жыл бұрын

@@rachelk4805 what we mean is YOU BROADCAST FAKE NEWS! izakly as stated mo ron. Get This: The People Don't Trust You anymore, however much they ever did. And y'all did it to yourselves, eat it.

Saw a cartoon that reminded me of you: "Those who don't study history are doomed to repeat it. Those who do study history are doomed to watch helplessly as those who don't ...repeat it."

@HM2SGT

2 жыл бұрын

"For it is the Doom of men that they forget!" Merlin

@ethanbailey7426

2 жыл бұрын

People will learn about all the corrupt and unethical things the government has done in the past and say "Wow, glad that doesn't happen anymore!"

@septembersurprise5178

2 жыл бұрын

And we (those who don't) are working hard to supply future content for The History Guy, cheers!

@WHix-om4yo

2 жыл бұрын

LOL! Thanks for your refreshing cynicism. In light of recent events, this episode makes me sort of...uneasy. Cheers!

@TranscendianIntendor

10 ай бұрын

What we think of as warnings they think of as instructions.

Whoever thought up the old saying about "Cheaters never win" must not have been a politician.

@JeffDeWitt

2 жыл бұрын

Or he might have been, and he said that as misdirection. After all, if "cheaters never win" and he won that's "proof" he didn't cheat, right?

@dsnodgrass4843

2 жыл бұрын

Nor a capitalist.

@garethfairclough8715

2 жыл бұрын

Or a fighter pilot.

@kfrerix9777

10 ай бұрын

The point is that to cheat and win is to lose, morally.

@bokesnmokes

10 ай бұрын

It’s “cheaters never prosper”.

People who say “that’s never before happened in history” just need to watch more History Guy. Thanks again!

This illustrates the old adage "The more things change the more they stay the same". It is unfortunate that we ignore our history an keep repeating so many of the most distasteful aspects of human nature and politics.

@mlconley

2 жыл бұрын

Those who choose to erase history will find themselves repeating it.

@hlmoore8042

2 жыл бұрын

I just said the same.

@d.e.b.b5788

2 жыл бұрын

Gee, it's almost as if the politicians in charge, intentionally want to keep the electorate as ignorant as possible.

@dukecraig2402

2 жыл бұрын

1876, Ballot box stuffing. 2020, Universal mail in voting.

If our schools actually taught history maybe we wouldn't be repeating it so often.

@Sabrasmkk

2 жыл бұрын

@@GeorgeWashingtonLaserMusket So, you want to use the actions of a long dead person to color the reputation of their currently living descendants? How about we start with your family? How about every time one of your ancestors broke a law that you are punished for it? And what if one of your ancestors once murdered someone? Shall we toss you in prison for a crime you never committed or possibly even knew about it? Yes, slavery and racism are abhorrent. But why in the world would you punish someone now for something that they and their living family members had no part in? That whole idea is ridiculous, stupid, and very woke. It's about as stupid as the idea of reparations for those whose ancestors were slaves. Those who have been slaves are the only ones owed reparations and only those who own/owned slaves should be punished. You do not punish the son for the sins of the father. Ted Bundy's family was not executed alongside him because they had nothing to do with his murders. The same for Adolf Hitler's family, the BTK killer's family, or even the family of the Son of Sam. As for what you said about killing off people in the south, that kind of attitude is no different then what Joseph Mengle and his "associates" did.

@firefalcon100

2 жыл бұрын

@@GeorgeWashingtonLaserMusket that would be absolutely no good. You replace slave owners with angry grieving people who had relatives die because of your purge. It would have further ingrained the hatred for former slaves.

@jliller

2 жыл бұрын

@@GeorgeWashingtonLaserMusket "The thing is anyone that gets offended by that statement is saying they think slave owners should be alive" 1. Most people are rather picky about who they are willing to kill. Nowadays a lot of people are adverse to killing ANYONE, even serial killers and child molesters who are convicted with overwhelming evidence. 2. How are you defining "slave owners"? There were 393,975 slave owners on the 1860 census. But that doesn't include people who rented slaves, traded slaves, were overseers of slaves, spouses and other family members of slave owners who didn't own slaves in the strict legal sense but did own them in a practical sense, etc. 3. "Kill every racist" is even more problematic. The vast majority of Americans who opposed slavery in the 1860s were still racist, including many who fought in the Union Army and Southern Unionists who opposed the Confederacy. 4. Regardless of who you can make a compelling argument deserved to be executed, carrying out such executions wasn't remotely practical.

@draneym2003

2 жыл бұрын

Hey come on, they do teach history in red states. They just teach the parts that make them look good and definitely not storming the Capitol types.

@phaedrussmith1949

2 жыл бұрын

I got so distracted reading this insane comment thread I had to restart the video.

"I won this state by 103% of the vote!" Oh yeah, sounds like a legit election.

@HeyIFoundACamera

2 жыл бұрын

Mayor Daly somehow got away with it...twice!

@moss8448

2 жыл бұрын

what was the line in the movie Gangs of New York? it's not how many votes are cast but who's counting them....or something to that effect.

@dukecraig2402

2 жыл бұрын

@@moss8448 Miller's Crossing (1990 Movie) Leo; "Hey Tom, you know the Mayor don't you?" Tom; "I should, I voted for him 6 times in the last election." The Mayor; "The worst thing is that's not the record."

@fathan16

2 жыл бұрын

But that's such a small amount of error that it wouldn't change the results to fix the problem, however big that problem may be. Lol

@rachaelsdaddontdrink

2 жыл бұрын

"...2020???"

Great episode. 7:05 "...newspapers across the country were declaring winners, stoking controversy, selling papers...." I'm sure glad that doesn't happen today 🤣

@sherylcascadden4988

2 жыл бұрын

Snicker.

@stephenphillip5656

2 жыл бұрын

🤨....man, so do I. It *couldn't* happen nowadays, could it? 🙄

@justme_gb

2 жыл бұрын

LOL! No one is really selling papers anymore - so there's that.

@ZER0ZER0SE7EN

2 жыл бұрын

DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN

@procinctu1

2 жыл бұрын

@@stephenphillip5656 that would be crazy. People would NEVER exploit a “once in a generation” event to alter an election…

It just goes to show that politics is still a dirty business and a confused mess.

@gymshoe8862

10 ай бұрын

Political corruption seems to come in waves--we happen to be riding the crest of a wave right now.

Great video. It's sad how some people today believe that "politics only became dirty and corrupt in recent years"... but human nature has never changed.

@kfrerix9777

10 ай бұрын

Nope. We ARE in an unusual situation. Our last president was a useful idiot for a major adversary. Also, 30 criminal charges. It is NOT "sad" to notice.

@stevenlitvintchouk3131

10 ай бұрын

There were plenty of other examples of 19th century corruption: Teapot Dome scandal, Credit Mobilier scandal, etc.

@wandabanks6756

9 ай бұрын

It was just more obvious now

I remember studying this way back in high school. That's why the 2000 and 2020 elections were no shock for me.

@erinmcdonald7781

2 жыл бұрын

Good on your history teachers. We didn't get much of this type of detail in highschool.

@bryonwatkins1432

Жыл бұрын

Your joking about 2020, right? The 2000, that was easily proven! The 2020, election, Trump lost because he underestimated the NEW voting block that are predominantly liberals!!!! All one has to do is study them!!!! The continuous downfall of the GOP, now after 2020, the abortion!!!! The GOP should have left abortion alone because it opened Pandora’s Box. People, you all need to turn off that stupid MSNBC, Fox News, and CNN!!!! Open up books, study analytics, trends, and demographics (EXTREMELY important)!!!! BEFORE the 2020 election, i made a Facebook livestream telling people Trump would lose, WHY, states he would lose, and the Electoral College!!!! Can’t damn close!!!! Trump’s OTHER downfall was his idiocy administration!!!! They were just dumb!!!! Had no knowledge of history which is VERY important as well!!!! Trump yelling massive voter fraud against Obama, H. Clinton, Ted Cruz, and Brian Kemp, NOOOOO evidence whatsoever!!!! Funny that more and more voter fraud from conservatives are being uncovered!!!! The wide investigations by conservatives, STILL haven’t found massive voter fraud!!!! OOOOOOH, see the link from conservatives themselves!!!! i read it!!!! The conservatives better direct their attention to the younger voters and how to make them happy!!!! This massive voter fraud and abortion crap, just pissing them off more!!!! See the recent elections lately? More indicators!!!! Hell, even 36% of conservative women support abortion!!!! You all better wake the FCUK up and leave you emotions out of this!!!! Then there are the PLETHORA of indictments within the Trump administration 🤦🏾‍♂️!!!! That ALONE is insane!!!! lostnotstolen.org//wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Lost-Not-Stolen-The-Conservative-Case-that-Trump-Lost-and-Biden-Won-the-2020-Presidential-Election-July-2022.pdf

@frankbandera6591

9 ай бұрын

2016 shouldn't have been shock either *Russia says USAID ousted for meddling in elections* ~LA Times, 9/20/12

I did teach my class about that election at Arnold Middle school in Arnold PA, many years, ago while working for that district as a substitute teacher.

You really can always depend on history repeating itself.

@andrewyoung2796

2 жыл бұрын

Maybe rhyming too

@Colonel_Overkill

2 жыл бұрын

Those who dont learn from history are doomed to repeat it their senior year... But yea, thats not a familiar story to current times in the slightest...

@r3dp9

2 жыл бұрын

For better or worse, the cycle of history is a source of hope.

@Colonel_Overkill

2 жыл бұрын

@@r3dp9 yes, it is. It just saddens me the amount of blood required to buy that hope is measured in such large quantities.

@toniadugger3954

2 жыл бұрын

Damn

Liars, cheaters and thieves are the bane of our existence.

@ScoutSniper3124

2 жыл бұрын

(aka. Career Politicians)

@filanfyretracker

2 жыл бұрын

And yet they are always in power, Politicians and Wall Street.

@thurin84

2 жыл бұрын

"The struggle’s no longer just who gets to vote. It’s about who gets to count the vote." joe biden

@moss8448

2 жыл бұрын

they just wanna be in charge of the tax money is all

@skeetrix5577

2 жыл бұрын

Man you ain't lyin lol

A cautionary tale from the past, as usual expertly reported, and so clearly relevant for the current situation in the USA. I cannot make up my mind whether learning that "all of this has happened before" should be a source of comfort or not.

@mlconley

2 жыл бұрын

Election of his fraudulency led to a Great populist revolt.

@karenryder6317

2 жыл бұрын

It isn't to me. It makes me fear we will never be able to overcome tribalism.

@ostrich67

2 жыл бұрын

@@mlconley you lost.

@jackrice2770

10 ай бұрын

Yeah, I'm feeling the same way, since we're talking about the period immediately after the Civil War...get that? A Civil War! Although this does at least tell us that nothing's changed throughout history, there are always people willing to do anything for power over others. The whole point of democracy is that the majority of the people who are going to affected by this power decide who will have it...and will take it away if it's abused! That last part is important.

@inconnu4961

9 ай бұрын

@@karenryder6317 The 'easiest' way to overcome tribalism is for EVERYONE to be good & honest. Once we can make that happen, tribalism has not a leg to stand on. Thats it; thats all we have to do! LOL

Kinda of funny that Florida was involved in the 1876 and 2000 election mess.

Funny thing is, Wheeler was actually nominated as Haye's running mate as a joke. The convention was looking for a running mate and no one wanted it. Someone on the floor shouted, 'Let's give it to Wheeler!' It was late and everyone wanted to just get it over with and the nomination went to the floor and was approved. Many of the delegates comment, 'Who is Wheeler?'

@jimbob3332

2 жыл бұрын

"Wheeler? I hardly know her!"

@slypear

2 жыл бұрын

@@jimbob3332 😂

@rascallyrabbit717

2 жыл бұрын

Vice president that's who

@melchiorscousin2504

9 ай бұрын

​@@jimbob3332 You liquor

The Hayes home in Freemont, Ohio is worth the visit if you're ever in north-central Ohio. The President and Mrs. Hayes are buried in a family plot out in the yard, flanked by the graves two of Hayes' Civil War horses.

@richardcleveland8549

2 жыл бұрын

I'm glad the horses were civil; so many are NOT!

@MikeBrown-ii3pt

2 жыл бұрын

Fremont is in Northwest Ohio, not North Central. It's approximately 30 miles East of Toledo on U.S. 20 and I've lived in the area my entire 53 years. Other than that, you're right, the Hayes House and Museum are definitely worth visiting. They're actually having sleigh rides on the grounds this weekend.

@josephstevens9888

2 жыл бұрын

I stand correct... I meant to say "Civil War horses"!

@josephstevens9888

2 жыл бұрын

@@richardcleveland8549 I stand correct... I meant to say "Civil War horses"!

@josephstevens9888

2 жыл бұрын

@@MikeBrown-ii3pt Sound great... thanks for the info Mike!

Wow. After watching the series 'The American West' I thought the History guy should really do an episode on the election of 1876 and here it is. I didn't even need to send an email. History guy is just taking suggestion telepathically.

What a timely report. History does repeat itself in large strokes.

@joanhoffman3702

2 жыл бұрын

Indeed it does.

@timothykeith1367

2 жыл бұрын

“History Doesn't Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes” - Mark Twain.

@athelwulfgalland

2 жыл бұрын

@@timothykeith1367 I'm a little late to the party but you said exactly what I was planning to say before I saw your response. ;)

@dukecraig2402

2 жыл бұрын

Strokes being the key word there.

@neilkurzman4907

2 жыл бұрын

Except back then both sides were actually trying to steal the election. No one was pretending.

We have seen some dark days in America, days we are not proud of. May God have mercy on us All.

You are Amazing!! History Guy... I now know that America has always been a fustercluck. I now have hope for the future that we will continue to survive even as we chew each other to pieces. God... Please bless America...

There is nothing new under the sun.

To add to the chaos of that day/ week, tomb robbers attempted to steal Abraham Lincoln's body.

Hey, I like THG's 'Lost in Space' robot on the shelf. That brings back a lot of memories from my childhood. Looks like I'm becoming an antique!

Vote early and vote often.

@richardcleveland8549

2 жыл бұрын

That was Lincoln's advice to the Whigs, when he was one.

Mr. History you are truly a gentleman and a scholar.

@buddyg1408

2 жыл бұрын

And there are few of us left

Your video mentioned Dan Sickles. I imagine this is the same Dan Sickles that was a Civil War General, famous (or infamous) for his actions at Gettysburg, and also famous for shooting his wife's lover, a government Attorney, in broad daylight outside the White House. Sickles was acquitted, the first time that a successful plea of "Temporary Insanity" was used.

@markprenger1979

2 жыл бұрын

I think it is also Sickles was a Medal of Honor receiptian for his actions at Gettysburg

@TheHistoryGuyChannel

2 жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/foqFzdKNqKrap6Q.html

@stevedietrich8936

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheHistoryGuyChannel LOL. I forgot where I learned it from. In my defense (not using temporary insanity though) you have produced around 600 videos.

@sherylcascadden4988

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheHistoryGuyChannel thanks. I thought you did that.....

@HM2SGT

2 жыл бұрын

Infamous & notorious

“A record of 81% of eligible voters voted” (twice, or even three times) 😁. Great history lesson. Just proves how powerful the vote is

@zenolachance1181

2 жыл бұрын

Yes... I find it fascinating how few people take voting seriously today. And how many people know nothing of the issues, other than what they hear on Broadcast News or social media

@sherylcascadden4988

2 жыл бұрын

As opposed to 2016 when 2/3 of the eligible voters stayed home in protest. I wonder if Trump or Hillary could have won if those people had chosen any third party.

@Eric_Hutton.1980

2 жыл бұрын

Remember. Vote early and vote often.

@HM2SGT

2 жыл бұрын

I'm reminded of the voting chapter of the film Gangs of New York

@sino8r499

2 жыл бұрын

@@HM2SGT yeah, that was great! Get a shave and vote again lol

I taught this over my 35 years of teaching History & Civics. I did cover the presidential elections of 1824, 1876, 1888, 2000, and 2016, It really hit home to my classes when I covered the Elections of Bush V. Gore, & Trump V. Clinton!

We DID NOT learn THIS in our Education in the State of California. Love this, yet...

I wondered why Bull Dozer was in as news paper before they could have been invented Interesting one for you to do History Guy According to "Bulldozers" written by Sam Sargent and Michael Alves: "Around 1880, the common usage of 'bull-dose' in the United States meant administering a large and efficient dose of any sort of medicine or punishment. If you 'bull-dosed' someone, you gave him a severe whipping or coerced or intimidated him in some other way, such as by holding a gun to his head. In 1886, with a slight variation in spelling, a 'bulldozer' had come to mean both a large-caliber pistol and the person who wielded it. By the late 1800s, 'bulldozing' came to mean using brawny force to push over, or through, any obstacle."

@evensgrey

2 жыл бұрын

Ah, so when the heavy tracked pushing machine was invented, it was a natural name to apply to it. I'd like to know the real origin of the phrase, "That's a doozy!" It sounds like it should refer to the Duesenberg luxury and racing cars, but it predates their creation by at least 4 years. (It's possible that these cars, many of which are still roadworthy today, popularized the phrase, but it couldn't have inspired it.)

@kenycharles8600

2 жыл бұрын

@@evensgrey you might be interested in watching an episode of Jay Leno's garage about a Duesenberg that he owns. He touches on the "doozy" phraseology a little before the video ends.

@filanfyretracker

2 жыл бұрын

And here I thought bulldozer was a name connected to a large strong bovine.

@JeffDeWitt

2 жыл бұрын

@@filanfyretracker That may have been where the term actually came from. After all if you get run into by one of those critters you are literally bulldozed!

Love from DeKalb Mississippi USA 🇺🇸 Home of the bloody 43rd Ms

@theCAPOSHOW

2 жыл бұрын

The camel regiment!

People think politics is so crazy today, but never stopped to realize it’s always been this crazy, we’re just paying more attention now. If anything, it’s calmed down a little.

In all the U.S. history courses I took, this fiasco was never mentioned. That includes the 8th grade U.S. Constitution course and exam I took in California to graduate from the 8th grade, the Civics course and exam in the Commonwealth of Virginia, the US Constitution course at Iowa State University, the U.S. Constitution course at Barstow Community College in California and the U.S. Constitution and Nevada History course at the University of Nevada at Reno. Interesting!

@garymickus6412

2 жыл бұрын

@Glen Martin, Maybe it was not mentioned due to corruption of this election. No point in “airing dirty linen in public.”

History worth remembering indeed

@artsmith1347

10 ай бұрын

But not history that should be re-lived and should be a cautionary tale. The election of 1876 didn't install a communist whose corruption permeated the entire executive branch.

Best retelling I've ever heard. Anything I'd ever read on this before makes it sound like the back-room deal was a "for sure" thing, and failed to mention that Hayes was in favor of South home rule before the controversy.

@moss8448

2 жыл бұрын

oh did we leave that part out? that's one thing the South didn't forget but they did bring it on themselves in a lot of ways..spoken as a Southerner

Living in Fremont Ohio most of my life, I am familiar with this story as that is the location of Hayes home Spiegel Grove. Thank you for bringing it to a wide audience in your matter of fact manner. Spiegel Grove is owned by the state of Ohio, open to the public with the house maintained c1880 appearance, museum, research library, and shady grounds with walking trails

'The more things change, the more they stay the same'

History is merely a magnifying glass we can use to see ourselves, a mirror in which our own reflection stares back.

I Love History!

The more things change, the more things stay the same.

@moss8448

2 жыл бұрын

they were talking about 'Progressives' at the turn of the century and it was for simple things like workers rights and silly stuff like that...the big boys always holler about too much government because for one thing they don't want anyone looking over their shoulders...how dare the common man have a say so..by god we own this place or something to that effect...yeah right until it's their ass on the line then it's a different story and they become 'super' patriots.

History often repeats...you, you know the thing.

@mlconley

2 жыл бұрын

Are you referring to "His Fraudulency the Second"?

@slowturtle6745

2 жыл бұрын

@@mlconley Thanks, I'm stealing that....just like the election.

@ThZuao

2 жыл бұрын

The 1876 election is the second most safe and secure election ever. There was no evidence of widespread fraud. Stop spreading misinformation. Or we'll have to charge you for sedition.

@timmmahhhh

2 жыл бұрын

@@slowturtle6745 🤣

@shawnr771

2 жыл бұрын

It might not repeat but it sure does rhyme.

I always think that things just couldn't get any worse, then I look at history.

"Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose..."

What goes around,comes around!!

Back in the Saddle Again

Boy, politics was great back in those days! That was the first of six straight close presidential elections during the Gilded Age. A book about this election is "The Stolen Election" by Lloyd Robinson, published in 1968.

I notice the USPS LLV in the background. The wife just came back from a DC work trip and picked me up a seemingly identical one from the Postal Museum. I'm hard to buy tourist things for, but she knows I'm a fan of those vehicles.

You can tour the David Davis Mansion in Bloomington IL When he was a circuit judge in his earlier days he rode the same circuit with a lawyer named Abe Lincoln and came to know him well

@theCAPOSHOW

2 жыл бұрын

I live in that area, I will have to check that out. Thanks. Lincoln has an old office in metamora Illinois worth checking out.

"The Long Depression" is almost entirely mythical. It is the result of later historians not understanding economics and so simply assuming that a lengthy period of steadily lowering prices must mean there was an economic disaster in progress. People at the time, however, didn't mention anything of the sort going on. What was really happening was the supply of money couldn't quite keep up with economic growth, which forced the value of money up and prices down.

@evensgrey

2 жыл бұрын

@working_country ___Hardly. We have records of currency being devalued and the resulting price inflation going back to at least Classical Rome. It also happened when Spain looted all that gold and silver from Aztec and Inca empires. It happened periodically in England when the Crown would debase the metal the coinage was minted from (and was largely undone when Elizabeth I systematically undebased all the coinage and issued high-purity coins again). Inflation wasn't all THAT bad in the US until the US went fully fiat currency in the 1970's. I was a kid, but even I noticed that there was an order of magnitude increase in prices between when I started primary school in 1975 and ended middle school in 1984.

@vulpsturm

2 жыл бұрын

Much like how "The Dark Ages" was and is still viewed as a period of time where nothing was going on.

@evensgrey

2 жыл бұрын

@@vulpsturm Which is an easy mistake to make if you only look at documents, which are relatively scarce in the period we call the Middle Ages. If you look at what actually happened, there was a LOT going on in Europe in the period. Huge migrations, massive wars, great (if incredibly dirty and smelly) cities were built, and by the later half of the period you've got the construction of massive cathedrals and castles that still exist all over Europe. (Fun fact: France spent a larger proportion of it's total productivity building cathedrals than the US did to go to the moon in the 1960's. The results were some of the largest indoor spaces created before the 20th century.)

@rogerscottcathey

2 жыл бұрын

Interesting.

@natowaveenjoyer9862

2 жыл бұрын

@working_country ___ "which is why inflation (devaluing currency) was invented." Please tell me you're joking. Inflation as a economic concept dates back to the Romans.

Rather than venture into difficult territory, I will simply point out that I think is the finest work on this - Gore Vidal's *_1876_* released during the bicentennial.

As one who loves learning new things all my life I was and am a great reader , in school i loved reading about our U.S. history when learning about this early election i could not help but think of this election nothing less than a second civil war .the one thing i found most interesting was that in those days it took so long to tally all the votes it could take months before a winner was declared and announced .

I know! I'll repeat that "history is doomed to repeat" homily - that will be refreshing!

Nice fresh jigsaw vignette at the beginning. Love your work to bits.

Thank you for providing this objective historical perspective. It is a true public service.

Wow~! This surely puts the present in a different light.

The white area of that puzzle must've been a pain to assemble.

Sounds familiar

How much things change, how much they stay the same

You want an eye-opening experience? Go to the black part of town, find people who are willing to talk, ask them about anything, like politics, economy, and you will be floored! The ideas you will hear will be stunning. They are smart enough but the things they say will make you consider the wisdom of their votes. Sad but true!

Interestingly, a visit by Hayes in San Antonio created the Battle of Flowers, which has become a parade in Fiesta over 100 years later.

@3lullabies

2 жыл бұрын

I thought it was a dedication to the Alamo defenders.

Although term limits will not bring election fraud to zero, it will, I think, decrease the party zealousness to a large degree. Many will not be interested in a political career when they learn that they can ONLY serve so long, and never receive a pension for doing almost nothing. The best government is the least government.

@northdakotaham1752

2 жыл бұрын

We already have term limits, it's called an election. But the election fraud has to be crushed for the term limits to work.

@singleproppilot

2 жыл бұрын

There should be no terms at all. Screw up bad enough and you’re fired immediately, just like every job the common folk hold. If there is no one to replace the person that left office, then that seat remains empty until a suitable replacement can be found. That and ranked choice voting would do wonders to eliminate the strangehold of the two dominant parties and hopefully reduce corruption. I can dream, can’t I?

@northdakotaham1752

2 жыл бұрын

@@singleproppilot I like your ideas! I think you are referring to a recall.... but they seem difficult to implement. A sore spot for me is our failed judiciary system.

@drew123saulpaul

2 жыл бұрын

Agreed

@ONLYGOODleftistisaDEADleftist

2 жыл бұрын

@@northdakotaham1752 I was referring to term limits in the number of terms an elected can serve, regardless of what the voters want. This precludes a professional body politic. In my opinion, all elected offices must be limited to two terms, so we don't have another FDR type cycle of socialism and entitlements. The electeds' salaries must be more in line with the difficulty in what they do, which is basically sitting on their asses in their office or en bicameral. No elected official from the POTUS on down should have a pension, ever. ALL the elected MUST have the same health benefits that they legislate for THE PEOPLE. Our forefathers NEVER intended for elected officials to become like a profession, where one milks the PEOPLE and gets rich. Elected office was meant to be a well- respected citizen's civic duty not a lifetime job. They wanted exactly the opposite of what we see today.

"If there is one fact we really can prove, from the history that we really do know, it is that despotism can be a development, often a late development and very often indeed the end of societies that have been highly democratic. A despotism may almost be defined as a tired democracy. As fatigue falls on a community, the citizens are less inclined for that eternal vigilance which has truly been called the price of liberty; and they prefer to arm only one single sentinel to watch the city while they sleep." G. K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man, Ch. III (1922)

@ricksanchez3176

2 жыл бұрын

And that was written before TV and these little sxrying screens grew our complacency further. Great quote. Ofcourse if a politician was to say to the people that maintaining a government of the people was the responsibility of the people, Nancy Pelosi would drag them up infront of the J6 commission on grounds of inciting the Great American Walkthrough of 21'.

@daviddamascus9657

9 ай бұрын

​@@ricksanchez3176 Ya, but fortunately J6 wasn't in 21 and happened in 20 instead which was an actual insurrection and not a walk through. But I get it. You aren't talking about that or even making a vague reference to it, so...

@ricksanchez3176

9 ай бұрын

@@daviddamascus9657 don't eat paint chips

@daviddamascus9657

9 ай бұрын

@@ricksanchez3176 Don't drink bleach. It won't help with COVID.

@ricksanchez3176

9 ай бұрын

@@daviddamascus9657 keep that mask on tight

I remember Walter Cronkite's "You are There" series did an episode on this election. Even back then they emphasized the Corruption and Cronyism of it!

@Redmenace96

2 жыл бұрын

We see the the U.S. as a bastion of enlightenment. During the first 100 years, the U.S. govt. was no better than the Congo or Cambodia, or any other tiny country with a strong man leader. Corruption and Cronyism were just called, "government".

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I wonder how many years it took before they called it ACTUAL fraud.

@bc2578

2 жыл бұрын

Long after it was too late, as usual. It's like the fake election was actually made in a lab.

@moss8448

2 жыл бұрын

missing chads

This is nice timing. I just finished Justice Rehnquist's book on this, which is very even-handed. His epilogue goes through almost every instance of Justices doing odd jobs like this: sitting on commissions, negotiating treaties, trying war criminals, etc.

Great episode. And we think we have it bad. I remember 20 years ago when a court election in alabama had to be redone because the number of votes recorded was 120% of the county population. It's gotten much better.

In times like these, it is always good to remember there have always been times like these.

I'm surprised that you didn't make the connection between the election of 1876 and the Electoral Count Act of 1887, which was passed to deal with the problems revealed by the 1876 election. That Act had a key role to play in the 2020 election.

The more things change the more they stay the same.

What’s actually more incredible is that this hasn’t been repeated every single election since.

Outstanding synopsis of an amazing election year.

It had me laughing to think that in this age a candidate for either party in a national election who was "Obnoxious to no-one" would probably get about a thousand votes if they were lucky.

@jliller

2 жыл бұрын

In politics as in game design, if you are liked by everybody but loved by nobody, you will fail.

@rogermetzger7335

2 жыл бұрын

Not many years ago, I asked one conservative political candidate - obviously trying to appeal to people who thought of themselves a Christians - which of his policies he thought were likely to be appreciated by moderates. His reply began with an oath and employed a lot of vulgarities and profanities but the upshot of it was to refer to moderates by a string of adjectives intended to imply that moderates aren't worth the ground that is darkened by our shadows. - An overall inspiring reply. NOT!

Hmmm, it's quite evidently that this did not begin 2020.

@dsnodgrass4843

2 жыл бұрын

Or 2016. Or 2000.

Man those old Political cartoons were brutal 😂

Excellent video and very instructive. The video recalling history and recent events are two reasons why the electoral collage must be eliminated and the popular vote decides who the winner should be.

@awesomeferret

Жыл бұрын

Please look into what the electoral college actually is, and why advocating for its removal is actually to be anti-democracy.

@WhydoIsuddenlyhaveahandle

10 ай бұрын

Direct democracy is a disaster, mob rule, and crushes the minority. Those living amd working in the country making all the food would never have a voice.

"History doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes." ~ Mark Twain

This sounds so familiar.

@northdakotaham1752

2 жыл бұрын

It's a really deja vu sort of thing.

@revade6698

2 жыл бұрын

Agreed. So little has changed.

That was a treat to watch. But also a little a little depressing. Politics haven't changed much have they?

@awesomeferret

Жыл бұрын

They have. They've changed for the better. 2020 was nothing like 1976, and I'm grateful for that.

Wow some things never change

Ouch

Good presentation. I learned a lot today and also was reminded of my high school history teacher who went on about Hayes back in 1968. It's good to refresh one's memory and gain new perspectives on current events. Thank you.

And they managed all that dirty, low-down political wrangling without Facebook or Twitter. Amazing!

"The more things change the more they stay the same."

The fact that it has happened before does not make me feel any better about the future of our country.

@natowaveenjoyer9862

2 жыл бұрын

ok doomer

@northdakotaham1752

2 жыл бұрын

Give it a year, things will change dramatically.

@karenryder6317

2 жыл бұрын

@@northdakotaham1752 I can't understand why you think that we will be any less polarized a year from now.

@northdakotaham1752

2 жыл бұрын

@@karenryder6317 I believe it will improve bc frankly, between Biden, Harris and the left wing Dems in Congress, they suck! Their poll numbers tell the whole story. For that reason I believe Republicans will win both houses this fall, begin a new, more rational congress in January 23 and one of their first tasks will be to address big tech censorship. We are living through an information war(24/7 propaganda).

@dsnodgrass4843

2 жыл бұрын

@@northdakotaham1752 Biden and the Dems ain't "left wing"; bc Trump supporters ain't the "center". If anything, they've run so far right that even Reagan wouldn't recognize them. There's a real "left" in America now, but you won't find it in the "Blue" party. And it's only getting bigger. See ya soon.

First, this is really well timed content. Second, this may be your best content that I have seen to date. People argue about statues and confederate leaders and they don't understand that it took a century for many of the resolutions to this conflict to settle. Now we've forgotten and we act like we are bringing up something new.

@justme_gb

2 жыл бұрын

There are monuments that were erected immediately following the Civil War (e.g. Manassas Battlefield) and those erected in the Jim Crow Era (e.g. R.E. Lee in Charlottesville). The latter was actually unanamously approved by an entirely Democrat city council. The history of each, individual monument is certainly forgotten today.

@MrIluvbutts

2 жыл бұрын

@@justme_gb before repubs switched to the south and pivoted to racism

@thetruth-hl7ct

2 жыл бұрын

@@MrIluvbutts Another media/Dem lie.

@northdakotaham1752

2 жыл бұрын

@@MrIluvbutts really? When did that happen?

@john_smith_john

2 жыл бұрын

@@northdakotaham1752 between the 30's-60's

This makes me think of the election scenes in the movie Gangs of New York.

@HM2SGT

2 жыл бұрын

Indeed

looks like it is deja vu all over again

Is this a history or current events channel?

@markprenger1979

2 жыл бұрын

Both

@2aEdu

2 жыл бұрын

2020- The Most Fortified Of All Time - The Former VP

@bethparker1500

10 ай бұрын

Ha ha, yeah, no this is history. Kinda sad still trying to disenfranchise the Blacks after 150 years.

@maureenfitzgerald1895

10 ай бұрын

Lol!!

@tek4

10 ай бұрын

Yes

Democracy is always messy. But, of all the ways possible to transfer power, it usually does so with the least bloodshed.

Had to watch this one over a few times . Thank you for the history , we need it.

Very interesting video! Thanks for another great episode

I don't know if it's happened enough or others would be interested enough in it, but it'd be great to see a video on headlines that never came true. The famous Dewey Defeats Truman paper comes instantly to mind.

@HM2SGT

2 жыл бұрын

Indeed! I had a similar thought, trying to remind people that everything they're so wrapped around the axle about is nothing new. 1948 definitely came to mind!

@filanfyretracker

2 жыл бұрын

makes me wonder at times how many headlines the papers have had ready in history, That thankfully did not come true or unfortunately came true. Like I would not be surprised if there was a rocket explodes headline ready for every Apollo and Shuttle mission(which sadly they got to use in 1984 for Challenger). In less serious things I know that things like the Superbowl tend to have two headlines already to go to the presses.

2,000 mules....

Best episode ever. Thank you!

Now, if we could only take the electoral college out of the equation...