"and be content to realize his activity only in connection to the activity of the many"
Yes thats' right. More
"I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something. "
And his team? "New forms of association must be created. Our disorganized competitive life must pass into an organic cooperative life"
HUH?
This is Woodrow Wilson. The progressive's first academic officeholder, a Princeton graduate, whose cabinet and staff meetings looked like an academic faculty and staff discussion, a man engaged on a bold fundamental reshaping of an America which wouldn't even go to war for a single selfish purpose (as he later bragged about WW1)
He ALSO spoke disparagingly of the constitution. A flawed beginning (whereas so long as he and others like him made the changes required by the living thing government and society is, these flaws, would be repaired by flawless fixes) he said as well. The social gospel then was that the state would be the right arm of god (JAMES DOBSON, can you hear me?)
What happens when we get these self righteous goons in there for fundamental change ...?
FROM THE WILSON CENTRE, and "Perilous Times" (a book I have often pushed here):
Wilson sought aggressive censorship legislation. He asked Congress to draft what became the Espionage Act of 1917, making it a crime for anyone to interfere with the war effort through acts such as denouncing the draft. Even this was not enough for Wilson, who pushed passage of the Sedition Act of 1918, which imposed heavy penalties on anyone convicted of criticizing the Constitution, the government, the military, or the flag. The approximately 2,000 people who were convicted under the Sedition Act included, for example, citizens such as Rose Pastor Stokes and Eugene Debs, each of whom was sentenced to10 years in prison for speeches criticizing the government's motives for going to war. "Woodrow Wilson set the tone," Prof. Stone declared, "of an utter intolerance for dissent and disagreement." The courts did no better, as the Supreme Court upheld the convictions of those convicted under the two laws.
Following the war, support for the First Amendment, which had been buried in the fervor of the war effort, began to reemerge. Although the Espionage Act remains on the books today, Congress repealed the 1917 Sedition Act in early 1920. In 1921, Woodrow Wilson offered clemency to most of those convicted under the Sedition and Espionage Acts. The Supreme Court eventually overturned all of its Sedition and Espionage Acts decisions.
Can't happen here?
Eternal VIGILANCE, the man said. It's no hyperbole