Nixon, Bush or Trump: Who Represents The Worst of The Military Industrial-Complex?

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America has produced more than its fair share of truly ghastly political players.

While it is true that Thomas Jefferson authored the declaration of independence, which encapsulated the finer aspects of enlightenment philosophy, this rebarbative also did have children with a 15 year old slave girl — Sally Hemmings.

Rutherford Hayes, prior to becoming president of the United States, represented fugitive slaves, but this wasn’t at the forefront of his thinking when he chose to remove the federal troops from Oklahoma, thereby putting an end to reconstruction.

Theodore Roosevelt and Thomas ‘Woodrow’ Wilson paid lip service to civil rights, while pursuing aggressive foreign wars with Spain and Germany.

But these individuals pale into comparison with their successors who’ve destroyed the system by cynically manipulating it.

And this is where America’s 37th president comes in.

Richard Milhous Nixon did not instigate the Vietnam war; that dubious honour belongs to John Fitzgerald Kennedy, who was looking for a way of redeeming himself after the Bay of Pigs debacle.