I've been educating myself in political trends in American electoral politics by reading up on Wikipedia's articles on major elections and their primaries. Wikipedia is frequently an inadequate source due in no small part to their endemic bias, but they're decent for building a cursory education on topics that are not currently controversial. In the course of my reading, I've come to realize just how fucked America was after the 1940 Republican Presidential Convention because this man, Wendell Willkie, a strong candidate for America's first Cuckservative, was our party's nominee. He had next to no popular support, having carried no states in the primary and having the 5th most votes, only beating out one other candidate, but the GOP establishment pushed him through the convention anyway. And of course he was running against the crippled syphilis-ridden communist probable-crypto FDR who was going for a third term. In fact, the whole 1940 Presidential election has eerie parallels to how things might have turned out for us had we not won in 2016, regardless of what you think of what has transpired since.
To set the stage, I'll talk briefly about the state of the world in 1940. World War II had already started in Europe and Asia with the US being officially neutral, but already taking actions that can be considered acts of war to antagonize Japan and Germany at the behest of the second-term pro-interventionist (on the side of Britain) president Franklin Roosevelt. FDR had no desire to let go of the reigns of power before embroiling America in a war that he had worked so hard to engineer upon an unwilling public. Supporters of FDR at his party’s presidential convention had overwhelmingly thrown their support behind him, citing the ongoing war in Europe (never mind that it had no official US involvement) as the reason why they thought Roosevelt’s bid at an unprecedented third presidential term was necessary.
“So who the Hell is this Willkie guy?”, you might be asking yourselves. The simple version of it I’d try to get across is it’s as though you gave a guy with Trump’s background Hillary’s positions. Willkie was an industrialist from Wall Street that had never run for public office in his life prior to seeking the Republican presidential nomination. He used to be a Democrat, going so far as to vote for FDR in the 1932 Democratic primary, however his support for FDR soured when his electrical company’s monopoly was broken up under FDR’s administration. Like a typical Cuckservative, his response to this turn of events was to preach the holy word of the Free Market to defraud rubes who are too dumb to know that monopolies are the exact opposite.
Willkie performed terribly in the short (as was standard for the GOP at the time) series of primaries that only included the states of California, Oregon, South Dakota, Nebraska, Wisconsin, Illinois, Ohio, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and New Hampshire. Willkie carried zero states and came in 5th of 6 places, carrying approximately a meager 1/5th of the votes the fourth placed candidate had secured. All of the better performing candidates were isolationists who opposed in varying terms US entry into World War II. Willkie, in contrast, was a strict supporter of US intervention on the side of Britain.
Of course, the mechanism by which such an overwhelmingly unpopular candidate took the nomination was entirely the machinations of the GOPe in the kind of convention fuckery that is typical of those human rats. The Convention was held in Philadelphia and over the course of multiple rounds of voting, his supporters managed to drown out and fatigue their adversaries, who initially outnumbered them. Wikipedia’s claims that Germany’s military successes over France may have caused him to become slightly more popular among a public that was being bombarded with Jewish pro-war propaganda, but make no mistake, this was no true popular vote. Almost as a footnote to the convention itself, mention is made of two dynamite bombs that were found outside of the convention, a detail that conspicuously only became available to the public when a Jew York City police commissioner was describing the bombing it suffered at its World’s Fair. How a police commissioner in a totally different city was aware of details surrounding the bombing attempt in Philadelphia and why the attempt was unsuccessful are not explained in any further detail in the article. Nor is what effect if any it could have had, but we’re more astute that to expect no effect. In fact, in all likelihood, the bomb threat was exactly why the convention was thrown to a candidate with such overwhelming unpopularity in both his positions and his background.
Nolan Wood
Once the nomination for the Republican candidate was over, history was written. I’ve been trying not to greentext for this series of posts, but these excerpts from Willkie’s Wikipedia article speaks for itself better than I ever could.
Mason Garcia
Treason indeed, as is typical of neokike golems, of which he is doubtlessly the progenitor, he was beloved by his enemies to do their bidding. He set the stage for moving politics so that it mainstreams their unpopular poisonous positions that would never be enacted were it up to an actual popular referendum. He served his purpose as a born loser in an election where we could have easily had a winner. And the entire world suffered as a result of Willkie’s treason to the Republicans, who voted overwhelmingly for a better candidate, treason to the American public, who deserved a better choice, and treason to the world, who deserved to be composed of nation-states instead of being caught between two Jewish-captured superpowers caught in a dick-waving contest over who could establish a Jewish world order first.
I'm not against any discussion of current events, I'm merely trying to educate Zig Forums on a fairly obscure historical figure, who is more pertinent to the state of the world today than most US Presidents in the last 50 years and what lessons we can learn from what happened then.
Charles Murphy
>Still (((got))) the nomination. What a (((coincidence))) of history.
