History of Progressivism

• May 1776 – Illuminati founded by Adam Wieshaupt in Bavaria

• 1848 – Communist Manifesto – Karl Marx - Fredrich Engels – Germany

• Late 1800s – American Progressive Movement

• Early 1900s – British Fabian Socialist Society

• 1901 – 1909 – Teddy Roosevelt – First progressive president

• 1913 – Progressive watershed year – 16th and 17th Amend

• 1913 – 1921 – Woodrow Wilson – Second progressive president.

• 1919 – League of Nations - Birth of Internationalism

• 1921 – Edward Mandell House – forms CFR – One World Govt people

• 1920s – 1930s – Progressives embrace eugenics to improve gene pool

• Late 1930s – Progressives embrace Hitler , Mussolini, and Stalin as “men of action” unencumbered by the messiness of the democratic process.

• 1945 – United Nations formed – New World Order

• 1940s to 1990s – Discredited progressives appropriate the word “liberal”.

• 2008 – Barack Obama gives speech and acknowledges Madison, Wisconsin as the birthplace of American Progressivism

• 2008 – Hillary Clinton refers to herself as an early 20th century Progressive.

• 2011 – Feral Progressivism

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