It always depresses the hell outta me when I see a conservative "influencer" glazing these guys. There was one idiot who I had a pretty length argument with about this and, despite Pace's testimony, refused to listen or would just contradict himself. I think people underestimate how much of a sacred cow this event is.
When first I heard in high school that Patton led the charge against the Bonus Army, I had a sense that perhaps the story was not as it seemed. This research cements it. It also calls to mind Patton realizing the Soviets were evil and could take Europe. He said something along the lines of giving him three weeks and he could neutralize the threat. Imagine if he hadn’t died in a mysterious truck accident and been given the chance to prevent the entire Cold War!
I think the reason why it's so hard for most Americans to see what the so-called "peaceful protesters" for what they are is because the schools, the culture, the society itself beats us over the head with the lie of power to the people/the power of the mob. Don't put your faith in the mob. Put your faith in Christ! Great article.
This is the reason why I advocate that we treat leftists the way that our culture treats Nazis now. Accept no excuses, no explanations. Ruin friendships over it. Leftism is a cancer that must be rooted out with no half measures.
A great question to ask that is not presented in this article is the ethnic makeup of the leadership of the Bonus Army. It would not surprise me to find out that like most of the Bolsheviks, many of these men were jewish.
As far as I could tell most of the leaders (Waters, Pace, Butler, etc.) were Old Stock American. Jewish people were overrepresented in Communist Party USA, but that was always regarded as kind of a quack project. Jews weren't really major players in American leftism, at least as a percentage of formal leadership, until later. Huge figures like Clarence Darrow were Quakers (continuing progressive strain you saw in the Abolitionist/women's suffrage movement). The people who funded the Sacco and Vanzetti defense were delusional old WASP ladies in Massachusetts. Violent leftist radical movements during this time were typically either hyper-national specific (ex. the Italian Anarchists) or basically just foreign ethnic mafias (ex. McNamara brothers, union goons who blew up the LA Times Building). Obviously the Jewish role in this period, and especially the New Deal era that followed, is significant but fixating on them to the exclusion of other groups can create a very distorted picture.
There is another way to interpret the same facts: The protesters had a legitimate request. The ruling class ignored them. The communists took advantage of this. The main purpose of 'communism' among 'conservatives' is to remove the blame from the ruling class. The communists succeeded in gaining ground in America because the ruling class acted with such contempt for ordinary people. FDR came along, and at least *pretended* to care and *tried* to implement popular policies. As a result, the Democrats have a lock on whole swaths of the American population. 'Conservatives' have lost because they always sided with the ruling class which they always expected to be the ownership class. But now, the ruling class is the managerial class and they don't support 'conservatism'. So, 'conservatism' has been turned out into the wilderness to complain about how bad things are or to shift blame from their bad political decisions to 'communists'. So much for 'personal responsibility', I guess.
I don't think demanding money 15 years before it was promised is a legitimate request. That's not a good precedent to set. If Congress buckled to those threats the first time then the communist would just organize those hostage situations every single month. America has a government, not mob rule.
Also seems pretty likely that communist organizers are the ones who came up with the idea for this "request" in the first place. These mostly illiterate soldiers probably wouldn't have even thought to demand their bonus 15 years early without being encouraged...
And, what if they did? Does that mean the request wasn't legitimate? Who was Congress to not help these people out? MacArthur and Patton were thugs working for the ruling class. It's that simple. Congress was a bunch of whores committed to the interests of a very narrow economic group in the US. But you still want to believe Congress was 'doing the right thing' because 'communists' were involved. 'Communists' got involved because Congress and the ruling class wouldn't do their jobs and rule in the interests of ordinary people.
Of course you don't. You side with the bosses. Congress 'buckled' then - as now - to the rich. Is that a problem for you, too? If so, how did you choose to side with a 'Congress' full of rich people rather than 'the mob'?
And why believe Pace anyway? He's a self-admitted communist. You might as well believe a self-admitted whore that she's going to be true to you forever.
Pace was doing the work of the ruling class by making the Bonus Soldiers seem like patsies rather than what they actually were: Ordinary people in need of some financial assistance.
You can be sure the rich got all the 'buckling' they needed from Congress in those year making sure the military (MacArthur and Patton) were paid to bash heads. The rich got the government they needed and the ordinary person got less than nothing.
What you call 'mob rule' is just one form of good old democracy. And it's because you despise democracy is why the ruling class pushes 'conservatives' around all day, every day.
It was just money. They could have forked it over.
But they didn't.
You ever wonder how the communists survived all those years when, supposedly, the ruling class hated them?
Did you ever wonder how it is that the the ruling class and the communists both oppressed the same ordinary decent people?
The 'ruling class' and 'the communists' are the same people. Always have been.
The ruling class is always looking for a way to pincer ordinary working people between themselves and a corrosive criminal element that hates ordinary people as well.
It's never struck you as odd that the communists *funded themselves* for over a hundred years? You really think that's how it works? The ruling class and the communists *are the same people* and it doesn't matter which 'side' an ordinary person picks, they're not getting what they really wanted.
Pace was a plant. He did his job of discrediting ordinary people trying to get the government to respond to *their* needs for once.
It always depresses the hell outta me when I see a conservative "influencer" glazing these guys. There was one idiot who I had a pretty length argument with about this and, despite Pace's testimony, refused to listen or would just contradict himself. I think people underestimate how much of a sacred cow this event is.
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When first I heard in high school that Patton led the charge against the Bonus Army, I had a sense that perhaps the story was not as it seemed. This research cements it. It also calls to mind Patton realizing the Soviets were evil and could take Europe. He said something along the lines of giving him three weeks and he could neutralize the threat. Imagine if he hadn’t died in a mysterious truck accident and been given the chance to prevent the entire Cold War!
I think the reason why it's so hard for most Americans to see what the so-called "peaceful protesters" for what they are is because the schools, the culture, the society itself beats us over the head with the lie of power to the people/the power of the mob. Don't put your faith in the mob. Put your faith in Christ! Great article.
Put your faith in Christ...and don't forget to tithe!
Excellent piece. Very informative !
Theory: “History is written by the victors”
Reality: “History is written by commies”
This is the reason why I advocate that we treat leftists the way that our culture treats Nazis now. Accept no excuses, no explanations. Ruin friendships over it. Leftism is a cancer that must be rooted out with no half measures.
A great question to ask that is not presented in this article is the ethnic makeup of the leadership of the Bonus Army. It would not surprise me to find out that like most of the Bolsheviks, many of these men were jewish.
As far as I could tell most of the leaders (Waters, Pace, Butler, etc.) were Old Stock American. Jewish people were overrepresented in Communist Party USA, but that was always regarded as kind of a quack project. Jews weren't really major players in American leftism, at least as a percentage of formal leadership, until later. Huge figures like Clarence Darrow were Quakers (continuing progressive strain you saw in the Abolitionist/women's suffrage movement). The people who funded the Sacco and Vanzetti defense were delusional old WASP ladies in Massachusetts. Violent leftist radical movements during this time were typically either hyper-national specific (ex. the Italian Anarchists) or basically just foreign ethnic mafias (ex. McNamara brothers, union goons who blew up the LA Times Building). Obviously the Jewish role in this period, and especially the New Deal era that followed, is significant but fixating on them to the exclusion of other groups can create a very distorted picture.
There is another way to interpret the same facts: The protesters had a legitimate request. The ruling class ignored them. The communists took advantage of this. The main purpose of 'communism' among 'conservatives' is to remove the blame from the ruling class. The communists succeeded in gaining ground in America because the ruling class acted with such contempt for ordinary people. FDR came along, and at least *pretended* to care and *tried* to implement popular policies. As a result, the Democrats have a lock on whole swaths of the American population. 'Conservatives' have lost because they always sided with the ruling class which they always expected to be the ownership class. But now, the ruling class is the managerial class and they don't support 'conservatism'. So, 'conservatism' has been turned out into the wilderness to complain about how bad things are or to shift blame from their bad political decisions to 'communists'. So much for 'personal responsibility', I guess.
I don't think demanding money 15 years before it was promised is a legitimate request. That's not a good precedent to set. If Congress buckled to those threats the first time then the communist would just organize those hostage situations every single month. America has a government, not mob rule.
Also seems pretty likely that communist organizers are the ones who came up with the idea for this "request" in the first place. These mostly illiterate soldiers probably wouldn't have even thought to demand their bonus 15 years early without being encouraged...
And, what if they did? Does that mean the request wasn't legitimate? Who was Congress to not help these people out? MacArthur and Patton were thugs working for the ruling class. It's that simple. Congress was a bunch of whores committed to the interests of a very narrow economic group in the US. But you still want to believe Congress was 'doing the right thing' because 'communists' were involved. 'Communists' got involved because Congress and the ruling class wouldn't do their jobs and rule in the interests of ordinary people.
Of course you don't. You side with the bosses. Congress 'buckled' then - as now - to the rich. Is that a problem for you, too? If so, how did you choose to side with a 'Congress' full of rich people rather than 'the mob'?
And why believe Pace anyway? He's a self-admitted communist. You might as well believe a self-admitted whore that she's going to be true to you forever.
Pace was doing the work of the ruling class by making the Bonus Soldiers seem like patsies rather than what they actually were: Ordinary people in need of some financial assistance.
You can be sure the rich got all the 'buckling' they needed from Congress in those year making sure the military (MacArthur and Patton) were paid to bash heads. The rich got the government they needed and the ordinary person got less than nothing.
What you call 'mob rule' is just one form of good old democracy. And it's because you despise democracy is why the ruling class pushes 'conservatives' around all day, every day.
It was just money. They could have forked it over.
But they didn't.
You ever wonder how the communists survived all those years when, supposedly, the ruling class hated them?
Did you ever wonder how it is that the the ruling class and the communists both oppressed the same ordinary decent people?
The 'ruling class' and 'the communists' are the same people. Always have been.
The ruling class is always looking for a way to pincer ordinary working people between themselves and a corrosive criminal element that hates ordinary people as well.
It's never struck you as odd that the communists *funded themselves* for over a hundred years? You really think that's how it works? The ruling class and the communists *are the same people* and it doesn't matter which 'side' an ordinary person picks, they're not getting what they really wanted.
Pace was a plant. He did his job of discrediting ordinary people trying to get the government to respond to *their* needs for once.
Just realized I was born 50 years later to the day of this event.
lol idiot
Everyone’s a critic these days smdh