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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIf you could go back in time and prevent the birth of one person who would it be?
Your time machine is a bit limited so you can't go back farther than 1900 so Hitler isn't an option.
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Osama Bin Laden | |
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Rupert Murdoch | |
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Donald Trump | |
2 (20%) |
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Vladimir Putin | |
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Ronald Reagan | |
1 (10%) |
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George W Bush | |
1 (10%) |
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Other | |
6 (60%) |
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kysrsoze
(6,022 posts)Response to Kablooie (Original post)
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shanny
(6,709 posts)B2G
(9,766 posts)Really?
Kablooie
(18,634 posts)Obviously he would be #1 if your machine could go back that far.
ms liberty
(8,580 posts)demmiblue
(36,865 posts)You never know the outcome!
ADX
(1,622 posts)He and the Khmer Rouge were responsible for the deaths of perhaps 3,000,000 people...
scheming daemons
(25,487 posts)Don't take any chances.
Spider Jerusalem
(21,786 posts)smartphones and Facebook have probably been far worse for democracy than anything else in the last 50 years or so.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Trump is only my most recent trouble. Other situations have been worse (personally) and gone on far longer. I'd have been better off ... not being.
phylny
(8,381 posts)but your statement and sentiment break my heart.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)DU has often given me a bit of hope over the years and it's good to see there are good people in the world.
lpbk2713
(42,760 posts)B Grade actor. F Grade president.
MountCleaners
(1,148 posts)He made Trump possible.
jcmaine72
(1,773 posts)If none of you have ever hard of him it's because I've already gone back in time and killed him.
Iggo
(47,558 posts)Fix it in the present, or live with it broke.
3catwoman3
(24,007 posts)If I can choose only one, I'll pick Trump.
Iggo
(47,558 posts)Hekate
(90,716 posts)...and that killing him in the cradle, or when he was a corporal in WWI, would not have changed the arc of history much because he was only the manifestation of a virulent and systemic cultural infection, and that was what needed to be dealt with above all.
I could argue this or that point -- but that thought has really stuck with me.
Kablooie
(18,634 posts)My choice would be Rupert Murdoch because his media companies have been spreading the insane version of conservatism for decades to the whole English speaking world.
Calculating
(2,955 posts)By doing so you stop two evils at once. Trump wouldn't be a problem if he wasn't the president.
demsocialist
(202 posts)Awsi Dooger
(14,565 posts)Trump is an obvious choice but it only fixes things politically beginning November 2016.
If you go back to Oswald then maybe those political assassinations don't become a thing and Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy survive also. Probably prevents Nixon and Watergate. Maybe Reagan never happens.
If you have JFK alive and representing the party and its beliefs for another 30-40 years I have to think that is a massive positive and cannot be understated.
I'm a huge believer that one turn in the road now can change anything and everything later, far beyond what is typically accepted by conventional wisdom.