20 BIGGEST Idiots In U.S. History Your School Forced You To Memorize As Heroes
What if the “smartest people in the room” were actually the biggest idiots in American world history? This video exposes 20 of the most overrated figures and institutions in the U.S. – the ones your teachers praised, your textbooks protected, and your media turned into untouchable heroes. Behind their polished biographies are catastrophic failures, state-backed lies, and decisions so arrogant they rewired the lives of millions of people. rom so‑called “geniuses” who stole ideas and destroyed competitors, to presidents, agencies, foundations, and corporations that gambled with entire nations, we follow the same pattern again and again: (Timestamps) 00:00 - The great lie of history and historical textbooks 0:50 - Thomas Edison: Patent theft and corporate propaganda 03:01 - Richard Nixon: The stupidity of recording your own crimes 05:00 - Henry Ford: The industrial idol of the Third Reich 07:12 - Thomas Jefferson: The hypocrisy of freedom 08:47 - J. Edgar Hoover: State blackmail and mass surveillance 11:40 - Rockefeller Foundation: Buying modern medicine 13:13 - Woodrow Wilson: State segregation and government propaganda 15:22 - Walt Disney: The FBI's voluntary informant 17:16 - John H. Kellogg: Eugenics and moral control at your breakfast table 19:28 - Theodore Roosevelt: Land Expropriation and “Racial Suicide” 21:28 - Christopher Columbus: The Documented Beginning of the Slave Trade 23:54 - Woodrow Wilson (Pt. 2): Lethal Negligence and the Treaty of Versailles 26:15 - Robert McNamara: The Deadly Fallacy of Centralized Planning in Vietnam 28:35 - NASA and the Challenger: When politics silences engineering 30:58 - Irving Fisher: The arrogance of macroeconomic forecasting 33:39 – Ronald Reagan: The Great communicator And the silence that kill 36:27 – Alexander Graham Bell: The Man Who Called His lawyer 38:53 – Benjamin Franklin: The Founding Father Inconvenient 43:24 – Charles Ponzi: The Fraud 46:35 – Donald Trump: The Presidend and polemical business man 49:37 - The real lesson about unchecked institutional power If you prefer raw data and critical analysis to the packaged fairy tales that the system feeds us, subscribe to the channel. Let me know in the comments which official “hero” you want us to debunk with evidence in the next video. #History #Documentary #Interestingfacts #HistoricalMyths #Debunked #HiddenHistory #Learnsomething #Historychannel
