Retired Gen. Clark urges UVa students to help fix politics.
'Retired Gen. Wesley Clark, a former NATO supreme allied commander, spoke to dozens of University of Virginia students Friday, encouraging them to change the political atmosphere.
The one-time presidential candidate has been touring universities across the country recently as a part of his Renew America initiative to encourage students and young people to bring politicians to task and encourage political change.
At an event hosted Friday by the Student Legal Forum at UVa’s Caplin Pavilion, Clark, 74, spoke about the lessons that history has taught the United States and the difficult political situation the nation is embroiled in.
“American politics is more deeply divided than at any time since the Civil War,” he said. “People are viciously opposed in our political system. The infrastructure that is needed to be built has not been built.”
Taking a broad look back at the United States over the past century, Clark highlighted the shifts in government and how the economy has affected the role of government.
During Woodrow Wilson’s presidency, the U.S. became something akin to a dictatorship, Clark said, with the armed forces as we know it being largely established then. During the Depression in the 1930s, the government again shifted under President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Roosevelt took broad leading action, Clark said, sometimes in ways that weren’t constitutional, in order to protect American citizens.'>>>
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