Not to be “that guy” but the bonus army thing was directly tied to an attempted fascist takeover of the United States by business interests. It’s literally called the business plot. Basically some very powerful businessmen tried getting a very popular war hero to overthrow the government, they offered him money, guns, power, everything. The war hero refused because he had some loyalty to the USA and reported it to congress, where he was laughed out and never taken seriously again.
The bonus army was supposed to have been armed with guns and stormed the White House, but the person capitalists were counting on bailed before they got the ball rolling. Like yeah those people were vets from ww1 who were there to get their bonuses, but like they also created the silver legion, so frankly I wished the us army fired a Gatling gun into that crowd and killed all of them.
i think your timeline is a little off. the bonus army was dispersed by hoover (and cost him the election). the business plot (1 year later) was an attempt to get smeadly butler to lead a "bonus army like column" to overthrow FDR, who they considered no better then a commie.
good thing butler was a socialist the whole time. they probably should have read his book.
Remember that time a bunch of peaceful protesters met in a national capitol and the oppressive regime rolled out tanks on them?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonus_Army
Not to be “that guy” but the bonus army thing was directly tied to an attempted fascist takeover of the United States by business interests. It’s literally called the business plot. Basically some very powerful businessmen tried getting a very popular war hero to overthrow the government, they offered him money, guns, power, everything. The war hero refused because he had some loyalty to the USA and reported it to congress, where he was laughed out and never taken seriously again.
The bonus army was supposed to have been armed with guns and stormed the White House, but the person capitalists were counting on bailed before they got the ball rolling. Like yeah those people were vets from ww1 who were there to get their bonuses, but like they also created the silver legion, so frankly I wished the us army fired a Gatling gun into that crowd and killed all of them.
So it only seemed like an organic protest, but in reality it was propped up by capital with the intent of violently confronting the state?
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i think your timeline is a little off. the bonus army was dispersed by hoover (and cost him the election). the business plot (1 year later) was an attempt to get smeadly butler to lead a "bonus army like column" to overthrow FDR, who they considered no better then a commie.
good thing butler was a socialist the whole time. they probably should have read his book.
Prescott Bush, George HW Bush’s dad, was one of the leaders of the business plot