re: Reasons Woodrow Wilson Destroyed the United States

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I agree he was the worst but where were the other branches to check his power?

Why did the electorate allow it?

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In that time period you had quite a leftist swing in the nation. You had industrialization and some mega companies that were perceived to be screwing the population overall (much like today).

Also you had some developments in medical care like xrays. This caused quite a rise in medical care costs and things like insurance weren't really a thing.

Medicine was a cash proposition back then and it quickly got to be too expensive, which led a lot of people to look toward socialist approaches to take on these issues. Back then however, academia and professional organizations were not full of whack jobs - it was academia and bodies like the American Medical Association that launched campaigns to educate Americans on the disaster that would take place if socialist policies were adopted.

Thankfully medicine was not socialized, but the prevailing thought allowed morons like Wilson to do what they did. The increasing tech and costs of medicine would eventually lead to the 1965 Medicare Act which ramped up demand and thus prices, which set the course for the bad state of affairs in medicine today.