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2016 Postmortem
Showing Original Post only (View all)Who whould FDR support? [View all]
During President Roosevelt's January 11, 1944 message to the Congress of the United States on the State of the Union, he said the following:[2]
It is our duty now to begin to lay the plans and determine the strategy for the winning of a lasting peace and the establishment of an American standard of living higher than ever before known. We cannot be content, no matter how high that general standard of living may be, if some fraction of our peoplewhether it be one-third or one-fifth or one-tenthis ill-fed, ill-clothed, ill-housed, and insecure.
This Republic had its beginning, and grew to its present strength, under the protection of certain inalienable political rightsamong them the right of free speech, free press, free worship, trial by jury, freedom from unreasonable searches and seizures. They were our rights to life and liberty.
As our nation has grown in size and stature, howeveras our industrial economy expandedthese political rights proved inadequate to assure us equality in the pursuit of happiness.
We have come to a clear realization of the fact that true individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. Necessitous men are not free men.[3] People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.
In our day these economic truths have become accepted as self-evident. We have accepted, so to speak, a second Bill of Rights under which a new basis of security and prosperity can be established for allregardless of station, race, or creed.
Among these are:
The right to a useful and remunerative job in the industries or shops or farms or mines of the nation;
The right to earn enough to provide adequate food and clothing and recreation;
The right of every farmer to raise and sell his products at a return which will give him and his family a decent living;
The right of every businessman, large and small, to trade in an atmosphere of freedom from unfair competition and domination by monopolies at home or abroad;
The right of every family to a decent home;
The right to adequate medical care and the opportunity to achieve and enjoy good health;
The right to adequate protection from the economic fears of old age, sickness, accident, and unemployment;
The right to a good education.
All of these rights spell security. And after this war is won we must be prepared to move forward, in the implementation of these rights, to new goals of human happiness and well-being.
America's own rightful place in the world depends in large part upon how fully these and similar rights have been carried into practice for all our citizens. For unless there is security here at home there cannot be lasting peace in the world.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Bill_of_Rights
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Right? I hate these. There's another one with MLK, and I hate that people
ScreamingMeemie
Feb 2016
#23
Its FDR's own words, unless your saying that FDR was bullshitting, which I don't believe to be so
AZ Progressive
Feb 2016
#10
Stop trying to pretend that you are on the right side of the political divide
AZ Progressive
Feb 2016
#11
I think it borders on self-aggrandizement to say the dead speak for you when they can't speak for
upaloopa
Feb 2016
#27
Shameful is seeing FDR dispareged here because his policies and goals were actually liberal.
libtodeath
Feb 2016
#35
Another slur against FDR,never said he was perfect in every way but his vision of economic justice
libtodeath
Feb 2016
#40
Here is a nonprofit org & its website which you clearly would benefit from perusing~
RiverLover
Feb 2016
#56
Wow. I have 3 books on the man & his photo on my freakin wall. Look at my profile.
RiverLover
Feb 2016
#60
Traditional New Deal progressives finally have a candidate... And that is what matters.
tokenlib
Feb 2016
#73