Reply #24: "evils of the old order"

[rman]

"Finally, in our progress toward a resumption of work we require two safeguards against a return of the evils of the old order; there must be a strict supervision of all banking and credits and investments; there must be an end to speculation with other people’s money, and there must be provision for an adequate but sound currency."

I guess in the end that didn't exactly work out as planned.

also Roosevelt:

"The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic State itself. That, in essence, is Fascism - ownership of government by an individual, by a group or by any controlling private power."

"The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the large centers has owned the government ever since the days of Andrew Jackson."


Many other people of power, from Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln to Otto Von Bismarck and Alan Greenspan, have warned about financial institutions and corporations being engaged in corrupting politics in order to, in effect, steal the peoples wealth.
FDR says in so many words that the "evils of the old order" (in that case the "Rulers of the Exchange of Mankind's Goods" and the "Money Changers") is a fascist power.

Seeing the lack of 'safeguards against a return of the evils of the old order' today, seeing the unheard of corruption in big corporations, seeing the corporate media propaganda machine, knowing about corporate influence in politics, hearing statesmen talk of perpetual and total war based on inference, i can't help but think that the aggregation of wealth by a few is actually in full swing.