The Most Radical Speech in Presidential History
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In 1944, an American president proposed a sweeping reorganization of American life: a "second Bill of Rights" that recognized not only political rights, but economic rights as well. Franklin Roosevelt's speech would today be regarded as far outside the political mainstream: but when it was proposed, it was overwhelmingly popular with ordinary Americans.
Harvey Kaye, historian of the American left, explains.
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Of course what FDR proposed was popular with ordinary Americans -- they had just gone thru the Depression and WWII -- ordinary Americans shouldered the brunt of what the Gilded Age brought down on the world ... unfortunately, a new Gilded Age looms with Bezos, Gates, Musk and their ilk soaking up all the loose cash, while authoritarians like Trump rile-up the ill-informed and/or disaffected members of the "ME" Generation, who have been convinced that they have been cheated out of what they were promised, but instead of blaming the new robber barons, those who feel cheated blame others just like them, but who don't LOOK like them ... the Buckleyite "Us vs Them" keeps us divided and conquered by both the robber barons AND the grifters ... if the working class would ignore differences in appearance, etc., and build solidarity based on economic similarity, prosperity for all the working class would be more likely -- but that is NOT how this nation has been indoctrinated, and it will take a HEAVY LIFT to beat back what the right-wing has built ...
2022-02-01 12:40:07 +0000 UTChttp://share.nook.com/ean/9781541736207
Charles Yaker
2022-01-10 23:26:14 +0000 UTC
