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If you want to understand why FDR was the greatest president we ever had thus far, listen to this podcast. He lifted us out of the Great Depression, rebuilt the US Navy, and won World War II, just for starters.

FDR was a person of deep convictions and strong morals, but also decisive action.

The kind of leader fascists simply can't produce. Try to be the next FDR. Ask yourself what he would do (or heck, Eleanor, for that matter).

youtu.be/ACv-TEcGSLk

A quotation from Franklin Roosevelt

Among us today a concentration of private power without equal in history is growing. This concentration is seriously impairing the economic effectiveness of private enterprise as a way of providing employment for labor and capital and as a way of assuring a more equitable distribution of income and earnings among the people of the nation as a whole.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945) American lawyer, politician, statesman, US President (1933-1945)
Message (1938-04-29) to Congress, On Curbing Monopolies

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/roosevelt-franklin-d…

A quotation from Franklin 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 its essence, is Fascism — ownership of Government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945) American lawyer, politician, statesman, US President (1933-1945)
Message (1938-04-29) to Congress, On Curbing Monopolies

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/roosevelt-franklin-d…

c.im/@ZhiZhu@newsie.social

The Zhi Zhu post (attached) is one of the most important messages of the past week. Franklin Roosevelt saw the Hitler threat long before the American public did. FDR needed to do the groundwork for American intervention, which, by the way, started long before the bombing of Pearl Harbor. US history is filled with major examples. Right now, according to public opinion polling, the American public is not with us on Gaza. We need Capitol Hill "leadership" to lead on this issue and many others and we positively are not getting it. It has been altogether too convenient to just slide along while Bernie Sanders says what needs to be said. Young or not so young, we need a new group of Democratic politicians who do not leave their spines at home.

Eightysix47

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