A warning from way back when...from FDR

[zeemike]

The first truth is that 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 D. Roosevelt, April 29, 1938. Message to congress.

[sigmasix]

1. great president and intellectual giant NT

[Uncle Joe]

2. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, zeemike.

[zeemike]

4. Your welcome

I had read this before sometime back but stumbled across it again and though it appropriate for these times...

[Auggie]

3. K&R

[ErikJ]

5. He got that from Jefferson quote -my sig line.

[zeemike]

6. Which proves this is nothing new.

And there are some that would say because it is not new it don't matter...and I can't figure out why,
It seems to me it matters more, because they saw it coming from the start.

[ErikJ]

7. It is THE #1 most important issue of our day!

It is the root cause of every one of our problems. Big Oil/Coal is in fact dooming the whole planet.

[zeemike]

8. And I agree with that.

And what fuels these big oil and corporations is the love of money...the root of the root.

[ErikJ]

9. And the only way to control unlimited greed is much higher taxes on the rich.

Right now the taxes on the rich are so low that they are just competing for positions on the Forbes Richest 400 list with no care for the country , people or planet.

[AzDar]

10. K & (FD)R

[Scuba]

11. Morning kick.

[raouldukelives]

12. Our democracy went up for sale. Corporations bought it, investors financed it. Win-win. For them. nt

[truebluegreen]

13. Bingo.

[reusrename]

14. This makes me think about Elanor Roosevelt.

I bet Michelle could close Gitmo fairly quickly.

[zeemike]

15. She was my mothers hero.

She told us kids all about her...She never talked much about FDR but Elanor was a saint in her eyes.

[geek tragedy]

16. Followed by "round up all the Japanese and put them in camps" nt

[zeemike]

17. I never said he was perfict.

But you have one legitimate complaint against him compared to many things he did right....the reverse of Obama as it stands now.

[geek tragedy]

18. "the reverse of Obama" oh please, what a bunch of crap.

FDR refused to have the federal government get involved in preventing LYNCHINGS in the south.

Combine that with racist concentration camps, and he has the worst civil liberties record of any president in the 20th century.

Much, much, much worse than Obama's civil rights/civil liberties record.