Attention Democrats! This is a back to basics moment.

[Fovea]

Specifically for the healthcare debate, bringing the CIA under some sort of control, I present to you, your defining axioms--

FDR's four freedoms--

“ In the future days, which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms.
The first is freedom of speech and expression--everywhere in the world.

The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way--everywhere in the world.

The third is freedom from want--which, translated into universal terms, means economic understandings which will secure to every nation a healthy peacetime life for its inhabitants--everywhere in the world.

The fourth is freedom from fear--which, translated into world terms, means a world-wide reduction of armaments to such a point and in such a thorough fashion that no nation will be in a position to commit an act of physical aggression against any neighbor--anywhere in the world.
That is no vision of a distant millennium. It is a definite basis for a kind of world attainable in our own time and generation. That kind of world is the very antithesis of the so-called new order of tyranny which the dictators seek to create with the crash of a bomb.
”

— Franklin D. Roosevelt, excerpted from the Annual Message to the Congress, January 6, 1941

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[OHdem10]

1. Great Post --Thanks!

[Winterblues]

2. reduction of armaments ...Oh no FDR was a gun grabber

:shrug: I guess Americans are special. We get to keep and in fact increase our Armaments while demanding the rest of the world get rid of theirs.
"and in such a thorough fashion that no nation will be in a position to commit an act of physical aggression against any neighbor--anywhere in the world."
No Nation except of course the USA but we would never commit an act of physical aggression against any other country. Not the good ol' USA..

[Fovea]

3. "Not the good old USA"

Such was the degree of the moral authority we have lost, that less than a decade ago you might have used that phrase and I would have taken it at face value.