Excellent article & that speech by FDR brought tears to my eyes. And now so many years later we are on the precipice of a very dark period in America. I can’t understand it.
Education is Key, but good luck with that with this New administration. Everything we know is about to be turned upside down and thrown into the rubbish.Good article this morning ☕ David and will reStack ASAP !
I was born in 1941. My father was a sharecrop farmer in Kansas and my mother had lived through the worst of the Dust Bowl in the southeast corner of Colorado. Three of my uncles fought in WWII. I remain a New Deal Democrat.
On a recent trip from our home in southeast Pennsylvania to visit friends in northeast Maine we visited the JFK Presidential Library in Boston, MA and the FDR Presidential Library in Hyde Park, NY. I highly recommend both of these.
I will also tell my kids that we should demand our leaders do what's right. FDR was a good man, but he still allowed internment camps to deny some citizens their rights because of fear. We want a better FDR next, and we will do what we can to work for that--liberty and justice for *all*.
Yes, FDR was a great leader. Except when he imprisoned American citizens for the crime of having Japanese ancestors. And when he refused to allow 900 Jewish refugees aboard the M.S. St. Louis to enter the country, and instead sent them back to Germany to face the Holocaust.
Thanks for this. Nothing new or mysterious is happening here. I think I might get a good picture of Franklin and Eleanor and hang it where I can see it from my desk. My parents and grandparents on both sides will turn over in their graves.
It’s been brewing since the Bush era, but I never dreamt in my worst nightmares that it would become so accurate in both static and evolving terms.
But it goes farther than that. With their ignoring of our growing climate crisis, their plan to “drill, baby drill,“ and they’re paving away for the most sociopathic oligarchy possible, we are looking at
#Planet KILLERS
They have lit the fuse on civilized society. Will we make it as a species to the next century? They don’t care. It’s time to pillage and that’s all that matters.
Democracy is a verb, every generation must work to save it. A peculiar weakness of the human condition is how short our memories. That, and we wait for crisis to inspire us. This is our crisis to manage.
Excellent article & that speech by FDR brought tears to my eyes. And now so many years later we are on the precipice of a very dark period in America. I can’t understand it.
Education is Key, but good luck with that with this New administration. Everything we know is about to be turned upside down and thrown into the rubbish.Good article this morning ☕ David and will reStack ASAP !
I was born in 1941. My father was a sharecrop farmer in Kansas and my mother had lived through the worst of the Dust Bowl in the southeast corner of Colorado. Three of my uncles fought in WWII. I remain a New Deal Democrat.
On a recent trip from our home in southeast Pennsylvania to visit friends in northeast Maine we visited the JFK Presidential Library in Boston, MA and the FDR Presidential Library in Hyde Park, NY. I highly recommend both of these.
https://www.fdrlibrary.org/
We cannot give up. Our kids are counting on us.
Bravo, David. We must never, never, never, never give up. Our grandchildren and theirs depend on us.
I will also tell my kids that we should demand our leaders do what's right. FDR was a good man, but he still allowed internment camps to deny some citizens their rights because of fear. We want a better FDR next, and we will do what we can to work for that--liberty and justice for *all*.
Yes, FDR was a great leader. Except when he imprisoned American citizens for the crime of having Japanese ancestors. And when he refused to allow 900 Jewish refugees aboard the M.S. St. Louis to enter the country, and instead sent them back to Germany to face the Holocaust.
We will persevere.
Thanks for this. Nothing new or mysterious is happening here. I think I might get a good picture of Franklin and Eleanor and hang it where I can see it from my desk. My parents and grandparents on both sides will turn over in their graves.
We need to popularize this term now:
#RepubloFascism
It’s been brewing since the Bush era, but I never dreamt in my worst nightmares that it would become so accurate in both static and evolving terms.
But it goes farther than that. With their ignoring of our growing climate crisis, their plan to “drill, baby drill,“ and they’re paving away for the most sociopathic oligarchy possible, we are looking at
#Planet KILLERS
They have lit the fuse on civilized society. Will we make it as a species to the next century? They don’t care. It’s time to pillage and that’s all that matters.
There will be no more mandates
Disgusting turn of events, but not wholly unpredictable. Greed and power go hand in hand.
Democracy is a verb, every generation must work to save it. A peculiar weakness of the human condition is how short our memories. That, and we wait for crisis to inspire us. This is our crisis to manage.
Such inspiring and prescient words. Thanks for sharing. We have hbeem given much. Now we have to save it.