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Nathaniel Gregory<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@RonSupportsYou" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>RonSupportsYou</span></a></span> Look at where elected more <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Democrats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Democrats</span></a> got ya, it got you <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DonaldTrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DonaldTrump</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/JDVance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JDVance</span></a>. Great fucking job &amp; goal right there!</p><p>There's a quote about <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FDR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FDR</span></a> and his <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NewDeal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NewDeal</span></a>: "Roosevelt did not carry out the Socialist platform, unless he carried it out on a stretcher." ~ Norman Thomas</p><p><a href="https://howiehawkins.us/sanders-socialism-is-old-fashioned-liberalism/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">howiehawkins.us/sanders-social</span><span class="invisible">ism-is-old-fashioned-liberalism/</span></a></p>
jackhutton 🇺🇸<p>Excerpt From<br>Hitler's First Hundred Days<br>Peter Fritzsche</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/hitlersFirstHundredDays" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hitlersFirstHundredDays</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/peterFritzsche" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>peterFritzsche</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Books</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/FDR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FDR</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/leadership" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>leadership</span></a></p>
MugsysRapSheet 🔩🐑🐘<p>I DIDN'T THINK THE <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NarcissistInChief" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NarcissistInChief</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EgomaniacInChief" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EgomaniacInChief</span></a> COULD GET any more <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Delusional" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Delusional</span></a>: 🤦‍♂️ </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DementiaDon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DementiaDon</span></a> just compared his <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/First100Days" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>First100Days</span></a> to that of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FDR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FDR</span></a>. He thinks he inherited a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GreatDepression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GreatDepression</span></a>.</p><p>FDR was elected in the midst of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TheGreatDepression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheGreatDepression</span></a>. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NaziDon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NaziDon</span></a> inherited 4.2% <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/unemployment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>unemployment</span></a> and is CAUSING the next <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Depression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Depression</span></a> via his stupidity.</p><p>FDR got Congress to pass 100s of new reforms.<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DictatorDon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DictatorDon</span></a> is doing everything via <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ExecutiveOrder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ExecutiveOrder</span></a>. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/100Days" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>100Days</span></a><br><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/28/trump-fdr-100-days/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">washingtonpost.com/politics/20</span><span class="invisible">25/04/28/trump-fdr-100-days/</span></a></p>
pennine<p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>'s 'peace terms' re <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Ukraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ukraine</span></a> are a total betrayal of Ukraine &amp; basic human values i.e. they do not value human beings as ends in themselves. Trump has allied the US with dictatorship, unthinkable not long ago. <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/FDR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FDR</span></a> would be appalled, as should all right thinking Americans. <a href="https://shorturl.at/zSFFl" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">shorturl.at/zSFFl</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/StandwithUkraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StandwithUkraine</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/RejoinEU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RejoinEU</span></a></p>
Robert H<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@kurtsh" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>kurtsh</span></a></span> </p><p>To put <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Hegseth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hegseth</span></a> into perspective, read the bio of Henry L. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Stimson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Stimson</span></a> previously Secretary of War and Secretary of State under <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Republicans</span></a> before <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FDR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FDR</span></a> chose him.</p><p><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_L._Stimson" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_</span><span class="invisible">L._Stimson</span></a></p>
Nathaniel Gregory<p>They refuse to compute &amp; understand the conditions that led up to the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FDR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FDR</span></a> / <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SocDem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SocDem</span></a> style of reform for prosperity &amp; hegemony which was pushed by violent &amp; non-violent class struggle many <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Socialist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Socialist</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Marxist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Marxist</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Communist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Communist</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Anarchist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Anarchist</span></a> protests like the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CoalWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CoalWar</span></a> for example.</p><p>That Era will not come back, no matter what <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Progressive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Progressive</span></a> people who're tied to the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Democrats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Democrats</span></a> say, it will not come back.</p>
Nathaniel Gregory<p>There's good reason not to trust <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SocialDemocrats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SocialDemocrats</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FDR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FDR</span></a> fetishists who literally see us as the enemy, rightfully so, as we don't agree with your way which has failed ever since the late 1890's of electing better <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Democrats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Democrats</span></a>.</p><p>Where has it gotten you? It got you your <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Progressive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Progressive</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/dems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dems</span></a> end up being careerists who <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/organize" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>organize</span></a> into Top-down fundraising orgs as every Democratic orgs with no membership rights nor duties as the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DemocraticParty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DemocraticParty</span></a> isn't held accountable.</p>
Catherine Schmidt<p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ushistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ushistory</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/fdr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fdr</span></a> <br>Heather Cox Richardson Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire 147 young people were dead,<br>3/25/1911<br>Once in office, [Francis] Perkins was a driving force behind the administration’s massive investment in public works projects to get people back to work. She urged the government to spend $3.3 billion on schools, roads, housing, &amp; post offices. Those projects employed more than a million people in 1934.<br><a href="https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/march-25-2025?r=ymxmu&amp;utm_medium=ios" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">open.substack.com/pub/heatherc</span><span class="invisible">oxrichardson/p/march-25-2025?r=ymxmu&amp;utm_medium=ios</span></a></p>
Nia Molinari<p>"We do only a small part of our duty to America when we glory in the great past. Patriotism that stops with that is a too-easy patriotism...For each generation the more patriotic part is to carry forward American freedom &amp; American peace by making them living facts in a living present."</p><p>--FDR, 1936</p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.snorklr.com/@gregolear" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>gregolear</span></a></span> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/FDR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FDR</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://gregolear.substack.com/p/sunday-pages-la-liberte-eclairant" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">gregolear.substack.com/p/sunda</span><span class="invisible">y-pages-la-liberte-eclairant</span></a></p>
Andrew Shields<p>The linen closet was stuffed with towels, / and between those towels, more letters.</p><p>The Immigrant <br>Julie Standig </p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/Poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Poetry</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/JulieStandig" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JulieStandig</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/TheImmigrant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheImmigrant</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Immigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Immigration</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/BergenBelsen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BergenBelsen</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Aunt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Aunt</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/SurfAvenue" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SurfAvenue</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/German" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>German</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Polish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Polish</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Hebrew" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hebrew</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/ILGWU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ILGWU</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Citizenship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Citizenship</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/FDR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FDR</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/WinstonChurchill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WinstonChurchill</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Democracy</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://oneartpoetry.com/2025/03/16/the-immigrant-by-julie-standig/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">oneartpoetry.com/2025/03/16/th</span><span class="invisible">e-immigrant-by-julie-standig/</span></a></p>
RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mas.to/@IanDSmith" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>IanDSmith</span></a></span> </p><blockquote><p>" ...the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerated the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself. That in its essence is fascism: ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or any controlling private power." - FDR, 1938</p></blockquote><p>I'm printing this out. Great explainer. Very clear.</p><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/boostingIsSharing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>boostingIsSharing</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writer</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>author</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/definition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>definition</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/fdr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fdr</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writer</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>author</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writersOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writersOfMastodon</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writingComunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writingComunity</span></a></p>
Yoshimatsu ✅🇺🇸 🇺🇦<p>"MAGAmoron expected to invoke wartime authority to speed up mass deportation effort in coming days"</p><p>ICYMI, this is the same law <a href="https://toot.community/tags/FDR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FDR</span></a> used to send <a href="https://toot.community/tags/Americans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Americans</span></a> of <a href="https://toot.community/tags/Japanese" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Japanese</span></a> ancestry to <a href="https://toot.community/tags/concentration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>concentration</span></a> camps as an excuse to loot their land and property. Does anyone know the :mastodon: IP address at <a href="https://toot.community/tags/Manzanar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Manzanar</span></a> bc that's prob where I'll soon be logging in.</p><p><a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2025/03/13/politics/alien-enemies-act-deportation-consideration/index.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">edition.cnn.com/2025/03/13/pol</span><span class="invisible">itics/alien-enemies-act-deportation-consideration/index.html</span></a></p>
jackhutton 🇺🇸<p>“Almighty God: [..] With Thy blessing, we shall prevail over the unholy forces of our enemy. Help us to conquer the apostles of greed and racial arrogancies. Lead us to the saving of our country, and with our sister Nations into a world unity that will spell a sure peace, a peace invulnerable to the scheming of unworthy men. And a peace that will let all men live in freedom, reaping the just rewards of their honest toil.”</p><p>Franklin D. Roosevelt, D-Day Prayer, June 6, 1944, <br><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/FDR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FDR</span></a></p>
jackhutton 🇺🇸<p>2. "Only total victory can reward the champions of tolerance, and decency, and freedom, and faith.”</p><p>Excerpt From<br>Awakening the Spirit of America<br>Paul M. Sparrow </p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/AwakeningTheSpiritOfAmerica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AwakeningTheSpiritOfAmerica</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/paulmsparrow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>paulmsparrow</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/fdr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fdr</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bookstodon</span></a></p>
jackhutton 🇺🇸<p>“When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.”</p><p>Franklin D. Roosevelt, September 11, 1941 radio address.</p><p>Awakening the Spirit of America<br>Paul M. Sparrow</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/AwakeningTheSpiritOfAmerica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AwakeningTheSpiritOfAmerica</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/paulmsparrow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>paulmsparrow</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/fdr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fdr</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bookstodon</span></a></p>
jackhutton 🇺🇸<p>“It is, therefore, proof—if any proof is needed—that our confidence in the future of democracy has not diminished in this Nation and will not diminish.” <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/FDR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FDR</span></a></p>
jackhutton 🇺🇸<p>"[A nation] must believe in the past. It must believe in the future. It must, above all, believe in the capacity of its own people so to learn from the past that they can gain in judgment in creating their own future.”</p><p>Franklin D. Roosevelt, June 30, 1941, Hyde Park</p><p>Awakening the Spirit of America<br>Paul M. Sparrow<br><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/AwakeningTheSpiritOfAmerica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AwakeningTheSpiritOfAmerica</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/paulmsparrow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>paulmsparrow</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/fdr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fdr</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bookstodon</span></a></p>
jackhutton 🇺🇸<p>"never in the history of the world has a nation lost its democracy by a successful struggle to defend its democracy. We must not be defeated by the fear of the very danger which we are preparing to resist. Our freedom has shown its ability to survive war, but our freedom would never survive surrender. The only thing we have to fear, is fear itself.”</p><p>Franklin D. Roosevelt, May 27, 1941 </p><p>Awakening the Spirit of America<br>Paul M. Sparrow <br><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/AwakeningTheSpiritOfAmerica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AwakeningTheSpiritOfAmerica</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/paulmsparrow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>paulmsparrow</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/fdr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fdr</span></a></p>
Catherine Schmidt<p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/oligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>oligarchy</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/FDR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FDR</span></a></p>
Dark Photon Studio<p>2/2 <a href="https://metalhead.club/tags/Harris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Harris</span></a> and the <a href="https://metalhead.club/tags/Democrats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Democrats</span></a> were never going to fix this. At best, they would have slowed <a href="https://metalhead.club/tags/Americas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Americas</span></a> decline. Why? Because <a href="https://metalhead.club/tags/neoliberal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>neoliberal</span></a> <a href="https://metalhead.club/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>capitalism</span></a> eats itself. <a href="https://metalhead.club/tags/Liberals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Liberals</span></a> are Neoliberals. It is a right-wing position, just a kinder, gentler capitalist philosophy (lol). And that’s why they would never fix what needs fixed. That’s why, even when the Dems were in power, they did very little to correct an unsustainable direction. America hasn’t had a real <a href="https://metalhead.club/tags/leftwing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>leftwing</span></a> movement since <a href="https://metalhead.club/tags/FDR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FDR</span></a>. The malaise of the <a href="https://metalhead.club/tags/1970s" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>1970s</span></a> should have been an indicator things weren’t working. Instead, the <a href="https://metalhead.club/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> kicked the can down the road with <a href="https://metalhead.club/tags/Reagan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Reagan</span></a>, and then <a href="https://metalhead.club/tags/Clinton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Clinton</span></a>.</p>