I'll quote again Roosevelt's prescient statement:
Unhappy events abroad have retaught us two simple truths about the liberty of a democratic people. 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.
The second truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe if its business system does not provide employment and produce and distribute goods in such a way as to sustain an acceptable standard of living. Both lessons hit home. Among us today a concentration of private power without equal in history is growing.
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FDR was the right person at the right time. America needed him, and he was there. Where is our FDR today?
I remember Schlesinger writing that in sociopolitical matters, FDR could not be intimidated by "mere millionaires." If only that were true of Obama!
"but I repeat myself."
You and Mark Twain! :-)
[CAPTCHA text: "begod" ... NO, begod, I won't take it anymore!]
Twain's joke was much much better...
And since I'm signing in with this comment, my CAPTCHA is "tropo"... I'm making a trope with this joke? Or maybe an Italian trope?
... Ma non troppo... in English, "Not too much of Ma!"
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