FDR had vision for the good of this country and not twitter. FDR had a plan to ensure that America could form a more perfect union.
It should not have taken all of those years for the civil rights bill. We should not have homelessness. We should have a living wage. The message for our candidate should be IMO, The 2nd bill of rights as our moon shot, whoever emerges as the Democratic Candidate.
FDR laid it all out and it was shown in Michael Moore’s Capitalism a Love Story and then it just laid right there.
I hope the 2nd Bill of Rights could be laid out for people to get excited about and turn out more people to vote than ever before. I wonder if that bill is the antidote to the Koolaid.
We have gone so far off the tracks, the train is crashing and there has to be a REAL message.
The following are the words of a President in 1944. Don’t you think this idea has been ignored long enough?
In our day these economic truths have become accepted as self-evident. We have accepted, so to speak, a second Bill of Rights under which a new basis of security and prosperity can be established for all — regardless of station, race, or creed.
Among these are:
The right to a useful and remunerative job in the industries or shops or farms or mines of the nation; The right to earn enough to provide adequate food and clothing and recreation; The right of every farmer to raise and sell his products at a return which will give him and his family a decent living; The right of every businessman, large and small, to trade in an atmosphere of freedom from unfair competitionand domination by monopolies at home or abroad; The right of every family to a decent home; The right to adequate medical care and the opportunity to achieve and enjoy good health; The right to adequate protection from the economic fears of old age, sickness, accident, and unemployment; The right to a good education.We have since gained Medicare but not for all. We have now people demanded to show up for work unpaid with fear of losing their jobs or homes whenever a so called President decides to shut the government down.
We have extremely high medical prices. We have people living in a stressful situation of making ends meet. We have college absolutely not affordable. People cannot make a living wage. This needs to really be the Moon Shot for the 21st century.
We have made baby steps towards FDR’s goal but it has never been completely laid down and untouchable as a right of every American.
We have much more that can be added into the 2nd Bill of Rights but one thing for sure, it will never happen under a republican President or Congress.
We need a strong union again. We need to stop this erosion of fundamental rights of just morality, much less law.
It is past time. Americans have waited since 1944. Most if not the majority of those Americans went to their graves without seeing that vision fulfilled. Don’t we think it is time? 2nd Bill of Rights on a sign or hat sure beats that lame Make America Great Again which was the biggest lie in American History.
We need to get on one page with one true message.