The Republican Four Freedoms
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In his 1941 State of the Union address , Franklin Roosevelt said there was “nothing mysterious about the foundations of a healthy and strong democracy” and that he, along with the nation, looked forward to “a world founded upon four essential human freedoms.” Famously, those freedoms were the “freedom of speech and expression,” the “freedom of every person to worship God in his own way,” the “freedom from want” and the “freedom from fear.” Those freedoms were the guiding lights of his New Deal, and they remained the guiding lights of his administration through the trials of World War II.
There are, I think, four freedoms we can glean from the Republican program.
There is the freedom to control — to restrict the bodily autonomy of women and repress the existence of anyone who does not conform to traditional gender roles.
There is the freedom to exploit — to allow the owners of business and capital to weaken labor and take advantage of workers as they see fit.
There is the freedom to censor — to suppress ideas that challenge and threaten the ideologies of the ruling class.
And there is the freedom to menace — to carry weapons wherever you please, to brandish them in public, to turn the right of self-defense into a right to threaten other people.
Roosevelt’s four freedoms were the building blocks of a humane society — a social democratic aspiration for egalitarians then and now. These Republican freedoms are also building blocks not of a humane society but of a rigid and hierarchical one, in which you can either dominate or be dominated.
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A bunch of hysterical what-ifs and maybes issuing from a deluded and paranoid mind. Only weak minded and uninformed fools believe this fear mongering bilge. This is all the far left seems to be capable of offering to the people, but the people aren't buying it.
Fuck all far right wing fascists. Real Americans killed them in WW!!.
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Franklin Roosevelt's Four Democratic Freedoms - Happy 4th of July!
Freedom from progressive perverts sexualizing and grooming children
And all the left seems to want to do is inspire fear in everyone.
If you know of sexual perverts sexualizing children then you must immediately report that to the police, because that is illegal and a serious crime. But, if you are talking about LGTBQ persons living their best authentic lives not hurting anyone then making such false claims against them is also a crime, which is punishable! "Thou Shalt Not Bear False Witness" - GOD, and common law...
“And all the left seems to want to do is inspire fear in everyone.”
The fear is yours and yours alone. All anyone wants is to be left alone by the state to live their lives openly, oppression free and on equal terms. This day, of all days, should be a reminder that the promise is there, but the problems still exist.
Some (not all) of both groups playing dress up has hurt children.
Only one of the two groups is trying to normalize it. The other keeps it hidden knowing it is perverted and wrong; and if they are caught they will be punished.
If you can't tell which one is which; you need to come back into the real world.
Liberals don't tend to be child abusers. [Deleted]
Please show us your stats and source.
Indeed I do.
Now people here like to ridicule those that do.,
Far right wing fascists are deserving of ridicule.
Ignorance and stupidity should always have a bright light shined on it.
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