Re: Fat Man Needs to go, play sports, and get some damn exer
Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2011 8:41 am
@ Fat Man
People whom Bush views as non-Americans and not worth helping need to be honest with themselves about that fact. Those people include: (i) non-Christians, and (ii) the poor and the lower middle-class.
The Bushes are public (I guess?) about not considering agnostics and atheists to be true Americans. What they are more secretive about is that they don't really consider poor American families to have equal value to families from the class of rich Americans to which they themselves belong.
However, there ARE people who do want to see your lot in life -- and mine -- improve, or at least, not get any worse. For lack of a better term I'm going to call those people "the Roosevelt faction".
We of the Roosevelt faction need to band together in the years ahead. I think we need to resolve to pursue for all the Four Freedoms which Roosevelt, in his 1941 State of the Union address, proclaimed all people should enjoy:
But while we keep those Four Freedoms in mind as goals, we also need to realise that there are forces opposing us in our struggle. Although we are not Marxists, we do need to realise the truth: that we of the Roosevelt faction are involved in a bitter class struggle with a plutocracy that wants to make the lives of the poor so utterly miserable that the poor will not reproduce. Hell, our faction's opponents would probably be overjoyed if we'd all just kill ourselves, leaving the world for the top 10% (by net worth) to enjoy alone, without all the riff-raff. That is their goal, I think: to eliminate us. So given the struggle we are involved in, and given that the goals of our faction's opponents involve our annihilation, I think we need to think of ourselves as members of the Roosevelt faction first, and as Americans only second. We first need to work towards obtaining the four freedoms for members of our own faction before we can worry about extending the Four Freedoms to those outside our faction who don't believe in happy, fulfilling lives for all.
People whom Bush views as non-Americans and not worth helping need to be honest with themselves about that fact. Those people include: (i) non-Christians, and (ii) the poor and the lower middle-class.
The Bushes are public (I guess?) about not considering agnostics and atheists to be true Americans. What they are more secretive about is that they don't really consider poor American families to have equal value to families from the class of rich Americans to which they themselves belong.
However, there ARE people who do want to see your lot in life -- and mine -- improve, or at least, not get any worse. For lack of a better term I'm going to call those people "the Roosevelt faction".
We of the Roosevelt faction need to band together in the years ahead. I think we need to resolve to pursue for all the Four Freedoms which Roosevelt, in his 1941 State of the Union address, proclaimed all people should enjoy:
The people at Wikipedia wrote:The Four Freedoms were goals articulated by US President Franklin D. Roosevelt on January 6, 1941. In an address known as the Four Freedoms speech (technically the 1941 State of the Union address), he proposed four fundamental freedoms that people "everywhere in the world" ought to enjoy:
1. Freedom of speech and expression
2. Freedom of worship
3. Freedom from want
4. Freedom from fear
But while we keep those Four Freedoms in mind as goals, we also need to realise that there are forces opposing us in our struggle. Although we are not Marxists, we do need to realise the truth: that we of the Roosevelt faction are involved in a bitter class struggle with a plutocracy that wants to make the lives of the poor so utterly miserable that the poor will not reproduce. Hell, our faction's opponents would probably be overjoyed if we'd all just kill ourselves, leaving the world for the top 10% (by net worth) to enjoy alone, without all the riff-raff. That is their goal, I think: to eliminate us. So given the struggle we are involved in, and given that the goals of our faction's opponents involve our annihilation, I think we need to think of ourselves as members of the Roosevelt faction first, and as Americans only second. We first need to work towards obtaining the four freedoms for members of our own faction before we can worry about extending the Four Freedoms to those outside our faction who don't believe in happy, fulfilling lives for all.
