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Monday, January 25, 2010

Want To Be A Democrat?

Do yourself a favor, devote a little less than half an hour of your day to listening to the audio of the speech delivered by FDR to the DNC in 1936 accepting the nomination of his party for what would be the second term of his presidency. The speech, often described as "A Rendezvous With Destiny" contains the famous passages in which he declares war on the "Economic Royalists" in the spirit of a patriotic re-invocation of the Revolutionary War on the English Royalists in 1776, a war he describes as a struggle to preserve democracy in a world of industrial concentrations of wealth and abstract financial instruments (not to mention fascism) undreamed of by the Founders. You will be stunned at its relevance, and proud of the Party in whose name and spirit and image we need to push our representatives if they and we are to be equal to our own moment of planetary precarity and Corporate Royalism.

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