"The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it." Orwell
"“The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”
Plato
"The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant" Robespierre
Monday, March 17, 2014
He Held These Truths To Be Self-Evident
To today's Republicans, "security" means lobbing a missile once in a while, or invading the occasional country that has a crappy military to be sure people know we're the world's toughest guys. (Trying to remember: who was president when Putin invaded Georgia, and what was the timing vis a vis our invasion of Iraq, not to mention a face-to-face meeting with whichever president that was) and what did we do other than have John McCain declare, on cue, "We're all (insert name of relevant country)s now"?)
FDR, on the other hand, even in the midst of a world war, understood that real security obtains when citizens have access to jobs and living wages, among other things.
Silly commie. What did he know?
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