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Thomas J. Adams: Which Democratic Party? Bernie Sanders and FDR's Second Bill of Rights
http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/05/05/which-democratic-party-bernie-sanders-and-fdrs-second-bill-rightsPublished on Thursday, May 05, 2016
at Common Dreams by Thomas J. Adams
"Its a moment that comes like clockwork every time I teach a course on 20th Century American history. I have seen it happen in the Midwest, the South, the Northeast, as well as in Australia. Placing the text of Franklin Roosevelts 1944 State of the Union address on the board, I turn on audio of Roosevelt delivering it to the wartime nation. As students listen to Roosevelt enumerate his Second Bill of Rights, deep surprise is registered on their faces. Hearing an American presidentone whom they can listen to speak no lesssuggest that the meaning of not just the war, but the American project as a whole was the creation of essential rights to housing, a good education, an adequate living, recreation, health care, old age security, a job, and basic welfare registers, from the perspective of the 21st Century, as a complete shock."
"Perhaps even more important than the battle for the Democratic nomination between Hilary Clinton and Bernie Sanders has been a broad historical and analytic argument lurking beneath the surface on the part of their supporters."
"To become relevant to my students, to the millions of Americans who are swimming in debt and decimated by low wages, unaffordable health care, and rising housing costs the Democratic Party must unequivocally reclaim the mantle of the Second Bill of Rights."
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Thomas J. Adams: Which Democratic Party? Bernie Sanders and FDR's Second Bill of Rights (Original Post)
whirlygigspin
May 2016
OP
ViseGrip
(3,133 posts)1. A great OP! Everyone should watch 'The Rosevelts'
Hard to believe, our country would throw that away. There will never be another, in our lifetime.
Go Bernie Sanders
The country needs you
Jopin Klobe
(779 posts)3. Not "throw" ...
... "sold" ...
merrily
(45,251 posts)2. They use "New" Democrats to distinguish themselves from New Deal and Great Society Democrats.
I'm sorry that I did not catch on to that sooner.
chknltl
(10,558 posts)4. KnR...a must for all to watch.
Well except for supporters of oligarchy or fascism who might not want such lofty notions spread to the citizenry of a failing democracy.