Posted on 01/06/2025 8:01:36 AM PST by Ozguy1945
Times have changed.
Consider these quotes from Roosevelt’s classic Four Freedoms Speech, January 6, 1941, contrasted with quotes from President Trump on January 6, 2021 and others:
"....... Members of this new Congress ....... at no previous time has American security been as seriously threatened from without as it is today.” – FDR, 1941.
cf DJT in 2021: “Our country has had enough. We will not take it anymore …… We’re gathered together in the heart of our nation’s capital for one very, very basic and simple reason: to save our democracy.“
"(The dictators’) only interest is in a new one-way international law ...... an instrument of oppression.” – FDR
cf DJT: “We don’t have a free and fair press. ....... It suppresses thought, it suppresses speech and it’s become the enemy of the people. “
"The best way of dealing with the few slackers or trouble makers ....... is to use the sovereignty of government to save government.” – FDR
cf Professor Alan Dershowitz, November, 2024: “This lawfare has to come to an end. It’s destroying America ....... and that’s why so many voted for Trump.”
"A good society is able to face schemes of world domination and foreign revolutions alike without fear.” – FDR
cf Tulsi Gabbard, 11th October, 2022: ”....... today’s Democratic Party ....... now under the complete control of an elitist cabal of warmongers driven by cowardly wokeness, who divide us by racializing every issue & stoke anti-white racism, actively work to undermine our God-given freedoms, are hostile to people of faith & spirituality, demonize the police & protect criminals at the expense of law-abiding Americans, believe in open borders, weaponize the national security state to go after political opponents, and above all, are dragging us ever closer to nuclear war ……”
Times have changed.
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FDR was the father of the Democrat party using Government to spy on and harass political opponents.
Hoover is always the scapegoat to deflect attention from the fact FDR was just fine with what he was doing.
As the Declaration of Independence (DOI) states, our individual rights are God-given and not derived from man or his gov’t.
Among those rights are Life, Liberty, and Free Pursuits. In the context of America’s founding and heritage, “liberty” or “freedom” refers directly to freedom from gov’t coercion. Our rights, powers, and freedoms are between each of us and our God.
So according to the DOI, America was founded on the principle that a very limited gov’t was a necessary evil to protect our God-given freedoms mainly from foreign threats and attacks. The people making up constitutional state sovereignty - decentralized and local gov’t - would take care of internal issues of law and order.
The greatest debate at our founding and ratification of the Constitution was the delegation of certain rights and liberties in order to create the necessary evil of a very limited national gov’t. This debate is what gave rise to the first ten amendments to assure to anti-federalists of constitutionally-protected freedoms.
Two of FDR’s “freedoms” were “Freedom from want” and “Freedom from fear”. FDR was trying to make gov’t the source of our freedoms so that our rights and freedoms would be between each of us and gov’t.
The Constitution is the protector of our individual freedoms from gov’t coercion. Gov’t is part of the protection of our freedoms, but not dispenser or source of our freedoms. FDR was trying to institute a lie by making “fear” - need for safety - as a means of undercutting the Constitution which created and severely limited the federal gov’t. As then, so now, FDR and the Left try to replace faith with fear to institute tyranny.
Beginning around 1900, society began to turn from trusting in God to trusting in man and his gov’t. From there we got FDR and his ilk making the federal gov’t mostly unconstitutional and the greatest threat to our lives, liberties, and well being.
The greatest source of success, prosperity, and wealth is not gov’t coercion, but the voluntary cooperation between buyers and sellers in the marketplace free from gov’t interference - the Free Market Economy which is individual freedom in action. As FDR did then, so now the Left hates individual freedom and the free market because the more freedom, the less gov’t and the Left as did FDR, LOVES gov’t.
Time to undo what FDR and his ilk - the Left - has done. Time to trust in God once again and restore America’s Free Constitutional Republic and eliminate the massive unconstitutional portion of the federal gov’t and LET FREEDOM REIGN.
that traitors Administration was filled with Soviet Spies from top to brim.
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