#1247 The Fight for the Four Freedoms (FDR vs. Libertarianism) (Throwback)
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 9 July 2024
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Summary
Original Air Date: 2/5/2019
Today we take a look at the history of FDR's "Four Freedoms" and "Economic Bill of Rights" that laid the groundwork for the fight for economic freedom for all that continues to this day.
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SHOW NOTES
Ch. 1: Harvey Kaye, "The Fight for the Four Freedoms" - Book TV - Air Date 5-11-14
Harvey Kaye examines the progressivism of the Roosevelt-era and argues that a reminder of the "four freedoms" could address today's political and social issues.
Ch. 2: What Ted Cruz Doesn't Get About 'Freedom' - @Thom_Hartmann - Air Date 7-21-16
Thom talks about Ted Cruz's speech at the Republican Convention and compares his definition of 'freedom' with the way it was described by Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Ch. 3: An Overdue Second Bill of Rights Part 1 - Progressive Faith Sermons w @RevDrRay - Air Date 10-7-18
F.D.R. recognized that the original bill of rights would not be enough to make all American’s truly free and proposed an economic bill of rights. Of the eight amendments he proposed in 1944, seven are still waiting to be implemented.
Ch. 4: Fighting for the Four Freedoms - @BillMoyersHQ And Company - Air Date 4-15-14
Historian Harvey J. Kaye talks about how FDR was able to mobilize Americans to create "the strongest and most prosperous country in human history."
Explaining that libertarian thinking doesn't incorporate the existence of economic coercion
Ch. 6: An Overdue Second Bill of Rights Part 2 - Progressive Faith Sermons w @RevDrRay - Air Date 10-7-18
Ch. 7: Bernie Sanders & FDR's Second Bill of Rights - Berniementum - Air Date 8-12-15
President FDR's Second Bill of Rights speech - January 11, 1944 Sen. Bernie Sanders speech at the National Press Club - Mar. 9, 2015 Music - "There is Romance" by Imcompetech
University of Wisconsin Professor Harvey J Kaye author of Fight for the Four Freedoms: What Made FDR and the Greatest Generation Truly Great, explains Ronald Reagan and the great pushback against a progressive America
Ch. 9: An Overdue Second Bill of Rights Part 3 - Progressive Faith Sermons w @RevDrRay - Air Date 10-7-18
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| 0:18.8 | Welcome to this throwback edition of the award-winning |
| 0:21.4 | Best of the Left Podcast, where we remember the past and choose to repeat it. |
| 0:25.2 | Today's episode was originally published in February 2019 and we're playing it today |
| 0:30.1 | while we're still in the fallout of the debate between Biden and Trump as the |
| 0:34.2 | Democratic Party struggles to come to terms with how to move forward. I made comments |
| 0:38.6 | in our recent episode that Biden stepping down from the race should be |
| 0:41.5 | recognized as the heroic choice it would be, |
| 0:44.7 | not unlike Washington refusing a third term or any senior citizen who recognizes the moment |
| 0:50.0 | when they need to hand over their car keys for the safety of themselves and others on the road. |
| 0:55.0 | But that's not what today's episode is about. |
| 0:56.7 | This is about the philosophy and rhetoric the left needs to embrace in order to recapture |
| 1:01.2 | the imaginations of Americans looking for a political vision to believe in. |
| 1:05.9 | Back in May, the New Republic wrote an article about Josh Shapiro, governor of Pennsylvania, |
| 1:10.8 | who had apparently come up with a new message that was catching fire |
| 1:13.7 | and was being emulated by other Democrats. In short, he'd realized that the right had been |
| 1:18.8 | dominating the framing of freedom for far too long because there's also a left-wing vision of freedom that |
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