#1247 The Fight for the Four Freedoms (Repost)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 31 December 2019
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
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
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. 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
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.
VOICEMAILS
Ch. 10: Sanders rant on his supporters hatred of female politicians - Jason from Chicago
FINAL COMMENTS
Ch. 11: Final comments in which I resolve the dispute over whether Bernie Sanders supporters are sexist or not
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- Voicemail Music: Low Key Lost Feeling Electro by Alex Stinnent
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to this episode of the award-winning Beth DeVolef podcast in which we shall learn |
| 0:07.6 | about the history of FDR's four freedoms and economic bill of rights that laid the groundwork |
| 0:13.5 | for the fight for economic freedom for all that continues to this day. Clips Today come from |
| 0:19.0 | Book TV, the Tom Hartman program, Moyers and Company, the majority report, and a progressive |
| 0:24.8 | faith sermon from my friend in yours, Dr. Roger A. I wrote the fight for the four freedoms, |
| 0:36.2 | not only as a historian, I also wrote it as an historical advocate. There are those who think we make |
| 0:43.1 | too much of the greatest generation and its greatest leader. I think we make too little of them. |
| 0:50.4 | In short, to give you a sense of what this will be about, I think we are failing to remember |
| 0:55.5 | what made FDR in the greatest generation truly great. And in failing to remember that, we are not |
| 1:01.2 | just failing them, we are failing ourselves. It's that argument, that story, that challenge, |
| 1:08.4 | which I now offer to you. We need to remember. We need to remember what conservatives have never |
| 1:17.2 | wanted us to remember and what liberals have all too often forgotten. We need to remember what |
| 1:23.2 | we've been trying so hard to remember. Now, especially after more than 30 years of subordinating |
| 1:30.0 | the public good to corporate priorities and private greed, of subjecting ourselves to widening |
| 1:35.5 | inequalities and intensifying insecurities, of allowing our rights to be threatened, and of denying |
| 1:43.7 | our own democratic impulses and yearnings. We need to remember who we are. We need to remember that |
| 1:51.2 | we are the children and grandchildren of the men and women who rescued the United States from |
| 1:55.5 | economic destruction and the Great Depression, and defended it against fascism and imperialism |
| 2:00.4 | in the Second World War. We need to remember that we are the children and grandchildren of the men |
| 2:05.2 | and women who not only saved the nation from economic ruin and political oblivion, but also |
| 2:10.4 | turned it into the strongest and most prosperous country on earth. And most of all, we need to remember |
| 2:16.8 | that we are the children and grandchildren of the men and women who accomplished all of that |
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