Nothing has changed in the decades since FDR’s times. Just listen to the current crop of right-wing brigands that represent the Republican Party and their Teabag Brigade Masters.

Just listen to their anti-women, anti-environment, anti-union, anti-safety net, anti-minorities, and anti American rhetoric. Just open your ears to their support for flat tax idiocy. Just listen to their rejection of the reality of global warming. Just listen to their flat-earth thinking. From Bachmann with her mindless diatribes, to Citizen Cain’s confusion on everything, to Romney’s flip-flops on every single issue, to the religious fanaticism of Santorum, the craziness of Paul, the hypocritical cynicism of Gingrich, and not left out, the lunacy of Perry, the GOP has rejected almost all of the positions they once stood for and are ready to thrust us pack to not only Jim Crow, but maybe even to the Articles of Confederation. They are the do-nothing party of hatred, the poor house, the sweat shop, the pollution of the past, and the triumph of the inter-locking directorate, the monopoly, the trusts and rule of the few over the many.

FDR summed it correctly in this passage from his speech at Madison Square Garden in October of 1936.
“They had begun to consider the Government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs. We know now that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob.
Never before in all our history have these forces been so united against one candidate as they stand today. They are unanimous in their hate for me–and I welcome their hatred.
I should like to have it said of my first Administration that in it the forces of selfishness and of lust for power met their match. I should like to have it said of my second Administration that in it these forces met their master.”

What was the message then and now? Should we turn our country over to these modern day flat-earth/flat-tax zealots? Should we reverse the clock back to not before the Great Society, or the New Deal, or the Progressive Era or back to the Articles of Confederation? Should we listen to Romney, who tells the distressed home owner, and I paraphrase, “there is no help for you, so let the market forces take your home and then you can rent it back!” Should we listen to Citizen Cain who wants to lower corporate taxes from 39% to 9% and the top bracket for 375,000 people (the 1%) who earn more than $1 million to 9%? But he is willing to add a regressive 9% to everyone including the working poor!
Governments can err, presidents do make mistakes, but the immortal Dante tells us that Divine justice weighs the sins of the cold-blooded and the sins of the warm-hearted on different scales.
Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.
There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.
Nothing has changed in the decades since FDR’s times. Just listen to the current crop of right-wing brigands that represent the Republican Party and their Teabag Brigade Masters.

Just listen to their anti-women, anti-environment, anti-union, anti-safety net, anti-minorities, and anti American rhetoric. Just open your ears to their support for flat tax idiocy. Just listen to their rejection of the reality of global warming. Just listen to their flat-earth thinking. From Bachmann with her mindless diatribes, to Citizen Cain’s confusion on everything, to Romney’s flip-flops on every single issue, to the religious fanaticism of Santorum, the craziness of Paul, the hypocritical cynicism of Gingrich, and not to be left out, the lunacy of Perry, the GOP has rejected almost all of the positions they once stood for and are ready to thrust us pack to not only Jim Crow, but maybe even to the Articles of Confederation. They are the do-nothing party of hatred, the poor house, the sweat shop, the pollution of the past, and the triumph of the inter-locking directorate, the monopoly, the trusts and rule of the few over the many. Whatever progressives they had from the party of Lincoln, which included folks like TR, Holmes, Dewey, Rockefeller, Javits and a number of others has long disappeared into the rebirth of the new Know-Nothings from the middle of the 19th Century.

FDR summed it correctly in this passage from his speech at Madison Square Garden in October of 1936.

“They had begun to consider the Government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs. We know now that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob.

Never before in all our history have these forces been so united against one candidate as they stand today. They are unanimous in their hate for me–and I welcome their hatred.

I should like to have it said of my first Administration that in it the forces of selfishness and of lust for power met their match. I should like to have it said of my second Administration that in it these forces met their master.”

What was the message then and now? Should we turn our country over to these modern day flat-earth/flat-tax zealots? Should we reverse the clock back to not before the Great Society, or the New Deal, or the Progressive Era or back to the Articles of Confederation? Should we listen to Romney, who tells the distressed home owner, and I paraphrase, “there is no help for you, so let the market forces take your home and then you can rent it back!” Should we listen to Citizen Cain who wants to lower corporate taxes from 39% to 9% and the top bracket for 375,000 people (the 1%) who earn more than $1 million to 9%? But he is willing to add a regressive 9% to everyone including the working poor!

FDR said: “Governments can err, presidents do make mistakes, but the immortal Dante tells us that Divine justice weighs the sins of the cold-blooded and the sins of the warm-hearted on different scales.

Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.

There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.”

There is no class warfare in those 1936 campaign remarks, just the truth. The class warfare started with the Reagan Years, his alliance with the old Dixiecrats of the South and the lowering of Federal taxes to two brackets 28 and 15%.