Above: Congresswoman Rashid Tlaib (D-Mich.) once said of Donald Trump, "We're going to impeach the motherfu&ker," and then refused to apologize. Because of that, she represent's FDR's "Freedom of Expression." Public domain photo, courtesy of Wikipedia.
Freedom of Religion -
Above: Congresswoman Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), is one of only two Muslim women to serve in Congress. For that, she represents FDR's "Freedom of Religion." Public domain photo, courtesy of Wikipedia.
Freedom from Want -
Above: Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) represents FDR's "Freedom from Want" because no member of Congress understands and highlights the struggles of the working class and poor better than she does. Public domain photo, courtesy of Wikipedia.
Freedom from Fear -
Above: Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) handles the death threats she receives with courage, saying: "Yes, I have experienced my share of death threats. I see it as par for the course, and consequential to the ways in which I legislate and govern, which many consider to be disruptive. When you have an administration that is fanning the flames of misogyny and xenophobia and white supremacy, someone like me---who looks like me, who leads like me, who talks like me--my very existence is the resistance. There are people that are offended just that I show up. Just that I exist." Pressley is also opposed to prioritizing military adventures over domestic needs (which gets to the heart of Roosevelt's Four Freedoms). For all of the above, Pressley is the embodiment of FDR's "Freedom from Fear." Public domain photo, courtesy of Wikipedia.
Above: A WPA poster of FDR's Four Freedoms, 1941. Image courtesy of the Library of Congress.
The Four Freedoms Speech
On January 6, 1941, President Franklin Roosevelt said:
"In the future days, which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms.
The first is freedom of speech and expression--everywhere in the world.
The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way--everywhere in the world.
The third is freedom from want--which, translated into world terms, means economic understandings which will secure to every nation a healthy peacetime life for its inhabitants--everywhere in the world.
The fourth is freedom from fear--which, translated into world terms, means a world-wide reduction of armaments to such a point and in such a thorough fashion that no nation will be in a position to commit an act of physical aggression against any neighbor--anywhere in the world.
That is no vision of a distant millennium. It is a definite basis for a kind of world attainable in our own time and generation. That kind of world is the very antithesis of the so-called new order of tyranny which the dictators seek to create with the crash of a bomb."
The progressive Squad of Four vs. the lip-service, center-right, and Republican-appeasing Pelosi Democrats
Nancy Pelosi has never liked the Squad of Four, and now she's really pissed, because AOC's spokesman recently said that the "greatest threat to mankind" is the "cowardice of the Democratic Party."
But here's the deal: He's right. It's the cowardice of the modern Democratic Party that has delivered us into the hands of Trump and his empathy-free Fox News base. By always compromising and caving to Republicans, and by routinely squashing bold ideas for the common good, they have demoralized much of the electorate and have facilitated growing social unrest. And that social unrest has brought us the demagogue Trump.
And if the Pelosi Democrats get their way, Joe Biden will win the Democratic nomination for president. And if Lyin' J'Biden wins the Oval Office, his center-right policies will cause even more social unrest (Biden has backed tax cuts for the rich; job outsourcing; debt-relief restrictions on the middle-class & poor; bailouts for law-breaking financial institutions; and cuts to Social Security & Medicare).
The progressive Squad of Four should fight the Pelosi Democrats every chance they get.
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