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Destiny is still Ours
Author: Raine
Date: 07/20/2023 12:36:25
Let's talk about the namesake of our blog this morning: The Four Freedoms. It was at the end of a speech delivered to Congress by President Franklin Roosevelt on January 6, 1941.
His address was meant to be a case for American involvement in the war raging across Europe, specifically, by Hitler and the Nazis. Fast forward to the politics of today, particularly the performative antics of the GOP pretending to be politic. All of the freedoms espoused by FDR are directly under attack from within our borders by one political party. EVERY. SINGLE. ONE.
They are banning books. They attack worship that they don't like. They want to eliminate all social programs that allow people to eat, feel relief and survive. They want to deprive people of debt relief. They are purposefully making marginalized people live in fear. Women, LGBTQ+ people, People of Colour, and Immigrants are just the ones I can think of off the top of my head. They attack our military when it doesn't suit their worldview. The are anti-science. For them, Woke is white male history. It's another way of them telling you they are fascists.
It's easy to mock them, but they really are the antithesis of everything this American experiment is supposed to be. To the best of my knowledge, this is the first time it has taken such root in mainstream American culture - at the very least it is in my lifetime.
That said, It's not too late until it is too late. I choose to reject evil, however I can. I walked away from a deeply toxic father and, yes, it did affect me in ways that I can never express fully. It was painful but I would do it again, in the name of the greater good.
"To that new order we oppose the greater conception--the moral order. A good society is able to face schemes of world domination and foreign revolutions alike without fear.
Since the beginning of our American history, we have been engaged in change -- in a perpetual peaceful revolution -- a revolution which goes on steadily, quietly adjusting itself to changing conditions--without the concentration camp or the quick-lime in the ditch. The world order which we seek is the cooperation of free countries, working together in a friendly, civilized society.
This nation has placed its destiny in the hands and heads and hearts of its millions of free men and women; and its faith in freedom under the guidance of God. Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere. Our support goes to those who struggle to gain those rights or keep them. Our strength is our unity of purpose. To that high concept there can be no end save victory."
This Destiny still has a place if we want it enough.
& 
Raine
If the Congress maintains these principles, the voters, putting patriotism ahead of pocketbooks, will give you their applause.
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.
His address was meant to be a case for American involvement in the war raging across Europe, specifically, by Hitler and the Nazis.
A great number of Americans remained committed to isolationism and the belief that the United States should continue to stay out of the war, but President Roosevelt understood Britain's need for American support and attempted to convince the American people of the gravity of the situation.
In his Annual Message to Congress (State of the Union Address) on January 6, 1941, Franklin Roosevelt presented his reasons for American involvement, making the case for continued aid to Great Britain and greater production of war industries at home. In helping Britain, President Roosevelt stated, the United States was fighting for the universal freedoms that all people possessed.
As America entered the war these "four freedoms" - the freedom of speech, the freedom of worship, the freedom from want, and the freedom from fear - symbolized America's war aims and gave hope in the following years to a war-wearied people because they knew they were fighting for freedom.
They are banning books. They attack worship that they don't like. They want to eliminate all social programs that allow people to eat, feel relief and survive. They want to deprive people of debt relief. They are purposefully making marginalized people live in fear. Women, LGBTQ+ people, People of Colour, and Immigrants are just the ones I can think of off the top of my head. They attack our military when it doesn't suit their worldview. The are anti-science. For them, Woke is white male history. It's another way of them telling you they are fascists.
It's easy to mock them, but they really are the antithesis of everything this American experiment is supposed to be. To the best of my knowledge, this is the first time it has taken such root in mainstream American culture - at the very least it is in my lifetime.
That said, It's not too late until it is too late. I choose to reject evil, however I can. I walked away from a deeply toxic father and, yes, it did affect me in ways that I can never express fully. It was painful but I would do it again, in the name of the greater good.
"To that new order we oppose the greater conception--the moral order. A good society is able to face schemes of world domination and foreign revolutions alike without fear.
Since the beginning of our American history, we have been engaged in change -- in a perpetual peaceful revolution -- a revolution which goes on steadily, quietly adjusting itself to changing conditions--without the concentration camp or the quick-lime in the ditch. The world order which we seek is the cooperation of free countries, working together in a friendly, civilized society.
This nation has placed its destiny in the hands and heads and hearts of its millions of free men and women; and its faith in freedom under the guidance of God. Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere. Our support goes to those who struggle to gain those rights or keep them. Our strength is our unity of purpose. To that high concept there can be no end save victory."
This Destiny still has a place if we want it enough.
& Raine
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Comment by 
Raine on 07/20/2023 15:12:14
Raine on 07/20/2023 15:12:14
Goldman has to remind Jim Jordan to swear in the witnesses pic.twitter.com/mqGvtMFKVK
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 20, 2023
Comment by Raine on 07/20/2023 15:16:05
This hearing TODAY, is bonkers.
Raine on 07/20/2023 15:16:05
Quote by Raine:Goldman has to remind Jim Jordan to swear in the witnesses pic.twitter.com/mqGvtMFKVK
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 20, 2023
Comment by Will_in_Ca on 07/20/2023 16:21:47
Good morning bloggers!!!
I fear that the GOP has morphed into the Party from George Orwell's 1984. They seek power for the sake of power.
I fear that the GOP has morphed into the Party from George Orwell's 1984. They seek power for the sake of power.
Comment by Raine on 07/20/2023 16:36:14
Raine on 07/20/2023 16:36:14
Just a reminder that RFKjr is under oath:
DWS: You compared COVID public health policies to barbaric tactics of Nazi Germany saying the Jewish people of Nazi Germany had more freedom than Americans..
— Acyn (@Acyn) July 20, 2023
RFK Jr: What you are saying is a lie pic.twitter.com/g4lviOCLJO
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz is correct. RFK Jr. compared COVID public health data policies to Nazi concentration camp experiments “on Gypsies and Jews.” pic.twitter.com/ZK2yLTy1dV https://t.co/4vj74fIC9r
— PatriotTakes (@patriottakes) July 20, 2023
Comment by Raine on 07/20/2023 16:40:20
Raine on 07/20/2023 16:40:20
Debbie Wasserman Schultz Has Just Put a Motion Forward to Censor Robert F. Kennedy Jr from Further Testimony
— Chief Nerd (@TheChiefNerd) July 20, 2023
This is wild... pic.twitter.com/buNN8NeKCj
Comment by 
TriSec on 07/20/2023 23:00:09
TriSec on 07/20/2023 23:00:09
Oh, Raine. Dear, sweet Raine.
I have not had civil words with Brother TriSec in many a year now.
He is a fascist.
We trade polite texts every now and again, primarily for the sake of our 90-year-old father, who is not long for this Earth. (He's in fine health for his age, but let's be real about this.)
One day, Pops will be dead - we'll take care of what we need to do, and then I will likely never speak to my brother again.
I have not had civil words with Brother TriSec in many a year now.
He is a fascist.
We trade polite texts every now and again, primarily for the sake of our 90-year-old father, who is not long for this Earth. (He's in fine health for his age, but let's be real about this.)
One day, Pops will be dead - we'll take care of what we need to do, and then I will likely never speak to my brother again.
Comment by Raine on 07/21/2023 00:18:25
Are you ok with this?
I ask with no judgment.
I had to be ok with the last time I spoke with my father. I called him after a few years of not talking to him. It was his birthday, July 4th. Asked him how he was,
He told me he had a heart attack in February. I freaked out a bit and asked why I wasn't told. HE said some things about he didn't want anyone to know...
I got upset and mentioned that I was his daughter. That didn't seem to matter.
And then I realized, I didn't want him to be more upset, plus, he didn't want to tell me. I told him I had to hang up. Last time I spoke with him.
A Small backstory: My father hung a Nazi (iron cross adjacent) flag in our living room (with bullet holes) and told me that I needed to understand history. I was 16.
I have a copy of a book that he owned. It's an English version of Mein Kampf. He never knew I found it,
He used the N-word regularly as I was growing up. He worked for the NYS Department of Corrections and he hated the people he was supposed to help in correction.
He tried to kill my mother. It involved a rifle. She tried to protect herself with a knife, I remember grabbing that knife with my drawing hand, praying she would let go. She did.
I threw the knife into the hall closet. I never found it again.
When I tried to call 911 that night, the phone was turned off, I could make no outgoing calls. It was by the grace of god that incoming calls could happen. I had my mother's friend call the NYS police. They arrived. They had each other arrested.
He wanted to have me arrested for protecting her and he claimed that I attacked him
If I was arrested, I would have lost my scholarship to college. The NYS trooper made sure that didn't happen. I watched as my parents were driven away in police vehicles. I called a friend to see if they would give me a place to stay for the night. He took me to his house and his parents cared for me.
A judge ruled in my father's favor the next day. My Mother and I had to find a place to stay. My sisters were visiting family members on Long Island. It was only after she could secure a rental that they could come home. I was without a home for about a month. Even then, it was a place to stay until I went to college a few weeks after that.
My father was a bad man that many people loved. That includes my mother. and I was a central part in pushing her to leave him.
It's hard to tell this story, and I still can't in more public circles. I rejected him after I finally realized that he rejected me.
He's dead now. The pain he caused still hurts.
I tried to live knowing that he was my father, but when a father rejects you for not being like him, that is a heavy load.
I hate what is happening in this country. I feel like I have lived it and am experiencing it again on a larger scale.
Raine on 07/21/2023 00:18:25
Quote by TriSec:
Oh, Raine. Dear, sweet Raine.
I have not had civil words with Brother TriSec in many a year now.
He is a fascist.
We trade polite texts every now and again, primarily for the sake of our 90-year-old father, who is not long for this Earth. (He's in fine health for his age, but let's be real about this.)
One day, Pops will be dead - we'll take care of what we need to do, and then I will likely never speak to my brother again.
I ask with no judgment.
I had to be ok with the last time I spoke with my father. I called him after a few years of not talking to him. It was his birthday, July 4th. Asked him how he was,
He told me he had a heart attack in February. I freaked out a bit and asked why I wasn't told. HE said some things about he didn't want anyone to know...
I got upset and mentioned that I was his daughter. That didn't seem to matter.
And then I realized, I didn't want him to be more upset, plus, he didn't want to tell me. I told him I had to hang up. Last time I spoke with him.
A Small backstory: My father hung a Nazi (iron cross adjacent) flag in our living room (with bullet holes) and told me that I needed to understand history. I was 16.
I have a copy of a book that he owned. It's an English version of Mein Kampf. He never knew I found it,
He used the N-word regularly as I was growing up. He worked for the NYS Department of Corrections and he hated the people he was supposed to help in correction.
He tried to kill my mother. It involved a rifle. She tried to protect herself with a knife, I remember grabbing that knife with my drawing hand, praying she would let go. She did.
I threw the knife into the hall closet. I never found it again.
When I tried to call 911 that night, the phone was turned off, I could make no outgoing calls. It was by the grace of god that incoming calls could happen. I had my mother's friend call the NYS police. They arrived. They had each other arrested.
He wanted to have me arrested for protecting her and he claimed that I attacked him
If I was arrested, I would have lost my scholarship to college. The NYS trooper made sure that didn't happen. I watched as my parents were driven away in police vehicles. I called a friend to see if they would give me a place to stay for the night. He took me to his house and his parents cared for me.
A judge ruled in my father's favor the next day. My Mother and I had to find a place to stay. My sisters were visiting family members on Long Island. It was only after she could secure a rental that they could come home. I was without a home for about a month. Even then, it was a place to stay until I went to college a few weeks after that.
My father was a bad man that many people loved. That includes my mother. and I was a central part in pushing her to leave him.
It's hard to tell this story, and I still can't in more public circles. I rejected him after I finally realized that he rejected me.
He's dead now. The pain he caused still hurts.
I tried to live knowing that he was my father, but when a father rejects you for not being like him, that is a heavy load.
I hate what is happening in this country. I feel like I have lived it and am experiencing it again on a larger scale.