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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
