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To: koan who wrote (1080188)	7/26/2018 12:37:06 PM
From: James Seagrove	1 Recommendation Recommended By TideGlider Respond to of 1573281

FDR?

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7/26/2018 1:17:35 PM

From: James Seagrove

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Cortex?

“I am worried about Alexandra Ocasio-Cortex and the far left going too far. I think my position right now is right between Bernie and Hillary. I think most liberals probably are in that place.”

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To: koan who wrote (1080188)	8/20/2018 7:37:27 PM
From: FJB	1 Recommendation Recommended By locogringo Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1573281

David Hogg to ‘Old’ Nancy Pelosi: ‘Move the Fk off the Plate and Let Us Take Control’ Activist David Hogg is talks of his generation of gun controllers then thinks of Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and says, “Move the fk off the plate and let us take control.” NYMag indicates Hogg is wearied by the “old” Democrats who keep hanging onto their offices. He mentioned Pelosi in particular, and said pointedly, “Nancy Pelosi is old.” Hogg often employs the word “narcissistic” to describe himself. He and fellow student gun control activists just wrapped up their summer bus tour, which focused on registering new gun control voters and pressuring Congress to pass more gun laws. While many students rode on the bus, NYMag explained that Hogg often rode separate: “Hogg, in fact, was frequently not on the bus but traveling separately in a black SUV accompanied by bodyguards. If he were a politician, one of the staffers told me, the intensity of interest in him would merit 24-hour Secret Service surveillance.” cont...

To: koan who wrote (1080188)	9/17/2018 12:03:35 AM
From: James Seagrove	Respond to of 1573281

Three New Deals: Why The Nazis And Fascists Loved FDR The broad-ranging powers granted to Roosevelt by Congress, before that body went into recess, were unprecedented in times of peace. Through this "delegation of powers," Congress had, in effect, temporarily done away with itself as the legislative branch of government. The only remaining check on the executive was the Supreme Court. In Germany, a similar process allowed Hitler to assume legislative power after the Reichstag burned down in a suspected case of arson on February 28, 1933. (p. 18). While Hitler's and Roosevelt's nearly simultaneous ascension to power highlighted fundamental differences … contemporary observers noted that they shared an extraordinary ability to touch the soul of the people. Their speeches were personal, almost intimate. Both in their own way gave their audiences the impression that they were addressing not the crowd, but each listener as an individual. (p. 54) "The public," he [Johnson] added, "simply cannot tolerate non-compliance with their plan." In a fine example of doublespeak, the argument maintained that cooperation with the president was completely voluntary but that exceptions would not be tolerated because the will of the people was behind FDR. As one historian [Andrew Wolvin] put it, the Blue Eagle campaign was "based on voluntary cooperation, but those who did not comply were to be forced into participation." (p. 92) The TVA was the concrete-and-steel realization of the regulatory authority at the heart of the New Deal. In this sense, the massive dams in the Tennessee Valley were monuments to the New Deal, just as the New Cities in the Pontine Marshes were monuments to Fascism … But beyond that, TVA propaganda was also directed against an internal enemy: the capitalist excesses that had led to the Depression… (pp. 160, 162) But willingly or unwillingly, Flynn argued,the New Deal had put itself into the position of needing a state of permanent crisis or, indeed, permanent war to justify its social interventions. "It is born in crisis, lives on crises, and cannot survive the era of crisis…. Hitler's story is the same." … Flynn's prognosis for the regime of his enemy Roosevelt sounds more apt today than when he made it in 1944... "We must have enemies," he wrote in As We Go Marching. "They will become an economic necessity for us." (pp. 186, 191)