Franklin D. Roosevelt Letter to the Democratic Convention

[Daryl Hunt]

This letter was never sent but it was drafted and handed over to a Federal Judge to be delivered in need be. FDR almost didn't run for reelection in 1940.

This is a time where the Capitalists were all Democrats. Due to FDR abandoning his VP for another, the Capitalists changed parties to the Republican Party.

Here is that unpublished letter.

Franklin D. Roosevelt Letter to the Democratic Convention

July 18, 1940

Members of the Convention:

In the century in which we live, the Democratic Party has received the support of the electorate only when the party, with absolute clarity, has been the champion of progressive and liberal policies and principles of government.

The party has failed consistently when through political trading and chicanery it has fallen into the control of those interests, personal and financial, which think in terms of dollars instead of in terms of human values.

The Republican Party has made its nominations this year at the dictation of those who, we all know, always place money ahead of human progress.

Convention, as appears clear from the events of today, is divided on this fundamental issue. Until the Democratic Party through this convention makes overwhelmingly clear its stand in favor of social progress and liberalism, and shakes off all the shackles of control fastened upon it by the forces of conservatism, reaction, and appeasement, it will not continue its march of victory.

It is without question that certain political influences pledged to reaction in domestic affairs and to appeasement in foreign affairs have been busily engaged behind the scenes in the promotion of discord since this Convention convened.

Under these circumstances, I cannot, in all honor, and will not, merely for political expediency, go along with the cheap bargaining and political maneuvering which have brought about party dissension in this convention.

It is best not to straddle ideals.

It is best for America to have the fight out here and now.

I wish to give the Democratic Party the opportunity to make its historic decision clearly and without equivocation. The party must go wholly one way or wholly the other. It cannot face in both directions at the same time.

By declining the honor of the nomination for the presidency, I can restore that opportunity to the convention. I so do.

 

[gipper]

Yeah just saw this on Jimmy Dore today.

Thing is the D Party is not a progressive party. Hasn’t been in a long time. What the party did to Bernie is a good recent proof they aren’t progressive.

It is a corporatist party just like the stinking R party, yet Americans fight amongst themselves as if there is a difference.

 

[Pogo]

This letter was never sent but it was drafted and handed over to a Federal Judge to be delivered in need be. FDR almost didn't run for reelection in 1940.

This is a time where the Capitalists were all Democrats. Due to FDR abandoning his VP for another, the Capitalists changed parties to the Republican Party.

Here is that unpublished letter.

Franklin D. Roosevelt Letter to the Democratic Convention

July 18, 1940

Members of the Convention:

In the century in which we live, the Democratic Party has received the support of the electorate only when the party, with absolute clarity, has been the champion of progressive and liberal policies and principles of government.

The party has failed consistently when through political trading and chicanery it has fallen into the control of those interests, personal and financial, which think in terms of dollars instead of in terms of human values.

The Republican Party has made its nominations this year at the dictation of those who, we all know, always place money ahead of human progress.

Convention, as appears clear from the events of today, is divided on this fundamental issue. Until the Democratic Party through this convention makes overwhelmingly clear its stand in favor of social progress and liberalism, and shakes off all the shackles of control fastened upon it by the forces of conservatism, reaction, and appeasement, it will not continue its march of victory.

It is without question that certain political influences pledged to reaction in domestic affairs and to appeasement in foreign affairs have been busily engaged behind the scenes in the promotion of discord since this Convention convened.

Under these circumstances, I cannot, in all honor, and will not, merely for political expediency, go along with the cheap bargaining and political maneuvering which have brought about party dissension in this convention.

It is best not to straddle ideals.

It is best for America to have the fight out here and now.

I wish to give the Democratic Party the opportunity to make its historic decision clearly and without equivocation. The party must go wholly one way or wholly the other. It cannot face in both directions at the same time.

By declining the honor of the nomination for the presidency, I can restore that opportunity to the convention. I so do.

FDR had made a major change in party direction four years earlier when, at the height of his influence, he got the party to change its nomination process from a 2/3 majority to a simple 50%-plus-one vote, thereby undercutting the stranglehold the Southern conservatives had had up to then, permitting them to hold the process hostage like they did in 1924.

That was the first crack in the "Solid South". WW2 would put those machinations on hold until 1948 when Southerners walked out and ran their own Thurmond/Wright ticket, which was the second crack. That dam finally burst in 1964.

 

[Dekster]

Everybody thinks they are on the side of virtue and the other side is the land of greed and vice.

 

[Muhammed]

This letter was never sent but it was drafted and handed over to a Federal Judge to be delivered in need be. FDR almost didn't run for reelection in 1940.

This is a time where the Capitalists were all Democrats. Due to FDR abandoning his VP for another, the Capitalists changed parties to the Republican Party.

Here is that unpublished letter.

Franklin D. Roosevelt Letter to the Democratic Convention

July 18, 1940

Members of the Convention:

In the century in which we live, the Democratic Party has received the support of the electorate only when the party, with absolute clarity, has been the champion of progressive and liberal policies and principles of government.

The party has failed consistently when through political trading and chicanery it has fallen into the control of those interests, personal and financial, which think in terms of dollars instead of in terms of human values.

The Republican Party has made its nominations this year at the dictation of those who, we all know, always place money ahead of human progress.

Convention, as appears clear from the events of today, is divided on this fundamental issue. Until the Democratic Party through this convention makes overwhelmingly clear its stand in favor of social progress and liberalism, and shakes off all the shackles of control fastened upon it by the forces of conservatism, reaction, and appeasement, it will not continue its march of victory.

It is without question that certain political influences pledged to reaction in domestic affairs and to appeasement in foreign affairs have been busily engaged behind the scenes in the promotion of discord since this Convention convened.

Under these circumstances, I cannot, in all honor, and will not, merely for political expediency, go along with the cheap bargaining and political maneuvering which have brought about party dissension in this convention.

It is best not to straddle ideals.

It is best for America to have the fight out here and now.

I wish to give the Democratic Party the opportunity to make its historic decision clearly and without equivocation. The party must go wholly one way or wholly the other. It cannot face in both directions at the same time.

By declining the honor of the nomination for the presidency, I can restore that opportunity to the convention. I so do.

That letter could have prevented the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Americans.

FDR was one cruel and evil piece of shit.

 

[Daryl Hunt]

I think some missed the message. I was trying to figure out exactly when the parties switched poles. I finally found it. It was in 1940. In 1940, the Dems had most of the Capitalists and Conservatives. and the Republicans were the Progressives. Due to the roads taken starting in 1933, the Dems had no choice but to take a more social path. They didn't do it because they wanted to. They did it because their very lives, corporations and businesses dictated it. America was about a month away from no longer existing. Yes, America was 1 month away from an armed Revolution that would have torn this nation completely apart and the Rich would have been drug into the streets and all their wealth would have been forcefully redistributed to the hungry out of work masses. Anarchy.

The New Deal was still in affect in 1940 but the Capitalist Conservatives were fighting very hard to get it stopped since it was costing them a lot of money. Of course, they didn't think back 7 years where without it they would have drug into the streets in shame. I'll say it again, Capitalism without checks and balances means Anarchy sooner or later and the end of the nation. FDR and others like him put those checks and balances in places that prevented this from happening for a very long time. Unfortunatley, both parties have been disassembling those checks and balances for decades and we have been drifting back into what brought us the Great Depression in the first place which was Corporate Greed.

In 1940, the Democratic Party wasn't exactly liked. The Republican Party was like better being that it was made up of Progressives that listened to the People more. What FDR was telling the Democratic Party was, without him and people that backed him, the Democratic Party would lose by a land slide. He steered the Party back to the center left instead of the hard right it was taking. This is why there was little difference between Ike and Harry, one a Republican and the other a Democrat. Harry was a FDR supporter and Ike was an old style Republican. At that time, both parties tried to do what was best for the nation instead of what what best for the party.

Today, each party believes what is best for the Party IS what is best for the Nation. Trump is not the cause, he's the symptom.

 

[emilynghiem]

Yeah just saw this on Jimmy Dore today.

Thing is the D Party is not a progressive party. Hasn’t been in a long time. What the party did to Bernie is a good recent proof they aren’t progressive.

It is a corporatist party just like the stinking R party, yet Americans fight amongst themselves as if there is a difference.

Dear gipper another problem today
We don't have the compelling govt interest to depend on govt for social support as during the Depression and post-Depression.

So the same bill of goods promoted by the Democrats and Socialist agenda
cannot sell on those grounds, because people ARE able to set up their own means of support and welfare.

Even with Universal Care, the health care Cooperatives have found that nationalized plans are not necessary
to obtain top discounts on group rates or medicare pricing, but only 1500 per group is enough to be self-sustaining
and manage their own benefits at half the cost of for-profit insurance coverage with greater benefits and lower deductibles than govt.

So in order to sell the "necessity of going through govt" for "universal care and benefits"
the party has to create a "sense or fear" of scarcity or oppression where govt is needed to protect equal access.

Unfortunately, this lobbying has shifted control to the monied interests that can pay for candidates' campaigns to push this agenda
this way.

So it ends up taking resources AWAY from the very people the party claims to represent,
and pays for candidates like BETO and OBAMA to push party promises and propaganda
(that aren't even constitutional because they violate beliefs of others and discriminate by creed).

Especially when we have systems now that empower people to govern their own communities, programs and districts,
including their own health care with more cost effective and reliable service structures,
it becomes more compelling govt interest to support THOSE systems as protecting more of the people's rights
to both health care, and financial and legal rights to owning and choosing their own programs and terms of benefits.

Source: www.patientphysiciancooperatives.com

 

[Moonglow]

I think some missed the message. I was trying to figure out exactly when the parties switched poles. I finally found it. It was in 1940. In 1940, the Dems had most of the Capitalists and Conservatives. and the Republicans were the Progressives. Due to the roads taken starting in 1933, the Dems had no choice but to take a more social path. They didn't do it because they wanted to. They did it because their very lives, corporations and businesses dictated it. America was about a month away from no longer existing. Yes, America was 1 month away from an armed Revolution that would have torn this nation completely apart and the Rich would have been drug into the streets and all their wealth would have been forcefully redistributed to the hungry out of work masses. Anarchy.

The New Deal was still in affect in 1940 but the Capitalist Conservatives were fighting very hard to get it stopped since it was costing them a lot of money. Of course, they didn't think back 7 years where without it they would have drug into the streets in shame. I'll say it again, Capitalism without checks and balances means Anarchy sooner or later and the end of the nation. FDR and others like him put those checks and balances in places that prevented this from happening for a very long time. Unfortunatley, both parties have been disassembling those checks and balances for decades and we have been drifting back into what brought us the Great Depression in the first place which was Corporate Greed.

In 1940, the Democratic Party wasn't exactly liked. The Republican Party was like better being that it was made up of Progressives that listened to the People more. What FDR was telling the Democratic Party was, without him and people that backed him, the Democratic Party would lose by a land slide. He steered the Party back to the center left instead of the hard right it was taking. This is why there was little difference between Ike and Harry, one a Republican and the other a Democrat. Harry was a FDR supporter and Ike was an old style Republican. At that time, both parties tried to do what was best for the nation instead of what what best for the party.

Today, each party believes what is best for the Party IS what is best for the Nation. Trump is not the cause, he's the symptom.

The Republicans were the Progressives since Teddy Roosevelt.

 

[Daryl Hunt]

I think some missed the message. I was trying to figure out exactly when the parties switched poles. I finally found it. It was in 1940. In 1940, the Dems had most of the Capitalists and Conservatives. and the Republicans were the Progressives. Due to the roads taken starting in 1933, the Dems had no choice but to take a more social path. They didn't do it because they wanted to. They did it because their very lives, corporations and businesses dictated it. America was about a month away from no longer existing. Yes, America was 1 month away from an armed Revolution that would have torn this nation completely apart and the Rich would have been drug into the streets and all their wealth would have been forcefully redistributed to the hungry out of work masses. Anarchy.

The New Deal was still in affect in 1940 but the Capitalist Conservatives were fighting very hard to get it stopped since it was costing them a lot of money. Of course, they didn't think back 7 years where without it they would have drug into the streets in shame. I'll say it again, Capitalism without checks and balances means Anarchy sooner or later and the end of the nation. FDR and others like him put those checks and balances in places that prevented this from happening for a very long time. Unfortunatley, both parties have been disassembling those checks and balances for decades and we have been drifting back into what brought us the Great Depression in the first place which was Corporate Greed.

In 1940, the Democratic Party wasn't exactly liked. The Republican Party was like better being that it was made up of Progressives that listened to the People more. What FDR was telling the Democratic Party was, without him and people that backed him, the Democratic Party would lose by a land slide. He steered the Party back to the center left instead of the hard right it was taking. This is why there was little difference between Ike and Harry, one a Republican and the other a Democrat. Harry was a FDR supporter and Ike was an old style Republican. At that time, both parties tried to do what was best for the nation instead of what what best for the party.

Today, each party believes what is best for the Party IS what is best for the Nation. Trump is not the cause, he's the symptom.

The Republicans were the Progressives since Teddy Roosevelt.

The Republicans were founded in 1845 as Progressives.

 

[Moonglow]

I think some missed the message. I was trying to figure out exactly when the parties switched poles. I finally found it. It was in 1940. In 1940, the Dems had most of the Capitalists and Conservatives. and the Republicans were the Progressives. Due to the roads taken starting in 1933, the Dems had no choice but to take a more social path. They didn't do it because they wanted to. They did it because their very lives, corporations and businesses dictated it. America was about a month away from no longer existing. Yes, America was 1 month away from an armed Revolution that would have torn this nation completely apart and the Rich would have been drug into the streets and all their wealth would have been forcefully redistributed to the hungry out of work masses. Anarchy.

The New Deal was still in affect in 1940 but the Capitalist Conservatives were fighting very hard to get it stopped since it was costing them a lot of money. Of course, they didn't think back 7 years where without it they would have drug into the streets in shame. I'll say it again, Capitalism without checks and balances means Anarchy sooner or later and the end of the nation. FDR and others like him put those checks and balances in places that prevented this from happening for a very long time. Unfortunatley, both parties have been disassembling those checks and balances for decades and we have been drifting back into what brought us the Great Depression in the first place which was Corporate Greed.

In 1940, the Democratic Party wasn't exactly liked. The Republican Party was like better being that it was made up of Progressives that listened to the People more. What FDR was telling the Democratic Party was, without him and people that backed him, the Democratic Party would lose by a land slide. He steered the Party back to the center left instead of the hard right it was taking. This is why there was little difference between Ike and Harry, one a Republican and the other a Democrat. Harry was a FDR supporter and Ike was an old style Republican. At that time, both parties tried to do what was best for the nation instead of what what best for the party.

Today, each party believes what is best for the Party IS what is best for the Nation. Trump is not the cause, he's the symptom.

The Republicans were the Progressives since Teddy Roosevelt.

The Republicans were founded in 1845 as Progressives.

They were originally tagged the Democratic-Republicans when Thomas Jefferson ran for office to counter the Federalist and Whigs.