There are so many problems it can seem overwhelming; we’re always playing whack-a-mole trying to deal with whatever crisis stands in front of us at the moment. 1/6
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But there aren’t a lot of problems so much is there is ONE problem - they all stem from the same source - and it is that one problem we need to address head on. 2/6
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Over 40 years ago this country stopped investing in its people. Our public treasury became over time a piggy bank for oligarchic swindlers and thieves. 3/6

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We won’t be able to fix all this overnight, in fact it will take a generation. But we can get started. We can initiate a season of repair. 4/6
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In the words of Franklin Roosevelt, “It is time for the country to become fairly radical for a generation.” It will not be the incrementalists who save us. It will be we ourselves, repudiating the same “economic royalists” that have plagued this country over and over again throughout our history . 5/6
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Other generations did it, and so can we. 6/6 billmoyers.com/story/year-fd…

The Year FDR Sought to Make America 'Fairly Radical' – BillMoyers.com

Accepting the Democratic nomination for a second presidential term 80 years ago this summer in Philadelphia, President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered the most radical speech ever given by an...

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Replying to @marwilliamson
How do you actually rid the system of that kind of corruption though? It feels like we need a new system entirely and not the ones we've already seen fail like communism or fascism.