For those who want to return to the "good ole days"...

For those who want to return to the "good ole days", consider these cleverly delivered yet tyrannically intended words taken from a 1941 speech by Franklin Roosevelt...

"A free nation has the right to expect full cooperation from all groups.... The best way of dealing with the few slackers or trouble makers in our midst is, first, to shame them by patriotic example, and, if that fails, to use the sovereignty of government to save government."

... Spoken by the same president who signed and issued Executive Order 9066 in 1942 to "forcefully" intern Japanese-Americans, yet (to footnote) not so much for German or Italian Americans.

Oddly and perversely, Roosevelt has been revered, and more so of late by those intending to expand Socialism. Although to be fair, the same sort of "patriotic" sentiment and intent "to shame" have been well embraced and promulgated by those (of both parties) desiring to expand Militarism abroad.

Is the American "Neo-Roman" Empire the Land of the Free and Home of the Brave? Was it ever? This poet says "No!" and "No!" again. It is a home of the ideological timid hiding behind historical myths and patriotic tall-tales, and the land of the well-propagandized herd manipulatively prodded and conveniently corralled.

Come let us Reason (Is 1:18). Peace is always a Choice (Mt 5:9).
Study, Ponder, Labor, till last Breath (2 Tm 2:15 / Cl 3:23).