Biden will invoke Franklin Roosevelt’s address to the 77th Congress, according to a copy of the speech that was visible in a photo his office published on X
Really just sounds like he took Roosevelt’s speech and just gutted it.
Roosevelts 4 Freedoms: Speech and expression, worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear.
Bidens: Freedom to vote and have your vote counted, freedom of choice, freedom to have a fair shot, and freedoms from fear.
Freedom of worship -> freedom of choice is fine, they’re not really equivalent and the latter is way more relevant atm.
Fear remains unchanged.
Speech and expression -> vote and have your vote counted also kind of not equivalent, but if we’re generous and assume he means having actual democratic power thats fine. Don’t necessarily believe thats what he’s going for but there will be a lot more to the speech I imagine.
Freedom from want -> Freedom to have a fair shot is really pathetic. This is so watered down. From you have the right to abundance in your life to you have the right to get rolled over by a corporation and live in servitude as long as you’re equally as likely to get fucked as your peers.
Also the fact that this article mentions him linking the conflict in Ukraine to freedom but not Palestine is horrific.
A couple months ago they were really floating “Bidenomics” and stealing Reagan’s shit like trump does.
Even if theyre empty words, copying FDR is better than Reagan.
Still ironic what lead to the end of his first primary in 88 was plagiarism, and 36 years later he’s in another primary, still ripping off other people’s speeches.
Two generations ago this wasn’t acceptable. But Biden hung around long enough for our standards to get this low.
Really just sounds like he took Roosevelt’s speech and just gutted it. Roosevelts 4 Freedoms: Speech and expression, worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear. Bidens: Freedom to vote and have your vote counted, freedom of choice, freedom to have a fair shot, and freedoms from fear.
Freedom of worship -> freedom of choice is fine, they’re not really equivalent and the latter is way more relevant atm.
Fear remains unchanged.
Speech and expression -> vote and have your vote counted also kind of not equivalent, but if we’re generous and assume he means having actual democratic power thats fine. Don’t necessarily believe thats what he’s going for but there will be a lot more to the speech I imagine.
Freedom from want -> Freedom to have a fair shot is really pathetic. This is so watered down. From you have the right to abundance in your life to you have the right to get rolled over by a corporation and live in servitude as long as you’re equally as likely to get fucked as your peers.
Also the fact that this article mentions him linking the conflict in Ukraine to freedom but not Palestine is horrific.
Take what progress we can get…
A couple months ago they were really floating “Bidenomics” and stealing Reagan’s shit like trump does.
Even if theyre empty words, copying FDR is better than Reagan.
Still ironic what lead to the end of his first primary in 88 was plagiarism, and 36 years later he’s in another primary, still ripping off other people’s speeches.
Two generations ago this wasn’t acceptable. But Biden hung around long enough for our standards to get this low.