Biden should welcome their hatred
Less than a week away and the debate between Biden and Trump will occur. Given Biden’s State of the Union Address, I do not envision he will be giving much room to trump. I do believe trump’s main weaponry will be interrupting Biden’s speech so as to confuse the issues amongst people. There is no real way to control trump so as to conduct a civil exchange.
Economist Robert Reich has a pretty good idea of what to do. I hope Biden’s speechwriters prepare him.
Biden should welcome their “hatred,”
by Robert Reich
Substack
Advice for Joe in his first debate with the convicted felon — one week from tonight.
I have only one morsel of advice to Joe Biden as he prepares for his first debate with Trump, one week from tonight: Channel Franklin D. Roosevelt by excoriating corporate America and explaining that Trump is a flack for the moneyed interests.
Eighty-eight years ago this month, on June 27, 1936, Roosevelt delivered his speech accepting the Democratic nomination for president. That happens to be the same day Joe Biden will be debating Donald Trump.
FDR’s speech is as relevant today as it was then. We’re at a time like the 1930s, when the super-wealthy and big corporations were seeking to oust an incumbent Democrat who was working for the people rather than for them.
On June 27, 1936, FDR dubbed the moneyed interests “economic royalists” who “governed without the consent of the governed” and “put the average man’s property and the average man’s life in pawn to the mercenaries of dynastic power.”
They used their economic power, FDR charged, to create “a new despotism and wrapped it in the robes of legal sanction … The hours men and women worked, the wages they received, the conditions of their labor — these had passed beyond the control of the people, and were imposed by this new industrial dictatorship.”
He warned against giving these economic royalists the political power they craved.
“If the average citizen is guaranteed equal opportunity in the polling place, he must have equal opportunity in the market place. These economic royalists complain that we seek to overthrow the institutions of America. What they really complain of is that we seek to take away their power.”
Then, on the eve of his second election — on October 31, 1936 — FDR delivered his coup de grace, explaining the stakes in his fight with the moneyed interests.
“We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace — business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering.
They had begun to consider the Government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs. We know now that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob.
Never before in all our history have these forces been so united against one candidate as they stand today. They are unanimous in their hate for me — and I welcome their hatred.
I should like to have it said of my first Administration that in it the forces of selfishness and of lust for power met their match. I should like to have it said of my second Administration that in it these forces met their master.”
Today’s economic royalists are backing Trump, and the fight is much the same.
The high mavens of Silicon Valley held a fundraiser for him last week. The Business Roundtable (the voice of big corporations in Washington) is preparing to pump an eight-figure sum into the Trump campaign.
Jamie Dimon, chair and CEO of the biggest and most influential bank in the United States and for years the spokesman for corporate America, is coming around to Trump. Elon Musk, the richest person in the world, is turning his X platform into a weaponized outlet for Trump.
Trump has asked the robber barons of Big Oil for $1 billion as an advance quid pro quo for rolling back environmental regulations. Miriam Adelson, heir to the casino magnate, has pledged $100 million to Trump.
Today’s moneyed interests are far richer in proportion to average Americans and the American economy as a whole than they were when FDR took them on. Corporate profits are near record levels, and many big corporations are keeping prices high in order to reap even more. CEO pay is through the stratosphere. The stock market is hitting record highs.
The moneyed interests have done wonderfully well under Joe Biden, despite Biden’s support for labor unions and his crackdown on monopolies.
But it’s apparently not enough for them. They want additional tax cuts and regulation rollbacks and are willing to support Trump — and flush democracy down the toilet — in order to get them.
They are also more politically potent today than they were in the 1930s, when the Great Crash of 1929 and the ensuing Great Depression had discredited them.
Meanwhile, Donald Trump continues to pose as a hero of the working class who will fight for average working people. He is not, of course. He is a stooge of the moneyed interests.
Which makes it doubly important for Biden to channel FDR a week from tonight and speak the truth — that only once before, 88 years ago, have the moneyed interests been so united against one candidate as they stand today against Joe Biden.
They hate Biden — and Biden should welcome their hatred.
” I do believe trump’s main weaponry will be interrupting Biden’s speech so as to confuse the issues amongst people.”
He won’t be able to do so – CNN’s debate rules include “Microphones will be muted throughout the debate except for the candidate whose turn it is to speak.”
However, although the Biden campaign won the coin flip (tails) they chose to select Biden’s podium position – to the right – leaving the Trump campaign to select the order of closing statements – they chose to have their candidate deliver the last closing statement. I think the Biden campaign blundered, in going with a trivial symbolic podium position over the final closing statement. Maybe they don’t know Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar
The moneyed interest today are Ironically : the administrative bureaucracy, the civil service, as they are called 90% Democrat party members Invented by the Pendleton Act of 1883 and growing through wars and crises, and deeply entrenched in the 21st century, it is more than 2 million strong and consists of more than 400 Federal agencies paid $ 575 million dollars per day. They hate Donald Trump due to his efforts by Schedule F to move the Senior Executive Service to the Executive Branch from civil service and Fed. Union protections. This move would have made these unelected money driven bureaucrats accountable to the elected Executive and Legislative Branches
Jackson
you need to wash your brain out with soap and water. you believe a lunatic paranoid conspiracy theory lied into your brain by people who hope to destroy the power of government to limit their own crimes against the those less powerful than themselves.
“Limit the power of Government”! Exactly Comrade— There are no angels in governments –check out Russia China etc. only parasitic gangs when governments are more powerful.
Jackson
“there are no angels in government.” exactly. the framers knew this. that’s why they tried to frame a government of checks and balances.
get rid of the government we have and you will end up with government by the criminals who are telling you to get rid of government.
it’s not that you can’t win. it’s that you can’t win by being stupid.
Coberly like most liberals you resort to personal insults rather than discussing FACTs—try to improve via research rather than emotional out bursts –Putting the administrative state under control of elected officials is good government. —If Elon can fire 80% of Twitter employees and it runs fine now– How many Federal Agencies have ever closed? or so do we need 2 million in the Federal bureaucracy?
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@Jackson,
LOL!
If you think running a small plutocratic digital dictatorship like Twitter is comparable to running a 3,809,525 square mile republic of 331 million citizens, you obviously don’t know anything about either. Not an insult, just a fact.
BTW, “administrative state” is just a right-wing slang term for what most people call “government,” and the government (except for a few federal judges) *is* under control of elected officials. If you don’t think so, you obviously don’t know about government in the United States of America. Not an insult, just fact.
Joel
The people run the country not the Government—Comrade– You need to read the Constitution
@Jackson,
LOL!
*The people* don’t run the government, the people (citizens) elect people who run the government. That’s what a democratic republic means. The US is not a pure democracy and never has been. You need to read and understand the Constitution. Not an insult, just a fact.
Indeed, *the people* don’t run the executive branch. They don’t even elect the president and vice-president. The president and vice president are appointed by the electoral college. You need to read and understand the Constitution. Not an insult, just a fact.
Jackson
i checked what i said to you. i see no insults. only an observation that you have been lied to. that you cannot get rid of government, only replace the one you have with the one the liars want to have.
i also looked again at what you said. i see no argument, only assertions.
When you addressed me as “comrade” did you mean to insult me? I am very far from being a communist.
The “administrative state” IS under the control of politicians in this country. What you are objecting to is that it is not directly under the control of YOUR politicians. That is because even the “bad guy” politicians, up until recently, recognized, first, that actual administration requires expertise and time not usually available to politicians or the public, and that we cannot lurch from policy to policy because of who wins the next election. This tends to promote cooperation among politicians of both stripes to try to reach understandings (compromises?) that are best for the country as a whole…at least to the extent that we can live with them… and each be accorded the same consideration whoever happens to be in the temporary majority.
Now, you may count this as an insult if you choose: your beliefs are so far from being reasonable that no one feels it worth their time to try to change your mind. our fear is that true believers like you will win one more election and establish their own cockaminy ideas as the law of the land, and take steps that we never see a “fair” election again, or government by anything more responsible that the blackmail the Republican Right has been pulling off more and more aggressively in recent years.
“Elon can fire 80% of Twitter employees and it runs fine now”
The claim that Xitter is running fine now is truly stupid.
Bob:
Thank you. Elon’s ego is running what is left of twitter. Lets see what happens o it now.
AngryBear in re “welcome their hatered.”
Joe Biden is no FDR. and quoting a famous line from a great man, applying it to himself, would just make him seem ridiculous and weak.
Biden’s problem is that the art and science of propaganda, funded by billionaires, has made him the victim of a Big Lie. and the tragedy here is going to be that the Left may not vote for him because in trying to manage a complex reality he has not given them the moral satisfaction their simple minds “demand.”
Joel I said the people run the country–if the government runs the Country you have a Fascist system —Which is what the Democrat controlled Federal Administrative State desires- if they continue to flood the country with illegals they may succeed via voting block
@Jackson,
LOL!
I said that you’re wrong. The people *don’t* run our country. The government runs our country. Which is how the founding fathers set it up. The government runs the country in democratic republics, monarchies, fascist states and socialist/communist states. A government-run state isn’t a unique feature of fascism.
In our country, the people elect the people who run the government, except for the president and vice-president. In those two cases, the people elect slates of electors who then appoint the POTUS and VPOTUS. If you consider the judiciary as part of government, that’s not run by the people, either–indeed, many judges including those on the SCOTUS are appointed, although they can be impeached and removed (not by the people, but by their representatives in the legislative branch of the government).
Nobody is flooding the country with “illegals”–that’s just GOP propaganda. Also, only citizens can vote.
I suggest you learn something about American government, the US election system and the US Constitution before posting here again.
joel
thank you for replying to Jackson so I don’t have to.
i think i know what you mean when you say the people don’t run the country. certainly we have a constitution designed to prevent “mob rule,” but we seem to be getting closer to mob rule…mob run by the very rich, and may i say, fascists…in that they believe in rule by naked force of an organized few over the powerless….with the advent of Trump and a Republican party that sees no reason to be honest or even practical in governing if they can win by cheating and blackmail.
but even with the Electoral College and “representative government” we, in theory at least, have a government “run by the people.” the people in free elections elect their representatives as well as “the electors” who are only “messengers” to carry the results of a popular election to the capitol for a formal ceremony to declare the winner. i think the day when the electors could vote for the candidate of their own choice are over. i am pretty sure if we did not have honest popular elections we would never have seen a Roosevelt or a Lincoln….and, i believe, it was Washington himself who saved us from rule by a –no doubt well intentioned–faction of the rich and well-born, and preserved the “government by the people” implicit in the Constitution and very much the intent and desire of the people who fought the Revolution.
i am fairly sure we will soon have the false democracy prevalent in the American South since the Founding, and the end of Reconstruction, and the dictatorships that have emerged throughout the world as the powerful learned how take over democratic governments by force and fraud without changing their form.
Jackson is an agent…knowing or not… of a very serious attempt to accomplish that in America. not an “insult”, just an obvious “fact.”
Dale:
He reminds me of someone who was banned by Dan because he would not stop with his trolling.
Jackson
not a fan of even private sector censorship myself, but i wish we could avoid giving you a microphone. probably there is no danger of anyone believing anything you say, but when Trump says it, millions of uninformed people do.
i am sorry you think i am resorting to “insults” but i am not going to spend a lot of time building evidence and argument to refute you. there is not a chance in hell you would ever know when you were refuted. and not much chance that anyone who agrees with you would change their minds if god himself spoke to them personally.