Tag: Franklin Delano Roosevelt

We, the Plutocrats vs. We, the People

Post author By Todd Smekens
Post date September 15, 2016

We, the Plutocrats vs. We, the People September 15, 2016 by Bill Moyers This post first appeared on BillMoyers.com. The following is a condensed version of a speech that Bill Moyers delivered at the Chautauqua Institution in Chautauqua, New York, on July 8, 2016, and is crossposted at TomDispatch.com. Sixty-six years ago this summer, on […]

Tags Abraham Lincoln, Barry Goldwater, Bill Moyers, democracy, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Gordon Gekko, Isabel Sawhill, James Madison, Jim Crow, Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, Lyndon Johnson, Oligarchy, Oliver Stone, plutocrats, Sara McClanahan, Walt Whitman

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People Power: Restoring the Great Democracy

Post author By Todd Smekens
Post date April 13, 2014
2 Comments on People Power: Restoring the Great Democracy

MUNCIE, Indiana – This country was formed based on the collective voices of the people making up a new country at the time. The founders fought for and earned their freedom from a ruling monarchy intertwined with the Church of England. They had no say in their government and had no freedom from religion. You […]

Tags democracy, FDR, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, free market theory, free markets, Gilded Age, Koch Brothers, liberalism, libertarians, people power, Walton Family