“What [these ‘economic royalists’] really complain of is that we seek to take away their power. Our allegiance to American institutions requires the overthrow of this kind of power. In vain they seek to hide behind the Flag and the Constitution. In their blindness they forget what the Flag and the Constitution stand for. Now, as always, they stand for democracy, not tyranny; for freedom, not subjection; and against a dictatorship by mob rule and the over-privileged alike"
Do you think, as the author of the article argues, that this FDR quote from 1936 is applicable to today’s Tea Party? How can this comparison help us today to defend the values & institutions we hold dear?
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