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Published: Monday, Mar. 3, 2003
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The following piece was released by LaRouche in 2004, Lyndon LaRouche's Presidential campaign committee, on Feb. 28. LaRouche is seeking the 2004 Democratic Presidential nomination.
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. — Feb. 28, 2003
That outburst by one important Democratic official, came in response to the measures which have been taken by the DNC faction of the 2000 Presidential campaign-ticket of Al Gore and Joseph Lieberman, all in a frankly hysterical and thuggish attempt to exclude me from the list of current candidates for the Democratic Party's 2004 Presidential nomination.
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The issue behind that series of thuggish actions taken by representatives of the Democratic Leadership Council's (DLC) faction in the Party is the issue defined by Senator Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) in a January 1995 declaration, that "This nation does not need two Republican Parties." The traditional Democratic Party, which I defend and promote, is that of the tradition of President Franklin Roosevelt. The opposing, "second Republican Party" to which Senator Kennedy referred, is that of Marc Rich-linked Gore and Lieberman, et al. today.
The "second Republican Party" on which Senator Kennedy focussed in his January 1995 address, the DLC, came into being during the early 1980s around Meyer Lansky mob-offshoot Michael Steinhardt. This Michael Steinhardt is a leading associate of the "Russian Mafiya" kingpin Marc Rich, the same Marc Rich closely associated with current U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney's office.
Over the course of the recent two decades, this faction within the Democratic Party has based itself on rejecting the interests of the lower 80% of family-income brackets. These in the lower 80% are today's equivalent of the "forgotten man" on whose behalf Franklin Roosevelt campaigned in 1932. They are the families of farmers, manufacturing operatives, senior citizens, those in need of health-care, the homeless, and the poor generally.
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We begin EIW's second year of publication, by harkening back to our first History column, which was launched by focussing on the inaugural actions of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Once again, FDR's leadership, especially the decisive moves which he took 70 years ago, during the March 4-June 12 "One Hundred Days," must be brought to our recollection. That quality of leadership, and the principle of the general welfare which informed it, still represents the crying need of the American population, and the world, today.
So, over the next 15 weeks, we will review again, with more attention to the principles involved, the method by which FDR reversed the nation's course into destruction—explicitly referencing the kinds of actions which are needed today.
Having survived an assassination attempt in January 1933, Franklin Roosevelt took office on March 4, 1933. We will republish here the first part of his Inaugural Address. But before we do, let's summarize the key points:
1) First, face the whole truth, including the fact that "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
2) Second, the nation's dire crisis is man-made, and therefore soluble.
3) Third, the values of the "money-changers," and the idea that money is the source of happiness and success, must be put aside as false.
4) Fourth, the major element of a solution is putting people to productive work.
5) Fifth, there are certain minimal changes that must be made to the money system, including those measures that will end speculation, and create a sound currency.
In large part, the same shifts are what we require today, although our population's corruption by the speculation-based, consumer society is much, much greater, and thus the abruptness of the shift required is much, much greater. More important, it must be recognized that there are many fewer people willing to tell the truth about the actual economic and financial crisis these days—with Lyndon LaRouche being left as the only prominent political leader situated to inspire the kind of confidence, and change in orientation, which FDR led the American people into back in 1933.
Re-read the March 4, 1933 Inaugural address, with this reality in mind:
I am certain that my fellow Americans expect that on my induction into the Presidency I will address them with a candor and a decision which the present situation of our Nation impels. This is preeminently the time to speak the truth, the whole truth, frankly and boldly. Nor need we shrink from honestly facing conditions in our country today. This great Nation will endure as it has endured, will revive and will prosper. So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance. In every dark hour of our national life a leadership of frankness and vigor has met with that understanding and support of the people themselves which is essential to victory. I am convinced that you will again give that support to leadership in these critical days.
In such a spirit on my part and on yours we face our common difficulties. They concern, thank God, only material things. Values have shrunken to fantastic levels; taxes have risen; our ability to pay has fallen; government of all kinds is faced by serious curtailment of income; the means of exchange are frozen in the currents of trade; the withered leaves of industrial enterprise lie on every side; farmers find no markets for their produce; the savings of many years in thousands of families are gone.
More important, a host of unemployed citizens face the grim problem of existence, and an equally great number toil with little return. Only a foolish optimist can deny the dark realities of the moment.
Yet our distress comes from no failure of substance. We are stricken by no plague of locusts. Compared with the perils which our forefathers conquered because they believed and were not afraid, we have still much to be thankful for. Nature still offers her bounty and human efforts have multiplied it. Plenty is at our doorstep, but a generous use of it languishes in the very sight of the supply. Primarily this is because the rulers of the exchange of mankind's goods have failed, through their own stubbornness and their own incompetence, have admitted their failure, and abdicated. Practices of the unscrupulous money changers stand indicted in the court of public opinion, rejected by the hearts and minds of men.
True they have tried, but their efforts have been cast in the pattern of an outworn tradition. Faced by failure of credit they have proposed only the lending of more money. Stripped of the lure of profit by which to induce our people to follow their false leadership, they have resorted to exhortations, pleading tearfully for restored confidence. They know only the rules of a generation of self-seekers. They have no vision, and when there is no vision the people perish.
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