It's time for the Democrats to resume being the New Deal Party

In the State of the Union speech from January 1944, Franklin Roosevelt laid out a second bill of rights, rights which he believed would allow human beings to be able to fully enjoy the freedoms guaranteed by the original.

That was 70 years ago and look where we are now. The party of FDR talks about "restructuring" and cutting the very programs that our great President fought to achieve for us all.

For all the scrambling for voters, the fact is that fully half or better of the eligible voters in the US don't bother to vote. It isn't because they are stupid or don't care; they do not believe it makes any difference.

We need to pick up the mantle of FDR and fight to make his second bill of rights a reality. Saying "it can't be done" kills any chance from the get go. It can be done and it would have been done a long time ago if FDR had survived the war. Instead, we got what we got.

The second bill of rights. I always point out to any right winger I bring up the topic to that the FIRST on the list is a J.O.B. This is not about handouts or a free lunch. A basic RIGHT is the right to a job that pays you enough to enjoy a decent living and provide you with the means to secure the other rights:

Food, clothing and leisure
Farmers' rights to a fair income
Freedom from unfair competition and monopolies
Housing
Education

It's time. This needs to be done. WE need to be The Greatest Generation and accomplish this. It's as Democratic as Democratic can be.