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Franklin D. Roosevelt: I Welcome Their Hatred
From an FDR 1936 campaign speech in Madison Square Garden:
"For nearly four years you have had an Administration which instead of twirling its thumbs has rolled up its sleeves. We will keep our sleeves rolled up.
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."
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The Establishment
berniesanders.com, December 22, 2015
At a town meeting in Storm Lake, Iowa, on Tuesday, Bernie Sanders brought up an exchange during last weekend’s Democratic debate when David Muir of ABC News asked a question about Hillary Clinton and corporate America. “The last time you ran for president, Fortune Magazine put you on its cover with the headline Business Loves Hillary, pointing out your support for many CEOs in corporate America. I’m curious,” the “World News Tonight” anchorman asked, “eight years later, should corporate America love Hillary Clinton?”
Clinton quipped: “Everybody should.”
When Sanders got his turn at the debate podium, he said, “The CEOs of large multinationals may like Hillary. They ain’t going to like me and Wall Street is going to like me even less.”
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Bernie Sanders: I Welcome Their Dislike
In Iowa on Monday, Bernie elaborated.
“I do not want to be liked by everybody. I want to be liked and supported by the middle class and working families because I am going to take on Wall Street and the billionaire class. They do not like me today. They will like me even less if I am elected president. I welcome their dislike.”
The resemblance is something …
In times other than these, these kind of promises would cause some power-brokers and custodians of Society — NOT to Like you very much.
And Bernie Sanders, like FDR, Welcomes their Disdain. Enough is Enough, It’s time to get to work.