"The only thing to fear, is fear itself." FDR
This quote came to mind in reference to an email exchange with a "friend". The air quotes could be removed, but I want to imply that he has a different perspective, not of the word "friend" but politics. Having just dug up the quote, it continues:
"--nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance." I guess that is why labels are so in vogue on the right, but the thought that came to mind as follow-up, was whether FDR could have forseen that fear would be a not only a party, but a platform.
Speaking of tennuous links,(see below link) it is about the labels that imply there is something to fear, in one word. Nonetheless there is something to fight, and it is not ambivalence, but certainty, with courage and faith.
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