The God of American progressives: Franklin Delano Roosevelt
By Michael Moriarty
web posted December 31, 2007
If Franklin Delano Roosevelt's life said anything it was, "There is really no one I can't charm into my way of thinking."
Joseph V. Stalin's reply might have been, "There is really no one I can't convince that I have just been charmed into their way of thinking … when the truth is that I hate charming people. If gratitude is, like I've said it is, only for dogs, charm is only for dogs that always lie."
Franklin Delano Roosevelt's wife, Eleanor, would deny the title of this editorial, my calling her husband not only a Progressive but the God of American Progressives. She would forbid that title any right to live. In her own words, at least according to one of the Democratic Party's Boswells, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., she wrote, "The American Communists will be the nucleus of Mr. Wallace's third party."
Henry A. Wallace, if you will remember, was FDR's one-term Vice-President who later ran against FDR in a third party bid as a Progressive and, of course, lost.
Mrs. Roosevelt went even further, "Any use of my husband's name in connection with that party is from my point of view dishonest."
Well! It's hard to believe, but Eleanor Roosevelt, in that quote at any rate, almost sounds like Joe McCarthy.
"The lady doth protest too much" … perhaps.
The one undeniable obsession which FDR did have was to build a United Nations, a "world police force" the center of which was the "Big Four" at that time, the nations of the US, the British Empire, Soviet Russia and Nationalist China.
Many asked President Roosevelt, "Why China?"
They obviously don't ask him that question now. They don't even pose that question to anyone. Why Red China?! Look at Beijing's goose-stepping Red Army and you'll know.
With Islam clearly replacing the British Empire's police force and, via terrorism, over-powering it internationally, with almost the same one sixth of the earth's population to match Communist China's, three fourths of the United Nation's police force is unquestionably and undeniably anti-American. The last part of this quartet, the United States itself, is not even particularly American these days, but it is, without question, Rooseveltian!
The objectives of the United Nations still remain those of Franklin Delano Roosevelt: to make the United States, for the sake of peace of course, an increasingly obedient member of a world government, the United Nations, one that was created by an American President, but contains little of the initial individual freedom and responsibility inherent in the American Declaration of Independence. In short, and despite what Eleanor Roosevelt said about her husband, the United Nations is Marxist … and, as one, very Red representative of a non-governmental organization declared in the United Nations' General Assembly, "The enemy is individual freedom!"
Whether the New York Times, which is where I read this last quote, wishes to corroborate such a breathtaking statement or not, is unimportant. Even if it hadn't been said and quoted, which it had, defenders of individual freedom have already identified the Marxists' greatest enemy as America's own individual freedom.
"Better dead than red," an oft quoted cri du coeur of the American, very Republican Fifties and of the Cold War with Soviet Russia, that battle cry had anticipated Communism's admission, its confession that a Communist cannot stand, nor endure for long, the lonely but glorious journey of individual freedom. Only Communism's homicidal leaders, such as Stalin, Mao Tse Tung and Pol Pot were individually free to engage in purges, forced starvation and political mass executions.
Why did the Russians, the Chinese and the Cambodians allow it? They had never, under their governments, been called upon to be individually free.
This sickening feeling one gets from reading Roosevelt's sycophantic correspondence with Joseph V. Stalin (see Susan Butler's compilation of their correspondance, My Dear Mr. Stalin) is only surpassed by the narcissism of President Richard Nixon and Henry A. Kissinger as they moved toward a rapprochement with Red China's monster, Mao Tse Tung. The recent biography of Mao by Yung Chang and Jon Haliday is such a documentary of horror that I couldn't finish it.
"Gratitude is for dogs," said Stalin, and Mao might have added, "We eat dogs"!
Pol Pot? He lived out his natural life in Red China eating finer food than dog meat.
Stalin was a "bad guy" but, as FDR might have said, echoing his remark about a right wing dictator in Latin America, "Uncle Joe Stalin is my bad guy!"
Stalin certainly wasn't Harry Truman's idea of an ally. V. M. Molotov's first visit to Truman's Oval Office received a well-deserved, verbal slap in the face. Leave it to the likes of the very Progressive, American Ambassador to the Soviet Union, William Averell Harriman, however, to smarmily pay tribute to his Rooseveltian Progressivism with, "I was a little taken aback, frankly, when the President attacked Molotov so vigorously … I did regret that Truman went at it so hard, because his behavior gave Molotov an excuse to tell Stalin that the Roosevelt policy was being abandoned. I regretted that Truman gave him the opportunity. I think it was a mistake."
Please buy Ambassador Harriman another Molotov cocktail!
The Ambassador's last sentence about it being a mistake … Harriman, General George Marshall and Dean Acheson made sure that President Harry Truman would decreasingly make such mistakes again. Their persuasiveness went so far as to have General Douglas MacArthur fired, disposed of because of MacArthur's eager willingness to fight not only North Korean Communism, but Mao Tse Tung's Chinese Communism and, if necessary, face down Stalin and the Soviet Union as well.
Roosevelt's ghost still hangs over and, in many cases, directs the White House. There is no doubt that, despite William Clinton's Global Initiative, his increasingly evident messianic complex and his desire to outdo Roosevelt's four elections to the Presidency by letting his wife Hillary think she will be in charge as President for two more Clinton terms, Franklin D. Roosevelt is still in command of this Progressive leap off of the American Declaration of Independence and into the arms of Communism's "bad guys", bad cops on the global beat, corruptive influences upon both the Democrat and Republican Parties, the historians of which legendize the likes of Nixon and Kissinger while, at the same time, assuring a now 20 year hegemony for the Bush/Clinton/Rooseveltian, Pax Americana, Third Way, United Nations' New World Order. 
Michael Moriarty is a Golden Globe and Emmy Award-winning actor who starred in the landmark television series Law and Order from 1990 to 1994. His recent film and TV credits include The Yellow Wallpaper, 12 Hours to Live, Santa Baby and Deadly Skies. Moriarty is also running for President of the United States in 2008 as a candidate for the Realists Party. To find out more about Moriarty's presidential campaign, contact rainbowfamily2008@yahoo.com.