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Franklin Roosevelt’s
Legacy
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
February 18, 2006
To play a useful role in history,
influential leaders of institutions
are those, like President Franklin
Roosevelt, who act to prevent, or to prepare
for a crisis before it has happened,
while it could still be prevented.
Now, the U.S. Democratic Party
approaches a new general election,
when that party has a pressing need for
the immediate circulation of a platform
which represents an actually programmatic
approach to the crucial policydecisions
with which the presently
oncoming world crisis already threatens
us.
This crisis is expressed, on the one
side, by the failure of the Party, so far,
to speak openly, with sufficient clarity,
resolution, and force, on the deeper
implications of even the obvious issues
which are presently under discussion
among some of the Party’s leading circles.
This involves, on the deeper level,
the apparent lack of any expressed programmatic
comprehension of certain
deeper issues which must be brought to
the table now, because decision, or lack
of policy thinking on these issues will determine the
future of all mankind for a very long time to come.
The mistaken recent assumption among some
notable Democrats, an assumption which we must
now, immediately correct, has been the expressed
attitude, in practice, that crucial issues could be
postponed until after the coming, November midterm
elections, when a riper form of an already
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LaRouche advises the Democratic Party: “The Party’s efforts must be based,
like victory in warfare, on a well-defined, well-chosen, sense of historic mission.
Prospective leading candidates Flub and Dub, are not needed at this time.”
Here, LaRouche addresses a webcast audience in Washington on Feb. 23.
grave crisis will appear. So, in effect, it has been
assumed, mistakenly, by some Democrats, as others,
that any firm position on crucial issues of long-term
policy, would be a matter which were better postponed
until that point later in this year, perhaps
after the actuality of the presently oncoming economic
disaster has become irreparable.
As we should have recognized after the near-fias-