tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post4573429102487401955..comments2024-03-28T01:17:42.336-04:00Comments on The Philosopher's Stone: FAITH IN THINGS UNSEENRobert Paul Wolffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11970360952872431856noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-71667602221786287812016-03-11T09:26:50.742-05:002016-03-11T09:26:50.742-05:00His entire campaign though is tantamount to FDR, n...His entire campaign though is tantamount to FDR, not Eugen Debs, regardless of film production. No?Chrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08250295324149056708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-20311101540386293862016-03-10T19:05:02.375-05:002016-03-10T19:05:02.375-05:00I know you've occasionally suggested that Sand...I know you've <a href="http://robertpaulwolff.blogspot.com/2016/01/keeping-track.html" rel="nofollow">occasionally</a> suggested that Sanders is "<a href="http://robertpaulwolff.blogspot.com/2016/02/a-reply-to-chris.html" rel="nofollow">really an FDR liberal, not a genuine socialist in the style of my grandfather or Eugene V. Debs</a>." But I would urge you to reconsider that claim. Although Sanders admires FDR, he often highlights his socialist legacy. For example, in his <a href="https://www.georgetown.edu/Bernie-Sanders-at-GU-2015" rel="nofollow">speech</a> at Georgetown last year, Sanders discussed FDR's State of the Union address of 1944 in which he called for an "<a href="http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/archives/address_text.html" rel="nofollow">economic bill of rights</a>." Prior to being elected mayor of Burlington, Sanders had a somewhat eclectic career. But one thing he did was to produce a documentary film about Eugene V. Debs in 1979, which was also released as a <a href="http://www.folkways.si.edu/bernard-sanders/eugene-v-debs-trade-unionist-socialist-revolutionary-1855-1926/oral-history-biography/album/smithsonian" rel="nofollow">record</a> by Smithsonian Folkways.J. W. F.https://www.blogger.com/profile/07248247420303472121noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-53695673893750567212016-03-10T10:52:21.681-05:002016-03-10T10:52:21.681-05:00In the same vein, Santayana said, "Another wo...In the same vein, Santayana said, "Another world to live in . . . is what we mean by having a religion," and, like Tertullian, he thought (contrary to popular belief) that this wasn't an argument against religion; it was an argument for religion. Unfortunately, elections, unlike religious belief, eventually have a "cash value" in the empirical world: votes. I'm with you, Bob. I think anyone who thinks Bernie can get the nomination has chosen another world to live in. Good religion maybe, but bad politics. But I also thought Trump voters had chosen another world to live in, so what do I know?Tom Cathcarthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16136970056480275148noreply@blogger.com