Epstein Secrets

d both parties will try to allay the fears of the rich that that their policies won't hurt them. And ne

the wee hours. Conventions, not primaries, were the process by which the parties selected their nominees for president and vice president. In 1932 Franklin Roosevelt didn't win the nomination until the fourth ballot in a tense all-night session. His opponent in 1940, Wendell Willkie, winning the Republican nomina

al threat thus remains the Shiite minority in oil-rich areas, and Sunni political Islam in all its form

t to settle problems abroad but to make sure "our own house is in perfect order." He promised to "prosper America first." In the mid-to-late 1930s, Franklin Roosevelt took a different approach, pushing back, at first tentatively but then ever more vigorously, trying to convince the American public that it was mak

that American democracy is for sale and that the rich have more power than the poor, even as lobbyists

. In the first half of the 20th century nascent democracies collapsed in Germany, Spain and Italy. By 1941 there were only 11 democracies left, and Franklin Roosevelt worried that it might not be possible to shield "the great flame of democracy from the blackout of barbarism". The progress seen in the late 20th

ows that too much concentration of wealth at the top, and too much stagnation everywhere else indicate an economy nearing collapse. For example, as Reich shows (Figure la & b), both the crashes of 1928 and 2007 followed on the heels of peaks in which the top i% owned 25% of the country's total wealth.

acted on the calls of Theodore Roosevelt ("the supreme political task of our day... is to drive the special interests out of our public life") and Franklin Roosevelt ("we now know that government by organized money is as dangerous as government by organized mob") to reinvigorate a realm of civic life distinct fro

ens tend to ignore its Arab citizens, just as the rich elsewhere often do not see the poor in their mid

fort with Russia's authoritarian rule and widespread civic corruption. As troubling as Russia is, it hardly represents the kind of evil entity that Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill snuggled up to during World War II. As a regional power, Russia has legitimate regional interests, and the United States sho

s, and we let them cut the capital-gains tax for rich people." Obama's 2010 fiscal deal with the G.O.P

tion, or tax reform would come in 2013. By the middle of 2014, congressional elections will force another hiatus in Washington policymaking. Since Franklin Roosevelt, Presidents have lost an average of thirty House seats and seven Senate seats in their second midterm election. By early 2015, the press will begin

ety -- universal healthcare, higher taxes on the rich, gay marriage, medical marij=ana -- has only made

d). 6 EFTA_R1_01946344 EFTA02672614 Take a nap. <http://i.huffpost.com/gen/1356919/thumbs/o-SLEEPING-IN-5=0.jpg?7> Label people -- literally. Franklin Roosevelt was known to have a memory that would put most of us to shame -- he could remember the name of someone he met just on=e, months ago, seemingly witho