
Franklin D. Roosevelt, when pressed for bold action during the Great Depression, famously told activists: “Now go out there and make me do it.” It wasn’t a throwaway line , it was a roadmap. The people had to push. He knew change wasn’t handed down from the heavens; it was wrenched from the hands of power by a determined public. Today, as inequality deepens, political gridlock calcifies, and authoritarianism creeps like black mold, the question isn’t whether we need another Roosevelt moment. The question is: Who’s going to be the force that makes it happen?
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