A Platform for Progressives

During lunch or after school, I and many of my classmates often stopped at Hobby’s Drug Store.  At the corner of Baldridge and Jones Avenues in North Braddock, it was no more than three blocks from either the borough’s junior high or high schools.  But we didn’t visit Hobby’s as a social event.  We went there to use its extensive collection of Classics Illustrated comic books.  As research tools for book and other reports, Classics Illustrated was unparalleled ...   :-))

In an effort, analogous to the Classics Illustrated gambit, to streamline research, we offer the table below – a scorecard of sorts that compares the Bill of Rights, FDR’s Second Bill of Rights, and the positions of 2020 Democratic candidates.

This from FDR’s Bill	Relates to this item from the Original	Which corresponds to	Which is supported by these candidates (declared or not)
The right to work with dignity at a useful, remunerative job	The First Amendment, which, in addition to affirming the right of the people peaceably to assemble, implicitly protects freedom of association , which in turn is the basis for such entities as labor unions	A $15.00 minim wage	Biden Booker Gillebrand Harris Klobuchar Sanders Warren
Income sufficient to ensure adequate food, housing, and leisure
Income and profits sufficient to ensure farmers the rights cited above	The Fifth Amendment, which, among other tings, provides for compensation, under the premise of eminent domain, to owners whose property the government takes	The Green New Deal	Booker Buttegieg Castro Gabbard Gillebrand Harris Klobuchar Sanders Warren
Freedom from unfair competition and the negative effects of monopolies	The Ninth Amendment, which affirms additional fundamental rights outside those enumerated in the Constitution	Ending corporate political action committee donations to campaigns	Biden Booker Gillebrand Harris Klobuchar Sanders Warren
The right of people to a decent home	The First Amendment, which, in addition to affirming the right of the people peaceably to assemble, implicitly protects freedom of association , which in turn is the basis for such entities as labor unions	A $15.00 minim wage	Biden Booker Gillebrand Harris Klobuchar Sanders Warren
The right of people to adequate medical care, and the opportunity to achieve and sustain good health	The First Amendment, implicitly protects freedom of association , which in turn is the basis for such entities as labor unions, and for government programs like Social Security and Medicare, which are based on addressing the needs of very large groups of citizens	Support for labor unions	Biden Booker Buttegieg Castro Gabbard Gillebrand Harris Klobuchar Sanders Warren
The right to be protected from economic hardship due to old age, sickness, accident, or unemployment	The Ninth Amendment, which affirms additional fundamental rights outside those enumerated in the Constitution The First Amendment, which implicitly protects freedom of association , which in turn is the basis for such entities as labor unions	Support for labor unions Support for group-based programs like Medicare and Social Security	Biden Booker Buttegieg Castro Gabbard Gillebrand Harris Klobuchar Sanders Warren
The right to a good education	The First Amendment, which implicitly protects freedom of association , which in turn is the basis for such entities as labor unions and student associations	Tuition-free public college	Booker Gabbard Gillebrand Harris Sanders

For more detail on more issues of importance, take a look here.