Simply Happy: Sophia Loren & Brigitte Bardot- Mambo Italiano

Source:Simply Happy- Mambo Italiano with Brigitte Bardot.

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Music : Mambo Italiano - Bette Midler - Sings Rosemary Clooney Songbook - 2003

(I do not own the rights for the music)" 

Source:GIFS- Sophia Loren's Mambo Italiano.

From Simply Happy 

French Babydoll (as I call her) Brigitte Bardot was (at least) as adorable as woman could be. You put a list of the top Hollywood Babydoll's of all-time together, you would be spending a lot of time on that and perhaps have too much free time to put together a list like that, but if you actually did that, Brigitte would be in the top 1%. Not the French Marilyn Monroe, because she was ever cuter and a better actress. But it's Sophia Loren (The Italian Goddess, as I call her) who really makes this video work with that incredible voice and that great song with the great beat, with Brigitte looking as adorable as any woman could in the video. 

If you watch the original version of Mambo Italiano with Sophia Loren, Sophia is doing all the work in the video. The singing, the dancing, looking absolutely hot as a summer day in Sicily and absolutely adorable with that sizzling baby face and incredible voice that gives every man who has probably ever heard or seen her the impression that they've died early and have been sent from Heaven, or that Sophia was sent down from Heaven and given a second chance at life to make men happy. 

So in the Mambo Italiano video with Brigitte Bardot, you have this absolutely adorable French Babydoll who looks like she could still be in high school, (or junior high, or elementary school) dancing to the song of a Goddess who looks like she was just sent down from Heaven, in Sophia Loren, which obviously makes for a very attractive combination. 

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CSPAN: Katherine Benton-Cohen- 'Lectures In History: The Progressive Era'

Source:CSPAN- Theodore Roosevelt: at least arguably the father of the Progressive Movement in America, campaigning for President, perhaps in 1912.

"We visit Georgetown University for a class with professor Katherine Benton-Cohen. She explains how politicians and reform groups in the early 20th century attempted to improve social and economic conditions through trust busting, interstate regulation, and Prohibition. We also hear about the policies and campaigns of Theodore Roosevelt, the period's most dominant political figure.

Source:CSPAN- Catherine Benton-Cohen: Professor of History, Georgetown University.

Full lecture here:CSPAN."  

From CSPAN

Just on a personal note first, which is actually very important, because it's why I'm writing this piece: I was watching this lecture on CSPAN last Wednesday night (what can I say: I'm a political history junky, who watches CSPAN) from Georgetown University History Professor Catherine Benton-Cohen and she was talking about the Progressive Era from a hundred plus years ago. And she made some very interesting points that I want to talk about in this piece about Progressive (the real Progressives, as I call them) and progressivism (the real progressivism, as I call it) that I'm going to get into in this piece. 

Professor Cohen talking about people she would call Reformers (the people I call the Progressives) versus Revolutionaries. (People I call Socialists) When you're talking and thinking about these two political factions, you're talking basically talking about the Theodore Roosevelt's of the world and his Progressive Republicans and Progressive Party. Versus the Eugene Debs (Look him up, if you're not familiar and you're interested in Socialists and socialism)  Eugene Debs was a Socialist activist early in the 20th Century, who was also an antiwar activist and pacifist who ran for President multiple times for the Socialist Party back then. 

Professor Cohen was arguing that the Progressives led by Teddy Roosevelt and others (the Reformers) were trying to fix and improve the economic system in America so it could work for more people. Whereas the Socialists led by Gene Debs and others (the Revolutionaries) wanted to tear down the American capitalist system, start over, and create something else, like a socialist state. 

One way and perhaps even a humorous and perhaps insulting way (if you're a Revolutionary) to look at the Reformer vs Revolutionary debate, is to think about a mechanic versus a rioter. The mechanic simply wants to fix what's the wrong with the car or whatever he's working on (or the person could be a she) if he can and perhaps even make the car better. The rioter says the car is no good and therefor needs to be destroyed and be replaced by a completely different car. 

Well, there was a split in the Progressive Era or movement 100 years ago better Reformers and Revolutionaries with the Revolutionaries led by Debbs and others believing that progressivism doesn't go far enough and what the country needs instead is a socialist movement that eventually leads to America becoming a socialist state. Something that Socialists in and outside of the Democratic Party are still fighting for 100 years later. With the Reformers led by TR and others saying that what works well in America, works very well and what we need to do instead is create an America that works for more people, but within the American capitalist system of property rights, private enterprise, and opportunity. 

I've been arguing for the last three ever years ever since I started this blog that Progressives and Socialists aren't the same people with just two different labels. And that progressivism and socialism isn't the same political philosophy isn't the same political philosophy with two different names. That there are real differences in both even if share similar goals. Like a country with no poverty and bigotry. (To use as examples) And in the near future I will write a piece about how Progressives and Socialists are very different and I hope you'll enjoy that as well. 

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Theodore Roosevelt: Proud To Be a Conservative?

Source:Ben Norton- Teddy Roosevelt's: definition of a Conservative?

"Theodore Roosevelt quotes and sayings.

Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt (October 27, 1858  January 6, 1919)  was the 26th President of the United States. Well know for his famous quotes. He is well remembered for his energetic personality, range of interests and achievements, leadership of the Progressive Movement, model of masculinity, and his "cowboy" image. He was a leader of the Republican Party and founder of the short-lived Progressive ("Bull Moose") Party of 1912. Before becoming President (19011909) he held offices at the municipal, state, and federal level of government. Roosevelt's achievements as a naturalist, explorer, hunter, author, and soldier are as much a part of his fame as any office he held as a politician."

Source:Wiley Studios- Some of Teddy Roosevelt's quotes

From Wiley Studios

What I get from this Teddy Roosevelt quote about being a Conservative, is that he intended to conserve private corporations and leave them place and even protect their rights, but in the interests of the people. That for-profit corporations aren't there simply to make as much money for themselves at all costs and be able to do anything that they want at call costs, that what they're doing has to benefit the people as well. That corporations are part of the American community and therefor have both rights and responsibilities to the country as well.

Teddy Roosevelt, wasn't an Ayn Laissez Faire capitalist when it came to economic policy. And he wasn't a Eugene Debs. ( one of the prominent Socialist in TR's time ) either. Teddy Roosevelt, was a Progressive Republican ( I know that sounds funny today ) who believed in American capitalism, private enterprise, and individualism, but that those things should be for everyone. Not just people who are born to wealth and that everyone should have an opportunity to succeed in America and that government, including the Federal Government has a responsibility to see that everyone has a shot to make it in America.

Teddy Roosevelt, didn't believe in high taxation ( at least not across the board ) and he didn't believe that everyone should be guaranteed a middle class income. But he did believe everyone should have a good shot and opportunity to be successful in America. And that government had real responsibilities in seeing that everyone did have those opportunities. Like has it to the regulatory states to protect consumers and workers from predators. A public safety net for people who fall on hard times. A public infrastructure system so people can get around and so jobs can be created in this country. And believed that being a Conservative was about conserving our American values like capitalism, private enterprise, individualism, but that those things had to work for everyone, not just wealthy people.

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Roosevelt House: Patricia O'Toole- The Moralist: 'Woodrow Wilson and The World He Made'

Source:Roosevelt House- A Patricia O'Toole book event about Woodrow Wilson. 

"Roosevelt House as we welcome acclaimed historian Patricia  O’Toole and mark the publication of her already acclaimed new book, The Moralist: Woodrow Wilson and the World He Made. O’Toole, the prize-winning biographer of  Theodore Roosevelt and Henry Adams, will be in conversation with David Nasaw, the Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. Professor of History at CUNY Graduate Center and the author of The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy, among other books.

O’Toole and Nasaw will discuss the life and legacy of one of the most high-minded, consequential, and controversial U. S. presidents, and explore O’Toole’s argument that the Wilson presidency offers a cautionary tale about the perils of moral vanity and American overreach in foreign affairs. The speakers will also address the paradoxes that mark Wilson’s career: he was a progressive who enjoyed unprecedented success in leveling the economic playing field, but he was behind the times on racial equality and women’s suffrage. As a Southern boy during the Civil War, he knew the ravages of war, as president he refused to lead the country into World War I until he was convinced that Germany posed a direct threat to the United States. Once committed, he was an admirable commander-in-chief, yet he also presided over harsh suppression of political dissent, and, as president, the re-segregation of the federal government.

Welcoming remarks by Roosevelt House Director Harold Holzer.

Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College, May 15, 2018."

From Roosevelt House

If you want to call Woodrow Wilson a Liberal or even a Liberal Democrat, that's fine but should at leas know what those terms mean:

From Wikipedia

"Liberal democracy, is a liberal political philosophy and form of government that operators under the principles of classical liberalism."

President Woodrow Wilson, was someone who believed in liberal democracy ( perhaps not for all like African-Americans, American-Indians, and women ) and all the liberal values ( except for qual justice and equal rights ) that come with liberal democracy. Like representative democracy, checks and balances, the rule of law, open society, a market economy, property rights, equal justice, equal rights, human rights, civil rights, civil liberties, political freedom for all people. ( Again, except for the groups that I mentioned ) Not exactly the values that so-called liberals ( closeted Socialists, in actuality ) tend to advocate for when they seem to be more interested in central government control over society on behalf of the people, as they would argue.

Woodrow Wilson is literally one of the architects of the liberal democratic order: a group of developed nations that see it as their role to defend and advocate for human rights and individual freedom around the world and speak out and act against nations and leaders that don't believe in those liberal values and instead advocate for authoritarianism and central government control over the people. And that this coalition of democracies, both liberal and social work in coalition to protect themselves from authoritarians who are threats to their freedom and sovereignty and to help other countries who want democracy and freedom for themselves achieve those values as well.

Woodrow Wilson, was in power a 100 years ago and his politics of liberal democratic values, to go along with progressive economic values, along with being essentially a Neo-Confederate when it came to race relations and treatment of non-European-Americans in society, aren't represented by anyone today. We still have Liberal Democrats. We still have Progressives. And we still have Neo-Confederates who are known as Nationalists today on the Right. But we don't have a political faction or even individuals in America that you could call a Wilsonian who represents all of Woodrow Wilson's politics, because it's a 100 years later and and American politics is a lot different, but also when someone tends to be Center-Left ( let's say ) on economic and foreign policy, they also tend to be liberal or progressive on social issues as well.

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AZ Quotes: Theodore Roosevelt- 'It Is Hard To Fail But It's Worse To Have Never Tried To Succeed'

Source:AZ Quotes- One of Teddy Roosevelt's best quotes ever. 

"It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.” -Theodore Roosevelt."

Source:ONO Home- One of Theodore Roosevelt's best quotes. 

From ONO Home

In a world that is not dominated by the imperfect, but is a world of the imperfect where the perfect human being has yet to be born, we all make mistakes. But would we want it any other way? What would you one like if you were perfect an incapable of making mistakes: wouldn't life become boring for you? No point in ever trying to learn anything, because you already know everything. So of course we all fail and have even failed a lot, doesn't make us failures necessarily, if we bothered to acknowledge those mistakes, learn from them and not repeat them again. Because now you know what doesn't work and what works and unless you're an idiot you're going to do what works in the future instead.

Life regardless of where you live is a constant education. Even if you've graduated college or even graduates school and have a masters, your education process hasn't stopped yet. Now you might decide to stop learning and think you already  know everything and have all the answers, but it's people like that you tend to fail the most and make the biggest mistakes, because they think they already know everything. The only time the learning process stops for anyone is after we're already dead, unless we've made to Heaven or Hell and then the learning process just continues. And if there are such places we can learn about what we're missing. The only way to ever fail in life, is to try to succeed and perhaps not know everything and make bad mistakes from that. The only way not to fail is to not try at all and become guilty of not even trying.

Teddy Roosevelt, was the Progressive's Progressive ( as I call him ) who was always moving forward and trying to get better and making life better for himself, people around him, and for society in general. Which is why this quote from his is so Teddy and represents almost everything that he ever stood for as a man. To always look forward and to be the best that anyone can be. For America to be the best country that we can be. That there's no such thing as a perfect society and Utopia, but that should never stop us form ever tying to accomplish that so we can make America as great as it can be. To always look for progress and try to achieve it to make the best country for ourself that we can possibly create. Which is what I get from this great Teddy Roosevelt quote. 

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