Noting April 12

Although this blog is being posted on Wednesday, April 11, 2018—to allow for a two-day period of comments prior to the weekend threads—there are two notable items about Thursday, April 12.

April 12, 1945 was the date on which 32nd president of the United States Franklin Roosevelt (D–New York) died. The only U.S. president elected beyond two terms, and with landslide victories from all four elections (1932, 1936, 1940, and 1944), there is no point to write a blog entry about the life of Roosevelt. People know enough. Perhaps recommendable is viewing Ken Burns’s 2014 documentary The Roosevelts.

April 12, 1981 was the date on which U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D–Hawaii #02) was born. With much-discussion and -speculation over whether Bernie Sanders would be the next president of the United States specifically from the Democratic Party, there has been a part of me thinking it could be Tulsi Gabbard. Not 2020. But 2024. Mind you, this is not a prediction. But, there is a sense that the corrupt, corporate Democratic Party Establishment are going to implode the party—clearly preferring re-election for Donald Trump in 2020 (as they did his first-term victory in 2016)—before allowing an actual progressive nominated for president of the United States.