Four Freedoms Speech: Threats to Democracy (Sentences 23-26) Summary

What a Bunch of Jerks

  • FDR states that democracy is being attacked everywhere either with violence or false rhetoric by people who want to destroy peaceful, unified nations. He's directly referring to the Axis powers and their military aggression.
  • He laments the number of countries that have fallen to the Axis powers since the beginning of the war, which started in September 1939 and is still going strong.
  • FDR warns that the conflicts in Europe and Asia directly affect America and its future.