LAST DITCH OF DEMOCRACY - Majority Rights

Now what do you think causes that? And what do you think you can or
could do to UNcause it, not necessarily re the a plus b theorem but in the
case of ANY and every economic reform or basic reorganization that
you chose to believe in ?
You say: change in direction of will. All right, say you had wild
imagination. Say you had guts enough to IMAGINE a man you really
would like to see in the White House: I mean would REALLY think
ought to be in the White House.
What would you DO ? Would you communicate your thought to your
neighbor ? What would he do ? What effect would it have on the
oncomin’ elections, 1942, 19447 Has anybody but the present speaker
had any such flight of poetic fancy dunn’ the past 20 years ? You can’t
tell me that Harding or Coolidge or any of ’em were chosen, nominated
because anybody really felt: well now, that is what we need in the White
House.
Wouldn’t that fellow just add to the American tradition ?
Well what about it ? What would happen IF every American over the
age of 21 suddenly voted for what he wanted ? I don’t mean, for just
what he felt to be the lesser evil, the less rotten apple ? Now just think a
minute; supposin’ you went down to Washington and walked up the
front path to the White House. What would you like to find sittin’ in a
rockin’ chair on the lawn, or find inside in a drawin’ room, to greet you
as the American President ?
Just what qualifications ought the fellow to have whom you would like
to find in there? Who would make you feel that his presence added, yes,
I say, added to the joy of bein’ alive ?
Yes, I know it is a vision. I never had it but once. Nobody ever told me
I was wrong; in fact nobody ever said while I was in America three years
ago, nobody said I was foolish, they just thought it impractical. They