LAST DITCH OF DEMOCRACY - Majority Rights

Is it too late to inquire, is inquiry become impolite and unYankee? And
what races coalesce or amalgamate? What races can dwell together
without constantly inciting other races to start fraternal slaughter, and
civil assassination?
The Welsh didn’t spend 800 years trying to get English and Scotch to
murder each other. The Irish refused to forget their race for hundreds of
years, but they weren’t continually fomenting internal warfare in
England, no third race was at the bottom of even the Wars of the Roses.
English, Scotch, Irish and few minorities made the American colonies.
Germans, and Italians came in without causing civil slaughter. If the
American intelligentzia ever THOUGHT about anything, these facts
would enter the mental range.
[The] point I took up the other night might do with an emphasis. Also
my curiosity; WHY does the intelligent American, the bright lad who
CAN write, but doesn’t, why does such a man take it as a matter of
course that to earn his living he has to hide his intelligence and work for
some blob-headed vulgarian SLOB?
Whence comes this superstition that the worst pays and the better
doesn’t and that the BEST is impossible; that America has NO place at
all for the best, despite the American instinct [of] knowin’ the best, and
insistin’ on having it, the minute they are in position to get it? No other
race on earth [is] so almost fanatical on wantin’ maximum, up to what
they know. And then the refinement, the flair in some of these Americans
who get over to Europe. Of course they may be exceptions, but I have
known cases, I don’t mean persons of genius, but people of moderate
mental energy, and with that funny little flair for the best. How do you
figure along with this, the acceptance of being bossed by pigheads, by
almost inhuman objects; the equivalents of Litvinovs and Maiskys at the
head of big industry, big radio corporations, the [whores?] of the
Hollywood ghetto? What is there in the ruck end of the American era
that makes Americans stand it?