LAST DITCH OF DEMOCRACY - Majority Rights

And then another 80 years: to the END, and absolute collapse of the
American system of government.
Can we revive it ?
Has the country got the guts for the climb ? Is there, as I am sayin’ this,
the faintest stirring of a desire INside the United States for any healthy
new structure ? Or are we the gadarine swine taken with collective
hysteria ? Are there ten men in America ready calmly to go back over
the events of the past few years, in America and in England ? Is there
the faintest stirring of American curiosity as to how a sane government
could be built up ? Or at any rate any nucleus or group ready to go back
and learn how we were built up from the beginning ?
Adams, Jefferson, and Van Buren to read and digest. You can’t talk it
over with me; because none of you can get to a radio. You can’t print
stuff like this in your papers, cause the newspapers are NOT there to
inform the people. You have got to talk to each other, you have got to
write letters one to another.
The texts and the guides you have got, that is, in a way you have got
’em, sprawled out, in big sets of unhandy volumes. Our publishers don’t
print handy compendiums. Your professors don’t analyze, that is, not
very much. I don’t know what has become of Claude Bowers. He did a
bit of digging about. You have a half-dozen historians but not all of ’em,
by any means, able to take out the facts and show how they hitch
together.
I dunno how you think you are going to assist in a war by a money
system which, as Jefferson already saw, “charges the public TWO
dollars for every dollar spent by the government,” just automatically and
independent of any particular grafting and swindling.
Thirty years war, 30 years paradise for Army contractors, may not be
what you voted for. In fact, Mr. Franklin D. Roosevelt on that score is