LAST DITCH OF DEMOCRACY - Majority Rights

that fact needs no comment whatever. I’ve been accused in these talks
but, if anyone has seriously answered any of my statements, they have
been unable to do so in any form that reaches me. Well, I ask my
compatriots of my own age to note that the very high percentage of
articles printed in
American magazines contains a joker, that is a silent point, a basically
false assumption. I don’t mean they all contain the same false
assumption. I point k out that there is no public medium in the United
States for serious discussion.
Every [one?] of these publications has subjects which its policy forbids
it to mention or to mention without falsification. And I ask the men in
my generation to consider the effects, the cumulative effect of this state
of things which does not date from September, 1941, but has been going
on ever since we can remember.
The progressive falsification of America has been going on for 80 years
at least and we have lived through half of it. I mean as conscious
leaders, we have had 40 years of ill-intentional and of semi-conscious
befuddlement to contend with and it is time to come to the cumulative
effect of that profit.
Baruch, Berle, Best?—to take three names starred in American publicity,
one pronouncement and two headlined articles are before me. All of
these men writing and speaking with authority of a sort official
positions, dominant in national affairs and with such views that no man
under 40 can possibly untangle their cobwebs.
In normal times, qualified readers wouldn’t try. They would let it go at
that. They would be busy on constructive work. The old are indifferent,
the experienced are indifferent and a cautious son of a New York editor,
now in his 70th year, I mean the son in his 70th year, remembered his
father’s— —. He shrugged his shoulders, or did when I saw him last