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Certainly I'm not going to read the whole thing, but let me give you a taste of it: He said, "after the election of 1936, I was told and Congress was told by an increasing number of politically and worldly-wise people that I should coast along and join easy presidency for four years and not take the Democratic platform too seriously."
"They told me that the people were getting weary of reform through political effort and would no longer oppose that small minority, which, in spite of its own disastrous leadership in 1929, is always eager to resume its control over the government of the United States."
"Never in our lifetime has such a concerted campaign of defeatism been thrown at the heads of the president and the senators and congressmen as in the case of this 75th Congress."
He had gotten a lot of his New Deal through.
Once he threatened the Supreme Court, many of the senior members started retiring, replaced with his appointees.
But he was now being blocked by several of the more moderate senators, Democrats in Congress, who said, "we understand why you're trying to address the Depression. We're not all in for this socialist stuff."
He says, "never before have so many copperheads..."
What's a copperhead?
During the Civil War, these were northern Democrats who sided with, not the South, but with bringing the Civil War to a quick conclusion.
They opposed war, anti-war.
They opposed the warmongers who were trying to win the Civil War.
And they turned on Lincoln, and they wanted to negotiate peace with the Confederacy.
See, we've been through a lot of these things before, whether it's World War II, the Civil War, and now the war with Iran.
We've had the so-called anti-war types who don't want victory.
And so you don't get victory.
So he complains about them.
He says, "this Congress has ended on the side of the people. My faith in the American people and their faith in themselves have been justified. And I congratulate the Congress and the leadership thereof. And I congratulate the American people on their own staying power."
So he slaps them around and then pats them on the head.
And he does this in a lot of his speeches.
He goes on: "following out this line of thought. I want to say a few words about the coming political primaries."
Here we get to the gist of it.
"Fifty years ago, party nominations were generally made in conventions, a system typified in the public imagination by a little group in smoke filled room who made out the party states. The direct primary was invented to make the nominating process a more democratic one. To give the party voters themselves a chance to pick their party candidates."
He goes on: "an election cannot give the country a firm sense of direction if it has two or more national parties which merely
have different names, but are as alike in their principles and names as peas in the same pod."
In other words, "the uniparty."
The radicals always talk about the uniparty.
Whether they're the woke reich, R-E-I-C-H, the Islamists or the Marxists, or just kooks.
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