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Show : r THE MAJORITY SHOULD ORGANIZE The development of politics in the United States has reached the point where practically every minority minor-ity is militantly aggressive, thus forcing office-holders to pay particular attention to them in order to capture a minority vote. This is a strange situation. The majority, in most electoral districts, is not as well organized orga-nized as the aggressive minorities and, conse- i quently, what it thinks and what it wants often fails to receive as much attention as the vociferous vocifer-ous demands of the minorities. This is a distinct danger to the successful operation opera-tion of the Government of the United States. Eventually, Even-tually, the vast majority of Americans will become tired of the successful strategy of the organized minorities. mi-norities. Then the majority will organize itself and the prospects of the minorities will be bad. It is important that minorities understand that most of the rights, privileges and opportunities opportun-ities come to them through the tolerance of the majority. In few countries of the world can one find a situation where the majority is persistently persistent-ly heckled and criticized by minorities which enjoy equal, and sometimes, superior rights. There are congressmen in the United States who dare not take any position that conflicts with the prejudices or desires of minorities that are, to say the least, not thoroughly American. Large districts in Northern and Western States contain huge foreign-born populations. Some of these people have had no training whatever what-ever in democracy and many of them are not concerned with the American system of Government. Govern-ment. They want results and they are organizing politically to get them. Of course, if the majority should organize and seek to play a dominant role in the management of American political affairs, the cry would instantly be heard that the majority was intolerant. Certainly this is foolishness. It can hardly be tolerant for minorities to organize and aggressively assert themselves and intolerant for a majority to do the same thing. |