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President Franklin Delano Roosevelt is pictured here, giving one of his famous radio addresses to the American people. These speeches became popularly known as “fireside chats.” He would speak to the nation about his New Deal, unemployment, and U.S. involvement in World War II.
(Photo: Library of Congress)
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So many of the tools the media uses to channel our votes into MIC-approved candidates revolve around this-or-that politician’s cult of personality and treating the Republicans and Democrats like rival sports teams that I’m half convinced that if we slaughtered the entire political class tomorrow and agreed to do all legislation via referendum from now on, we would have a functional society inside of six months.
That or we’d go the way of ancient Athens, of course, but hell–if we can slaughter one political class, we can slaughter another one.
