In a February 12 , 1923 Bridgeport Telegram ( Bridgeport , Connecticut ) articleCordell Hull , Chairman of the Democratic National Committee , bet on the endurance of the Americantwo - party arrangement . That was n’t a surprising prognostication . What is pretty surprising is that the assumed alternative was a one - party system .
The principle of democracy being everlasting , they will necessarily exist a hundred years from now , and the achievements of administration , through the diligence of those principles to changing conditions , will logically be greater than they have been in the last 100 years .
That there will be two political parties then as now seems almost inevitable , if progress is to continue . It is scarcely imaginable that human nature can change in one century sufficiently for all to think alike . In such an event there would also be danger of inactiveness – and inertia would mark the showtime of decadence .
popular government means a cracking dissemination of superpower , less restriction of the individual and therefore less regulation by laws . With the development of intelligence social class difference and distinctions should vanish , therefore the representative legislative body of the people , if there are more than one , would be sincerely representative bodies of all the people .
With a continuance of the uncovering of science , their the States and software , and a more general acceptance of the fundamental moralities of Christianity I should say that the world , and the United States in particular will be a pretty good place to live in 2022 .
See also : Thinking Men and Women Predict Problems of World Century Hence ( 1923)Governor Knight and the Videophone ( Oakland Tribune , 1955)Hubert H. Humphrey ’s Future ( 1967)Hubert H. Humphrey ’s class 2000 ( 1967 )
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