Posted on 04/09/2010 6:52:27 AM PDT by Dudoight
It Can't Happen Here was a best-selling satirical political novel by Sinclair Lewis published in 1935. It aroused considerable controversy when published and in the years leading up to World War II. The plot featured the account of a crusading newspaperman Doremus Jessup, struggling against the newly elected fascist regime of President Berzelius "Buzz" Windrip, a populist leader whom some observers on the political Right assumed was a parody of FDR while others, particularly on the political Left rejected the possibility that a popular leader of the Democratic Party could possibly lead the country into a Fascist regime.
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***It Can’t Happen Here was a best-selling satirical political novel by Sinclair Lewis published in 1935.***
Made into a 1968 TV movie...SHADDOW ON THE LAND
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063589/
i will have to check and see if NETFLIX has it!
Thanks!
Netflix doesn’t have it. Darn!
BTTT
When my son returned from Iraq we talked about what he’d learned. He said the thing that stood out to him- was that he never grasped the significance of freedom until he went to war. Since then he’s said countless times- we just don’t know what we’ve got here- we don’t cherish our liberty.
Freedom’s just another word for nothin’left to lose. (Janis Joplin)
Absolutely
“Since then hes said countless times- we just dont know what weve got here- we dont cherish our liberty.”
It’s people like your son that are the best hope for America.
I was lucky, no one was shooting at me when I was in the service. But, when I joined the Navy, it was a different time. They didn’t let you out if you didn’t like it, or it wasn’t a good fit, etc. Once you were in, you were in. That gave me a taste of what it’s like to lose a measure of freedom.
I also know I’ll survive much better than lefties in a totalitarian society. But I won’t like it.
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