replace "Jews" with the added devout Christians. Put in some race and remove others and.... the story is a pretty good idea of where we're heading.
Has some amazing points about playing both sides of the liberal versus conservative battle. I'm thinking that those that are socially liberal but fiscally conservative will see how each side plays on your fears and hopes.
Of course none of the current administration has read this story and our public schools have eliminated any authors except those concerning global warming, American evil, famous gay/lesbian/transgender historical figures and of course...... how everything is Bush's fault.
Oh and Sarah Palin is stupid... or evil.... or too Christian...
...Beelzobama...
It Can't Happen Here is a semi-satirical political novel by Sinclair Lewis published in 1935. It features newspaperman Doremus Jessup struggling against the fascist regime of President Berzelius "Buzz" Windrip, who resembles Gerald B. Winrod, the Kansas evangelist whose far-right views earned him the nickname "The Jayhawk Nazi". It serves as a warning that political movements akin to Nazism can come to power in countries such as the United States when people blindly support their leaders.
In 1936, Lewis and John C. Moffit wrote a play version, also titled It Can't Happen Here, which is still produced. The stage version premiered on October 27, 1936 in several U.S. cities simultaneously, in productions sponsored by the Federal Theater Project.
A 1968 television movie, Shadow on the Land (alternate title: United States: It Can't Happen Here) was produced by Screen Gems as a pilot for a series loosely based on this book. At the time it was decried by critics (such as TV Guide's Cleveland Amory) as preposterous, since Americans would never allow the events and situations in the film to occur.
Inspired by the book, director–producer Kenneth Johnson wrote an adaptation titled Storm Warnings, in 1982. The script was presented to NBC, for production as a television mini-series, but the NBC executives rejected the initial version, claiming it was too 'cerebral' for the average American viewer. To make the script more marketable, the American fascists were re-cast as anthropophagic extraterrestrials, taking the story into the realm of science fiction. The new, re-cast story was the mini-series V, which premiered on May 3, 1983....
If TCM is going to show it, there must be some stealth conservatives at work there!