Posted on 01/14/2021 4:17:33 AM PST by MtnClimber
"It Can't Happen Here" was a successful novel by Sinclair Lewis, written as a warning to Americans that their nation could easily follow the path of Weimar Germany.
It Can't Happen Here chronicles the fictional devolution of America into a rightwing fascist hellhole via the election of an unscrupulous demagogue as President. Lewis, of course, wrote his book as a warning to Americans that their nation could easily follow the path of Weimar Germany where Hitler and his Brownshirts threatened and manipulated their way to power in a shamed, defeated, and angry nation.
This unhappy novel was resurrected by the always imaginative American left with the election of Donald Trump in 2016, where Trump was depicted as the lying demagogue and his voters as the crypto-fascist, racist cellar dwellers who were being brought to power with him. Trump's call for a reemergence of American spirit and greatness after decades of denigration and retreat, sellout and hollowing out by a succession of Democrat and Republican administrations, was drawn as a parallel to the revanchist rhetoric and plans of Hitler.
What a handy trope this was to galvanize the stunned American left as it, along with that paragon of personal revanchism, Hillary Clinton, struggled to explain their electoral loss to the capitalist Orange Man. They did what the left has always done to denigrate its opponents: Insult and attack them as cruel monsters, Nazis, Fascists, murderers, and exploiters.
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I think it just gets worse from here. We have not seen anything yet.
I highly recommend Sinclair Lewis as an author. Elmer Gantry is a great insight into how manipulators weasel themselves into trusted positions.
“We have not seen anything yet.”
Looks like The Rats are tying up all loose ends with The Prez supporters and 1st and 2nd amendments, even before the inauguration.
It amazes me that people don’t trust Trump.
I don't fully trust any politician (and yes, Trump is a politician). It's part and parcel of being a small government conservative.
I’ve read the book a few times and often wondered why it wasn’t made into a movie
Socialism was the new evangelism among mid-nineteenth century Progressive 'Christians.' They were the first modern and/or liberal Christians who were really pantheists calling themselves Christian. They had rejected Jesus Christ and heaven in favor of an earthly heaven on earth engineered by themselves. Their earthly heaven was socialism and these ideas were propagated within America mainly by the Fabians. They were also heavily involved in all things occult just as their contemporary counterparts are.
Much later Hitler embraced Socialism. He saw it as a twin of Marxist Communism, except of course it was deeply involved with the occult.
The hypocrisy of Socialist Democrats and Rhino Republicans calling President Trump and conservatives fascists is either due to gross ignorance of historical research or else just more of their demonic mendacity. Perhaps it's both.
Or some of it could just be projection.
Ignorance of history is a trait of our adults under the age of 40. Satan takes advantage of their ignorance.
Democratz like pie who among you will deny? And now all the pie is ours they cried as you and I were left to die. But all the pie was not enough, and their eyes turned to each other’s stuff. They turned upon themselves you see, after they were through with you and me. I have one slice and you have three so you must give a slice to me. I think not said he with three, I worked thrice as hard, and pie ain’t free. But there’s more of us than there are of ye, so we’ll just help ourselves and take all three and you must die from lack of pie so we can have equality. And so the revolution turned, full circle came and no one learned.
Why do neverTrumpers reveal themselves so much by projection? Tucker Carlson pointed their projection out 4 years ago.
Thanx for sending. Very very clever and accurate!
Agreed. Anytime someone refers to fascists as being right-wingers, I automatically discount their statement.
Fascism, like all forms of leftist government, requires a strong, central government.
Right-wing, means no government at all which leaves the ultimate power with the people.
Just to be clear, the unscrupulous demagogue is not the Donald. We merely delayed it by avoiding Hillary. Now, the time has come.
Well, he IS a professional politician but not a lifelong one. If your point is that he is more trustworthy than your typical Dem, I would agree. But as a small government conservative, it’s not in my nature to completely trust ANY politician (by nature I am skeptical of ALL of them) and certainly refuse to idolize any of them.
It is definitely happening. If Trump were not President we would be headed for a bloody civil war. President Trump is letting these snarling criminal commies unmask and tell us all what they have planned for us. He is allowing this to go on long enough so that the average person will be horrified. The reason for that is so we never forget and are accepting of the harsh solution to end this insanity.
50,000 heavily armed troops are swarming into Wash DC and troops are being positioned in other hotspots around the country. Its not for the virtual inauguration folks.
Bkmk
Not an expert on copyright laws. Surprised no one has bothered to list a few sources. Available as free downloads here:
http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3659/it-can-t-happen-here
http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0301001h.html
https://freeditorial.com/en/books/it-can-t-happen-here
https://www.pdfdrive.com/it-cant-happen-here-e194626384.html
with thesis review here:
https://unipub.uni-graz.at/obvugrhs/content/titleinfo/4959567/full.pdf
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