Annie Appleby is a #Sociologist from #UCBerkeley. A Pioneer of #Yoga. The Founder of YogaForce®, YogaForce Media & Doga. Verified. Just check the Link.
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Turn it back into Normal Times. 20 years ago, no one cared about blue or red, just all Americans. Hope it does not take 20 more years. CRAZY TIMES WE ARE LIVING IN.
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Do you think they preemptively removed the ketchup from the White House or does it currently look like a crime scene?
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BREAKING: DEMOCRATS WIN CONTROL OF THE U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
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Gabby Williams says Michael Jordan texted her to congratulate her on winning a championship.
Jordan told Williams to “stay hungry."
She responded “I’ve never been hungrier.”
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Of Course.
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Read.
The year is 1936. A charismatic politician named Buzz Windrip runs for president. He promises to make America great again. He rails against the press, the intellectuals, the weak politicians who sold the country out. He talks about restoring honor, putting people back to work, cleaning house. People love him. They pack rallies. They chant his name. And when he wins, he immediately suspends Congress, declares martial law, and starts putting his opponents in camps.
Sinclair Lewis wrote this in 1935. He was watching Hitler rise in Germany, Mussolini in Italy, and he thought: what if it happened here? So, he wrote a novel about it. It's not subtle. It's not subtle at all. It's a warning shot fired directly at the American reader, and it lands.
The main character is Doremus Jessup, a newspaper editor in a small Vermont town. He's middle-aged, cranky, skeptical. He doesn't take Windrip seriously at first. Nobody does. Then the Constitution gets suspended. Then his newspaper gets shut down. Then his friends start disappearing. Then his daughter joins the fascist youth movement because it's exciting and her boyfriend is in it. And Doremus has to decide whether to keep his head down or fight back.
The book follows the rise of the American fascist state over several years. Windrip's cronies take over. The paramilitaries roam the streets. The camps fill up. The people who said "it can't happen here" say "well, maybe it's not so bad" or "we just have to wait it out" or "he's not targeting me." Lewis shows you how it happens slowly, legally, with applause from the crowd.
It's not a great novel in the literary sense. The prose is clunky. The characters are sometimes cartoonish. Lewis was in a rage when he wrote it, and it shows. But that's also why it works. It's a book written by a man who saw something coming and tried to scream loud enough to wake people up.
BOOK: amzn.to/4grgX2t
