It Can't Happen Here

[Deja Q]

Anyone read that 1935 novel?

Thoughts?

Insights?

Parallels?

Lots of aluminum foil? :-)

[Turbineguy]

1. Years ago.

It was so simplistic. I thought it would never happen. But it has.

[Deja Q]

2. Simplstic by today's standards, anyway.

Personally, I think this country is not in a totally fascist state - but, and this is my observation, I think the groundwork is being laid for a fascist revolution to take place, in an attempt to keep the masses under control. But we're not a police state yet.

[sojourner]

5. Well, we're not under martial law yet....

But try to congregate or protest in public and see how the police/state reacts. I think we're closer than you realize.......

[newyawker99]

7. Hi soujourner!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[reprehensor]

3. Online texts...

It Can't Happen Here

related;

Jack London: The Iron Heel

[reprehensor]

4. Related articles.

It can totally happen here.

The Danger of American Fascism - Henry A. Wallace

The Ghost of Vice President Wallace Warns: "It Can Happen Here" - Thom Hartmann

[TroglodyteScholar]

6. Who could imagine?

Who could imagine
That they would freak out in washington, d.c.
a.c. d.c. a.c. d.c. a.c. d.c.
It can’t happen here
Ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba
It can’t happen here
It can’t happen here
Everybody’s safe and it can’t happen here

-Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, "Help, I'm a Rock"

[pauliedangerously]

8. I'm about a third of the way into it

There are certainly parallels...and attitudes haven't really changed all that much, have they? I'm at the brink of the election, and it looks as though Berzelius Windrip is going to win the election (gee...do you think? I mean there's enough fucking foreshadowing to choke a horse).

I gotta get ready for work.........

[Krupskaya]

9. Great book.

I'm rereading it right now.

[Turbineguy]

10. There was also a book called

The Sheep Look Up

Can't remember the author. This was 30 years ago.