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Screaming mobs at town hall meetings...right wingers tweeting their followers to bring guns to intimidate politicians...Sarah Palin claiming that the Obama health plan will result in "death panels" deciding whether her handicapped child will live or die...Shona Holmes lying about her medical condition...Glenn Beck calling the President a racist...James van Brunn shooting up the Holocaust Museum, George Sodini plotting to kill women in between racist pot shots at the President, Scott Roeder shooting George Tiller in a church...Michelle Bachmann urging people to resist answering the census next year...Obama getting thirty death threats a day...John Boehner cackling over Democrats having a "hot summer" thanks to all the Astroturfing activists whipping terrified men and women and children into a howling mob....
I first read this book when I was fifteen. It terrified me to the point where I haven't read it since. But it sensitized me to what has been going on in this country over the course of my lifetime, getting worse and worse whenever a Democrat or even a moderate Republican was in the White House.
It is happening here. Just as Sinclair Lewis predicted in 1935.
God help us all.
I first read this book when I was fifteen. It terrified me to the point where I haven't read it since. But it sensitized me to what has been going on in this country over the course of my lifetime, getting worse and worse whenever a Democrat or even a moderate Republican was in the White House.
It is happening here. Just as Sinclair Lewis predicted in 1935.
God help us all.
