Reply #26: Sinclair Lewis was prescient.....

[BrklynLiberal]

“When Fascism Comes to America, it will be Wrapped in the American Flag and Carrying a Cross.”


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When we think of fascism, we automatically think about Adolf Hitler,
Benito Mussolini and Josef Stalin. All of them were dictators. But
we don't think about fascism coming to America, in a different
disguise. And that's what I felt when I read Tim Wise's piece, "This
is How Fascism Comes: Reflections on the Cost of Silence." Hat Tip to
SleptOn Magazine:

If fascism comes it will be interviewed, lovingly, on talk radio, by
hosts whose cerebral inadequacies are more than made up for by their
bellicosity, their bombast, their willingness to shout down those with
whom they cannot argue, for argument requires knowledge, and this is a
commodity with which they have not even a passing familiarity.

If fascism comes it will come wrapped in red,white and blue, carrying
a crucifix and a shotgun, projecting its own sexual confusion and
insecurity onto others, substituting volume for veracity and rage for
reason, and landing on the New York Times best-seller list as a
result.

If fascism comes it will have a pajama party at Ann Coulter's house,
pop pills with Rush Limbaugh, and go gay-bashing with Michael Savage,
all in the same weekend. And it will refuse to learn another language
or get a passport, because doing either of those would make one
cosmopolitan-which is just another word for "***."
Go read the rest of it...and don't sleep on. Let me know what you think
about this article...or if Orwell and Lewis were right?