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WannaJumpMyScooter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-04-04 01:33 AM
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Just finished re-reading "It can't happen here" by Sinclair Lewis
some good quotes from it...

Of course, in this age of deliberate, planned propaganda, a really modern government like theirs must figure out what brand of war they had to sell and plan the selling-campaign consciously.

and

He saw that he, who had thought of himself as a capitalist because he could hire and fire, and because theoretically he “owned his business,” had been as helpless as helpless as the most itinerant janitor, once it seemed worth while to the Big Business which Corpoism represented to get rid of him.


Awesome book. Amazing how much fresher it is now than it was during the 70's.
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