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Home Front: Politix
It can't happen here? It is happening here!
2021-07-29
[American Thinker] Sinclair Lewis's novel of 1935, It Can't Happen Here, was published amid the rise of fascism in Europe. The book is about the political career of fictional Buzz Windrip, who is elected president in 1936, defeating FDR with a campaign promising a return to traditional values and drastic social and economic reforms (he promises every American $5K). Once elected, he becomes a totalitarian tyrant, complete with his own paramilitary force called the Minute Men!

Windrip is Lewis's version of an American Hitler and/or Mussolini. But consider the parallels with the current occupant of the Oval Office. Windrip outlaws dissent (consider the Biden administration's partnership with Big Tech to censor opposing opinions). He, Windrip, imprisons his critics just as Biden has jailed anyone present at the Capitol on January 6. Biden has his own Minute Men, the FBI, as well as a couple of other paramilitary groups in service of his agenda — Antifa and BLM. They are his shock troops, who, like Windrip's thugs, terrorize his opponents, freedom-loving, independent thinking Americans.

Like Biden, Buzz Windrip abrogated the rights of civilians and divided the nation into "administrative sectors" to be managed by federal "Corpo" authorities and enforced by his Minute Men. Pelosi is now installing branches of the Capitol Police throughout the country to seek out perceived threats to members of Congress. The similarities to Lewis's two-dimensional dictator and the Biden regime are chilling.

As in the novel, opponents of the Obama/Biden regime have been found guilty until proven innocent of un-committed crimes, from Gen. Michael Flynn to Roger Stone to anyone who worked for Trump to the 1/6 protesters, by corrupt judges in kangaroo courts whipped up by a manic, historically ignorant media establishment whose members loathe anyone or anything remotely conservative or constitutional. Viciously opposed to Donald Trump, the mainstream media covered for the massive crimes against the nation that were occurring from the day Trump became the Republican presidential candidate. The left invented the Russia collusion narrative out of thin air. It was pursued as legitimate by the FBI, the DOJ, the CIA, and our despicable journalist class. All of them likely knew it was false from the outset, but they all colluded to damage a president who actually meant to represent the people, not just the ruling elite. The swamp, left and right, was threatened and fought back with the ferocity of a cornered animal. With the 2020 election, they think they've won, but have they?

This quote from Lewis's book perfectly describes Joe Biden:
Posted by:Besoeker

#5  Capitol Police ordered to arrest staff and visitors not wearing masks after new House mandate
Posted by: Skidmark   2021-07-29 11:35  

#4  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Don't feed the TROLL!
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839   2021-07-29 10:13  

#3  I'd like to say I have no problem with what people today call tyranny. In the right hands. I would that the Republicans had done exactly what the Left is doing today, decades ago.

No, there would be a difference, for those saying 'then we'd be the same as them!'

The principal error of self-righteous conservatives has always been the inability to pick a side and stick with it until dominion is theirs. [pun unintended]
Posted by: Dron66046   2021-07-29 03:55  

#2  But you are winning the fight against the masks - and that's what counts!
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2021-07-29 02:14  

#1  Oh it's happening sweetheart
Posted by: Rex Mundi   2021-07-29 02:02  

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