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IT CAN?T HAPPEN HERE IBD

SINCLAIR LEWIS
SUZETEO ENTERPRISES
09 / 2022
9781645941644
Inglés

Sinopsis

It CanâÇÖt Happen Here. Are we so sure?áMany would suggest that it certainly could happen âÇÖhere,âÇÖ which is precisely the point that Sinclair Lewis was making when he wrote this book in 1935. This, incidentally, was still a few years before the worst fears would unfold in Germany, giving the book a somewhat prophetic flair.áBased on the American Democrat, Huey Long, it has been, despite that, often been associated with âÇÖright wingâÇÖ movements. This is ironic, as only a few years later it would be the Democrat FDR that would put American-Japanese citizens into concentration camps using âÇÖemergency powers,âÇÖ much as the bookâÇÖs protagonist, Berzelius Windrip, was portrayed as doing, after beating FDR in 1936. áIn case you miss the irony: the real-life FDR actually did what the fictional Windrip was portrayed as doing!The long history of abandoning civil rights using emergency powers was reprised more recently during the COVID pandemic, when Western nations and individual US states, ostensibly âÇÖdemocracies,âÇÖ nonetheless invoked emergency powers to enact all sorts of authoritarian measures.Thus, when pondering whether or not âÇÖit can happen hereâÇÖ (which all assume it can) we are perhaps left with a more intriguing question:áWhy hasnâÇÖt it happened here?áAnd then, once this has been answered, work to ensure that the factors that have prevented a full-blown authoritarian regime from materializing in the United States are retained and strengthened.

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