By Hale Porter Los Angeles
(Re: “Exposing Bush’s Orwellian reality,” opinion, July 19) (Bennet Kelley) quotes George Orwell’s “1984,” as do most other modern political observers. When I was in high school during WWII, my history teacher insisted that, with our system of checks & balances, totalitarian governments like Germany and Italy were impossible here in the U.S.
Is there no one out there who remembers, as I do, a novel in 1937 by Sinclair Lewis titled “It Can’t Happen Here”? Not only can it happen here, it is... now!
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on July 24, 2007. Read the original PDF.