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Escurumbele

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10. "It Can't Happen Here", Sinclair Lewis- I recommend this book to everyone, it should be mandatory reading in High School
Mon Mar 31, 2025, 02:52 PM
Mar 2025

There is also a book "It Can Happen Here: White Power and the Rising Threat of Genocide in the US".

Not believing that it CAN happen here is nothing more than people keeping their guards down, which is a mistake.

A friend from Venezuela was with his wife at a Venezuelan beach. This was before Hugo Chavez became president, it was during his campaign.

They met two Cuban women who lived in Miami but were vacationing in Venezuela, they started talking, and Hugo Chavez became a topic. The Cuban women told my cousin and his wife that Chavez was a Fidel Castro disguised as something else, and that Venezuelans were drinking the Kool-Aid on the guy, and if Chavez became president Venezuela would fall under a communist/dictatorship regime.

What was my cousin's response? "It Can't Happen Here", but it did.

I am very concerned that Democrats and the military have their guards down, the danger being that this wannabe-regime, if they gain more power, will begin replacing the brass at the military with loyal incompetents to get a hold of the military power, it happens in every country where a wannabe-dictator is in the process of becoming a dictator, which by all means is what the USA is living today. If these people do not start doing things to curtail the atrocities that are being committed as we speak, things are going to get out of everyone's hands and "It Will Happen Here" as well.

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