Amazing how things remain the same...From "Main Street".

[JanMichael]

Taken from the Sinclair Lewis novel is this timeless exchange between the lead character Carol and her good Liberal friend Guy written in 1920:

Guy:

"See here, my dear, I certainly hope you don't class yourself with a lot of trouble-making labor-leaders! Democracy is all right theoretically, and I'll admit there are industrial injustices, but I'd rather have them than see the world reduced to a dead level of mediocrity. I refuse to believe that you have anything in common with a lot of laboring men rowing for bigger wages so that they can buy wretched flivvers and hideous player-pianos and----"

The author, or Carol's internal voice, waxing poetic:

"At this second, in Buenos Ayres, a newspaper editor broke his routine of being bored by exchanges to assert, "Any injustice is better than seeing the world reduced to a gray level of scientific dullness." At this second a clerk standing at the bar of a New York saloon stopped milling his secret fear of his nagging office-manager long enough to growl at the chauffeur beside him, "Aw, you socialists make me sick! I'm an individualist. I ain't going to be nagged by no bureaus and take orders off labor-leaders. And mean to say a hobo's as good as you and me?""

Fascinating. Sounds like the same stuff you hear today.

At this second the same damned things are probably still being uttered.

[GainesT1958]

1. Count on it...

For a party that says it so badly wants to disprove Darwin, the Repubs suuure do espouse that "Social Darwinism" thing! :eyes:

And, ironically, Lewis wrote this in 1920, the year America passed up on James Cox, who reflected Woodrow Wilson's dreams, to put in office...Warren Harding, the SECOND dumbest president after Dub!

B-)

[JanMichael]

2. For clarification the quote was "Guy" a Dem.

You're right about the IRONY in this book, it's absolutely phenominal.

It reads like it was written just a couple of years ago minus the mindnumbing TV.

[JanMichael]

3. Self indulgent kick.

:kick: