(Yesterday, 04:14 PM)Labster Wrote: I think a lot of people naively think that if Democrats win by a landslide in November that they will be allowed to take office, but what if it turns out that the results of the election were corrupt, and the only way to save democracy is for the GOP to ban all opposition parties?
"In mid-August, President Windrip announced that, since all its aims were being accomplished, the League of Forgotten Men (founded by one Rev. Mr. Prang, who was mentioned in the proclamation only as a person in past history) was now terminated. So were all the older parties, Democratic, Republican, Farmer-Labor, or what not. There was to be only one: The American Corporate State and Patriotic Party--no! added the President, with something of his former good-humor: 'there are two parties, the Corporate and those who don't belong to any party at all, and so, to use a common phrase, are just out of luck!'"
-- Lewis, Sinclair. It Can't Happen Here. New York: Doubleday & Doran, 1935.