Saturday, February 10, 2018

Prescient words spoken in 1935 and 1938 have become an accomplished truth today

In a quote by someone unknown but often and erroneously attributed to Sinclair Lewis, the words strike into our heart as an accomplished truth in the present day: "When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and waving a cross."  

And so it has come to pass.  Other similar words of warning were spoken in the 1930s and ring with complete relevance today:  

"It is a peculiarity of the development of American fascism that at the present stage it comes forward principally in the guise of an opposition to fascism, which it accuses of being an "un-American" trend imported from abroad." – Georgi Dimitrov, in his report delivered at the Seventh World Congress of the Communist International in 1935.

"When and if fascism comes to America it will not be labeled 'made in Germany'; it will not be marked with a swastika; it will not even be called fascism; it will be called, of course, 'Americanism'" – An uncredited New York Times reporter covering Halford E. Luccock in an article published September 12, 1938.

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