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To: SilentServiceCPOWife
I'm guessing that it's "Looking Backward" by Edward Bellamy. I bought it recently and the date 1887 reminded me of it. I haven't read anything beyond the introduction and I don't know if I want to continue. The introduction itself is stomach-turning.

You are correct. But oddly enough, I didn't find it stomach truning at all. Reading this utterly, fantastically naive utopian novel and comparing its futuristic vision of an ideal American government-run society in the year 2000 with the reality of the past century was an experience in pure schadenfreude for me.

I think every Freeper should read it, and that we should never stop beating modern Progressive Democrats over the head with it.

Getting this book back in front of the public consciousness as the intellectual root of modern American progressivism will go a long way towards humiliating and destroying the entire Democratic Party agenda.

11 posted on 03/05/2005 11:47:12 AM PST by Maceman (Too nuanced for a bumper sticker)
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To: Maceman

"...humiliating and destroying the entire Democratic Party agenda."

Verily, verily, that is what we crave!


12 posted on 03/05/2005 11:51:36 AM PST by jocon307 (Vote George Washington for the #1 spot)
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To: Maceman

Since you recommend it so highly, I will give it another try. I just found it nauseating because we hear the same things coming out of the mouths of modern liberals every day.


15 posted on 03/05/2005 12:06:35 PM PST by SilentServiceCPOWife (Romeo&Juliet, Troilus&Crisedye, Bogey&Bacall, Gable&Lombard, Brigitte&Flav)
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To: Maceman

Did you know that Edward Bellamy's cousin, also a socialist, wrote the Pledge of Allegiance?


19 posted on 03/05/2005 12:11:54 PM PST by SilentServiceCPOWife (Romeo&Juliet, Troilus&Crisedye, Bogey&Bacall, Gable&Lombard, Brigitte&Flav)
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