So much I should have posted before now, but if I wait to get it in chronological order, I will never put anything on this blog. I have been listening to a book written in 1935 by Sinclair Lewis called "It can't happen here". It is about the U.S. becoming a totalitarian state. It was written, I think, with the intention of making people aware of what was happening in Europe and especially in Germany. It is amazingly prescient of what did happen in German only a few short years later. What struck me however, is how close the circumstances, both real and in the novel, resemble what is going on in the U.S. right now. Big business was being put down, government was touted as the wonderful solution, dissidents were ridiculed and laughed at, secret deals were made and their was a very charismatic leader. Does that sound somewhat familiar. I would encourage anyone interested in what is happening to our country to read this book and maybe reread Orwell's 1984.