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Pathological pessimism: “Everything is going wrong.”
It may always be observed that when hunting-men speak seriously of their sport, they speak despondingly. Everything is going wrong. Perhaps the same thing may be remarked in other pursuits. Farmers are generally on the verge of ruin. Trade is … Continue reading
Posted in The Facts of Life
Tagged Anthony Trollope, House of Lords
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Can you name this politician and his political party?
What follows should ring bells in everyone’s head. Many eternal truths within: [He] was a fluent speaker, and when there was nothing to be said was possessed of great plenty of words. And he was gifted with that peculiar power … Continue reading
Posted in Government, Politics, Propaganda, The Facts of Life
Tagged Anthony Trollope, conservative politicians
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“…organized depravity”
“I doubt whether from the beginning of the world until now, a community, nominally civilized, has been so fully under the domination of systematic and organized depravity…the most atrocious organization that the civilized part of the world has ever known.” … Continue reading
Posted in Fascism, Racism, The Facts of Life, Trumpism, voting rights
Tagged Amos T Akerman, Anthony Trollope, Attorney General of the United States, Department of Justice, Ku Klux Klan, Philneas Finn, Ron Chernow, the Pallisers, US Grant
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