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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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Which political party represents your values?
Once again, I bring you startlingly au courant political delineation from Victorian England, specifically from Anthony Trollope’s 1880 novel, The Duke’s Children. In a conversation the Duke of Omnium, né Plantagenet Palliser, has with his 22-year old heir, Lord Silverbridge, … Continue reading
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Tagged Anthony Trollope, communism, conservatives, Duke of Omnium, liberals, radicalism, the Pallisers
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