It can't happen here

Escrito en 1935, cuando fascismo no era una mala palabra sino una posible solución, si bien administrada, a las crisis económicas y morales. Si bien administrada, claro, porque era evidente que era una solución que podía descontrolarse. Pero no, eso nunca podría ocurrir. No aquí.

"The conspicuous fault of the Jeffersonian Party, like the personal fault of Senator Trowbridge, was that it represented integrity and reason, in a year when the electorate hungered for frisky emotions, for the peppery sensations associated, usually, not with monetary systems and taxation rates but with baptism by immersion in the creek".

"On a day in late October, the Corpos... arrested every known or faintly suspected criminal in the country. They were tried under court-martial procedure; one in ten was shot immediately... There were protests that at least six in ten had been innocent, but this was adequately answered by Windrip's courageous statement: 'The way to stop crime is to stop it!'"

"Then was revealed the New American Education, which, as Sarason so justly said, was to be ever so much newer than the New Educations of Germany, Italy, Poland, or even Turkey."

"As with all his colleagues, his professorship was taken over by a most worthy and needy white man, whose training in anthropology had been as photographer on one expedition to Yucatan."

"In his two years of dictatorship, Berzelius Windrip daily became more a miser of power. He continued to tell himself that his main ambition was to make all citizens healthy, in purse and mind, and that if he was brutal it was only toward fools and reactionaries who wanted the old clumsy systems."

Sinclair Lewis, It can't happen here (1935).