Quote from the Handmaid's Tale:

[ZRT2209]

That was when they suspended the Constitution. They said it would be temporary. There wasn't even any rioting in the streets. People stayed home at night, watching television, looking for some direction. There wasn't even an enemy you could put your finger on.

Look out, said Moira to me, over the phone. Here it comes.

Here what comes? I said.

You wait, she said. They've been building up to this. It's you and me up against the wall, baby. She was quoting an expression of my mother's, but she wasn't intending to be funny.

The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood

[woo me with science]

1. K&R The Constitution is absolutely under assault, right along with

the 99 percent.

This is a watershed, absolutely non-partisan issue. It affects every single American citizen.

They are attempting to normalize the step-by-step elimination of the Constitution.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022981711

NSA memo pushed to 'rethink' 4th Amendment
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022984470

Don't entertain this garbage.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022981567

[appal_jack]

2. k&r, n/t.

[Babel_17]

3. Order trying to dominate Chaos

The results are inevitable and, ironically, somewhat predictable. It might not be fun for many to live through them.

[cascadiance]

4. Not holding the previous administration accountable to violating our constitution was "temporary"...

... too I guess!

Nancy, why didn't you impeach the bum and get an investigation going that perhaps could have stopped some of the unconstitutional abuse earlier!

My earlier photoshop on this topic seems to fit here...

[Fire Walk With Me]

7. Impeachement's not on the table!

[Egalitarian Thug]

8. Well done and right on target. n/t

[Iris]

5. omg.

chilling

[Fire Walk With Me]

6. Bravo! K&R!

[AzDar]

9. K & R

[DissidentVoice]

10. That novel/movie was prophetic in so many ways.

Another one was "The R Document" by Irving Wallace.

http://books.google.com/books/about/The_R_document.html?id=1A7JRXsWhwQC

I read that as a kid in the '70s and it scared the shit out of me then.

It's worse now that so much of it has come true.

[MisterP]

12. may I also recommend "The Sheep Look Up"

[Babel_17]

19. Remember what Brunner predicted about organic food?

It's been over twenty five years so my memory is hazy but IIRC he predicted that the people would want clean food and that a big corporation would eventually dominate the business. The big scandal was that the USA was so polluted that this corporation could never manage to acquire the amount of clean food they needed to stock their shelves. This did not deter them, however.

The novel ends with a quote that sticks with you.

P.S. What was the name of that company, do you recall?

[MisterP]

21. Whole Foods?

[Babel_17]

27. Puritan Health Supermarkets, it would seem (nt)

[MisterP]

28. kidding aside, I think it was "Pilgrim's Pride" (unless that was the one that kept it clean)

[Babel_17]

29. I looked it up

The name comes up a lot.

[Scootaloo]

13. Try Trevor Hoyle's "The Last Gasp" n/t

[randome]

14. Jesus Christ, I'm reading that now!

Haven't read it since it was first published. The writing isn't the greatest -the women are always described with full breasts and they always get coffee for their man- but in general it's scary that so little regarding Climate Change has occurred.

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[Scootaloo]

16. Yeah, it's pretty dated

and goes go off the deep end here and there... but still the bulk of the book is pretty sharp. What struck me was the poisoning of the "third world" - and its modern equivalents in waste dumping and agricorp monopolies

[Mnemosyne]

11. nt

[Fuddnik]

15. Quote from Nixon's former AG, John Mitchell, as they led him off to jail.

"This country is going to move so far to the right, you won't be able to recognize it".

Who knew he he was a prophet?

Because I sure as hell don't recognize it any more.

[HockeyMom]

17. Male dominance over women

So many of us older women, who fought this years ago, have seen it coming. They like to cloak it in terms of "culture wars" and use religion (Bible specifically) as a crutch to justify it. Chip away here. Chip away there. If they cannot do it in one fell swoop, legislate it in bits and pieces until nothing is left. The majority of young women just take all their rights they have now have for granted. Unless they wake up to what is happening, they will find one day there is nothing left. I tell my own daughters this all the time. For my younger, married daughter it goes in one ear and out the other. Not so with my older lesbian daughter because she has experienced herself what it means to be a second class citizen.

We MUST wake up the younger generation of women.

[Zorra]

18. DUrec. The Handmaid's Tale is one of the most frightening novels I have ever read.

[Aerows]

24. It was the cutting off of hands part

that fucked me up completely.

[malaise]

20. K & R

Great post

[Aerows]

23. Right is fugging right

.

[Aerows]

22. Predicted to a tee

and those that choose to remain blind of the dangers of a police state deserve what they get. The rest of us, though, do not.

[CrispyQ]

25. I've read that twice & just checked it out again.

I'm into my second reading of "Oryx & Crake" & finished "The Year of the Flood" before that. Her worlds are a real possibility.

There wasn't even any rioting in the streets.

[MotherPetrie]

26. K&R. One of the most prescient books I've ever read.