A subtle but I hope effective strategy at CBS News
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For a week or more they have been telling the stories of women who excelled, black peoplle some refugees from ware toron counntries with stories about how they overcame great difficulties in life to be “a credit to society. Edit- They are also doing stories on Jewish Holocaust survivors and descendants.
It reminds me of the novel by Robert Heinlein, “Revolt in 2100.” The US was under the totalitarian thumb of a televangelist, Nehemiah Scudder. The opposition was in the Lodge. One of the things they did was to put our stories thatt on the surface would be praising the powers that be, but they used words that had a “negative index.” While what CBS iis doing is emphasizing the positive of people that the MAGAts hate. I doubt it will change their cult worm ridden brains but, there are many people who are not tRUMP supporters to their core.
Don’t how well it will work, but it is heartening to see and hear.
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to Robert Heinlein. I should reread it.
At the 2016 WorldCon the story won the 1941 Retro-Hugo Award for Best Novella of 1940.[1]
Plot
The story is set in a future theocratic American society, ruled by the latest in a series of fundamentalist Christian "Prophets." The First Prophet was Nehemiah Scudder, a backwoods preacher turned President (elected in 2012), then dictator (no elections were held in 2016 or later).
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%22If_This_Goes_On%E2%80%94%22
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_History_%28Heinlein%29
Does that sound about right?
Looking forward to reading it.
Again, thanks!
