ANARCHY

Anarchy, at its appearance at the end of the nineteenth century, bears a striking resemblance to the terrorists of the end of the twentieth.
There are more than a few parallels between that time and now:
The Speaker of the House, Thomas Reed, and his fight against the "silent quorum".
In 1895, when E. L. Godkin, editor of The Nation, said that the U. S. "finds itself in possession of enormous power and is eager ro use it.....and is therefore constantly on the brink of some frightful catastrophe. "
Replace Democrat with Republican and you might as well replace 1895 with 2010.



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