Judy Ortiz

05/17/2013

Fascism

 

Sinclair Lewis describes how fascism was physical violence for those who against capitalism. Lewis points out two examples in the pages 95 and 96 in the book,  It Can’t Happen Her: an old man and a young Jewish girl were brutally beaten and arrested by soldiers.  The old man and the young girl were a threat to the bureaucracy because their ideas and their passion had power in the minds of those who believe that a change was needed. Notwithstanding, their protest was nonviolent. They just wanted to generate awareness and spread democratic ideas in those who were in the middle of a system that was taking their rights and was giving them just rules. They just wanted to generate an intellectual awakening in the minds of those who remained and silence and gave the power to the government. The man and the girl’s ideas were strong enough to produce an effect, but government was afraid. Despite that the government had the control with an oppressive system that was support for some men. Government was afraid of the others who were not sympathetic with the system. The government’s fears were product of the oppressed men’s nonconformity and the thirst of change and democracy.  Ironically, government had the power of convince a group of people who gave him the position through votes, but the same government did not have intellectual power to convince the unhappy men. Government display fascism through physical violence because he wanted to kill any idea that against his system. Through violence he wanted to produce silence and a general fear and submission to his system.