While reading through the massive "Collected Letters of CS Lewis" (the guy couldn't stop writing letters!), I came across this little gem that wouldn't be at all out of place if it was written yesterday:
TO VERA GEBBERT
Magdalen College,
Oxford
28th July 1952
Dear Mrs. Gebbert,
...Does anyone in America understand American politics? Certainly no one over here can make out what is happening, in spite of numerous inspired articles by so called experts; people who pretend to know all about it...assure me that a Taft victory would be a disaster and an Eisenhower one would be grand. Which, as they belong to the same party, seems odd to me; others tell me that as the Democrats are sure to get in anyhow, the Taft-Eisenhower battle was of no importance. I thought I was going to learn something from an old lady in Connecticut the other day, but at the end of eight pages so hot that they nearly burned my fingers, all I could gather was that the "Dumbocrats" as she called them, are a sort of mixture of Hitler, the Russian secret police, and the inmates of the village lunatic asylum: but no doubt this view is a little prejudiced...
With all good wishes.
Yours sincerely,
CS Lewis
TO VERA GEBBERT
Magdalen College,
Oxford
28th July 1952
Dear Mrs. Gebbert,
...Does anyone in America understand American politics? Certainly no one over here can make out what is happening, in spite of numerous inspired articles by so called experts; people who pretend to know all about it...assure me that a Taft victory would be a disaster and an Eisenhower one would be grand. Which, as they belong to the same party, seems odd to me; others tell me that as the Democrats are sure to get in anyhow, the Taft-Eisenhower battle was of no importance. I thought I was going to learn something from an old lady in Connecticut the other day, but at the end of eight pages so hot that they nearly burned my fingers, all I could gather was that the "Dumbocrats" as she called them, are a sort of mixture of Hitler, the Russian secret police, and the inmates of the village lunatic asylum: but no doubt this view is a little prejudiced...
With all good wishes.
Yours sincerely,
CS Lewis
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