Vol. 27, No. 01
Ben Franklin Inverted
Popular American sayings that reflect the credos that Americans have strived to live by through our country’s history are turned on their heads to reflect liberals’ socialist thought. ...
Poor Lenin’s Almanac: Perverse Leftist Proverbs for Modern Life, by Bruce Walker, Outskirts Press: Denver, Colorado, 2010, 197 pages, paperback, $20.95. Available at Amazon.com.
Bruce Walker has almost turned Ben Franklin and his aphorisms in Poor Richard’s Almanack on their head. Almost. He has taken many of the favorite sayings of our parents and grandparents and — in the voice of today’s amoral socialists — inverted them into what amounts to the operating principles of the modern state and its salaried myrmidons.
The problem is that most of the Anglo-Saxon proverbs he inverts never appeared in Franklin’s original Poor Richard’s Almanack. But the aphorisms he inverts should be familiar to most readers:
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