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Bellingham Bill
2016 Feb 1, 7:15pm
When the votes were counted, Upton Sinclair got 37% of the vote, the Republican candidate got 48% and a third-party progressive candidate took another 13%. [Goddammit!] Had it been a two-man race, or had Sinclair been less intellectually honest and more of a politician, he would likely have become Governor of California and the EPIC pension plan might well have become the California model.
(In a classic exercise in political hubris, Sinclair detailed his EPIC plan in a book published in 1933, with the confident title "I, Governor of California And How I Ended Poverty: A True Story of the Future." Following the election he would publish another book with the humbled title "I, Candidate for Governor and How I Got Licked.")
Page 14 of the first book:
"You have to do away with the power of any man, anywhere, to make his comfort and his glory out of the necessities of others"
Well said!
Later on the book goes into his "crank" diets, which were vegetarianism, fasting, and later what looks just like a raw food / paleo diet.
He's one of the few people born in the 1870s that overlapped my life as a Gen Xer, so he was doing something right.
Hitler might have made it into the late 60s too, but world events intervened there.
^ nice house in Pasadena, too!