Not the Onion: "Give Back? Yes, It's Time For The 99% To Give Back To The 1%"

[Ken Burch]

139. It's interesting that you should mention the "Little House" books in this context

because Rose Wilder Lane(who was responsible for getting those books published)edited them to serve the right-wing ideology she was trying to promote.

In particular, Ms. Lane edited out the passages her mother had written in which the whole town came together in response to some sort of crisis(fire, animal attack, insane weather, etc)...leaving only those story lines in which the Ingalls family, all by itself, solved ALL of its problems, while never asking anybody else for any help at all.

And Ms. Lane did this during the worst of the Great Depression, a time in which it had become clear to the vast majority of Americans that only community, state, and federal intervention could guarantee that the American people survived the situation. The "Little House" books were released as anti-New Deal propaganda.

Ironically, when he did the television series based on the books(a series that painted a ridiculously romanticized portrait of life on the Minnesota prairie during the late 19th Century). Michael Landon, no liberal himself(and also a total flaming hypocrite on the "family values" issue, but that's another discussion) seems to have realized that Rose Wilder Lane's version of prairie life was, to at least some degree, total horse manure, and showed a lot of situations in which everybody in Walnut Grove worked together for the greater good.