Wood points to this notice of Victor Berger (1860-1929) by the Wisconsin Historical Society:
An American Socialist leader and Congressman, Berger was born in Austria-Hungary. He studied at universities in Budapest and Vienna,
We already know where this is going...
then emigrated in 1878 to the United States and settled in Milwaukee. After 1892 he devoted himself to Socialist politics and journalism, editing the Milwaukee Vorwärts! from 1892 to 1898. With Eugene V. Debs he was instrumental in the creation of the American Socialist party...Berger was elected the first Socialist member of Congress and served from 1911 to 1913. He was reelected in 1918 and 1919. Congress excluded his seat on grounds of sedition... [emphasis added]
Vic had to be obliterated by an Act of Congress. Way to go, Vic! This obliteration itself -- as well as that of the "history" of anyone who has addressed the American dilemma in a manner that isn't Simple, Binary, and Righteous -- enjoys a similar obliteration.
The Melting Pot excels in forgetting that it has forgotten alterity. Broadcast media is its strictly logical endgame.
...a charge for which he was sentenced to a 20-year prison term.
''We'' the People long have lolled in the panoptic solitary confinement of Broadcast American Discourse. One way to view the explosion of blogs is as a manifestation of pent-up demand.
The U.S. Supreme Court reversed this decision in 1921. He was allowed to take his seat when reelected in 1922. Again elected in 1924 and 1926, he was defeated in 1928.
