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I was writing an email to a friend this morning about the condition of politics and mentioned that we're "going to hell in a handbasket". That got me to wondering about the origin of that saying. It was surprising:
In the 19th century, the phrase has been found associated with the American gold rush of the 1840s where men were lowered by hand in baskets down mining shafts to set explosives, which could have deadly consequences.
