Heh. Sure are a lot of folks who don't want you see things that might get you to thinking too much. That Pottersville scene must have hit too close to home.
12/25/24:
The GOP is definitely not the George Bailey party. For that matter, neither are the Democrats. Now Trump is trying to play the George Bailey role. They'll point out that he's a billionaire. That doesn't matter. Caesar played the George Bailey role in ancient Rome. FDR played the role and gave America the New Deal. Trump's just the latest incarnation of the same story. A patrician taking the part of the plebians is nothing new.
The GOP has fought Trump as much as the Democrats have. But their hostility has been more subtle, as they at least have to pretend to be on the side of the ordinary American. The Democrats have gone elitist for a long time now. They've long abandoned the party of the common folk. Even Ronald Reagan could see that, and this was 40 years ago. It has been a long road from the party that drove the "money changers out of the temple" line that FDR gave on his inaugural. The Democrats ARE the money changers now. The GOP has always been their junior partner. Ask Paul Krugman on that one.
Therefore, the GOP is definitely not the party of George Bailey. Neither of them are. It's funny that this comparison is made. I note how the rhetoric today more closely matches the tone of the Pottersville nightmare that George Bailey had before he realized that he wanted his old life back. We now live in "Pottersville", not in Bedford Falls. There are plenty of Potters, but only one George Bailey.
We need somebody to oppose them just like Bedford Falls needed the Building and Loan for no other reason than not to have to crawl back to the Potters of this world. Know what I mean, Vern?
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