There’s a moment in the film, It’s a Wonderful Life, when Jimmy Stewart’s character George Bailey gasps in horror when he is shown what his bucolic town of Bedford Falls, New York, would have become if he had never been born — Pottersville — sleazy, cruel, and morally bankrupt. In other words, much like New America.
Under the current sadistic regime, every day brings a new staged horror event, brought to citizens through internet platforms and TV news by an administration with exquisite media training and nefarious intentions.
They make such a spectacle of oppression — it’s Electro-Fascism, starring Mr Orange and His Cadre of Elevated Half-Wits.
Every day, the curtain opens again to another carefully crafted scene to the tune of the rat-a-tat-tat of shotgun propaganda.
And the show’s now on tour, coming to a fragile democracy near you.