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| In the movie 'It's a Wonderful Life,' George Bailey is taken by his guardian angel, Clarence, into the alternate reality of poor choices called Pottersville. (photo: Paramount/IMDB) |
17 January 12
The Republican presidential race has taken a detour into the "class warfare" that the party supposedly despises, with Newt Gingrich and Rick Perry tagging Mitt Romney as an elitist who got rich by laying off workers. But this spat misses the larger point of what the Right is doing to America, writes Robert Parry.
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many years, it appeared that the Right wanted to take the United States
back to the 1950s - when blacks "knew their place," women were "in the
kitchen" and gays stayed "in the closet" - but it turns out that the
intended back-in-time-travel was to the 1920s, to an era of a few haves
and many have-nots, not only before the Civil Rights Movement but before
the Great American Middle-Class.
The Right's goal has been less to recreate the world
of "Father Knows Best" than to establish a national "Pottersville," like
in the movie, "It's a Wonderful Life," where the existence of the
average man and woman was brutish and unfulfilling, while the 1 percent
of that age lived in gilded comfort and held sweeping power. READ MORE
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