Mr. Potter is a repug and George Bailey is a dem!

Why can't we get people to see that?

Pottersville rocked!

which George had. The Republicans exploit the fear of losing the job or home and redirect the anger toward the immigrant, the other race, the other religion, the other sexual orientation. And most people go along with it because it seems safer than recognizing that it is the Potter Republicans who are screwing you and crying crocodile tears as they ship your job off to China and pocket the profits.

breaths! I had never heard that line before! Maybe because I had garlic breath like you can't imagine and smelled of fish!

The Post War years saw the rise of Corporate fronts, Madison Avenue and Public Relations.

They hide because when they're visible, they lose.

But make no mistake, they still rule. The names we know are merely managers, or, as in the case of Dubya & Condi, window dressing.

If the movie were being made today, Potter would hire a Rush Limbaugh and Bill O'Reilly to say that George was making war on Christmas.

that's totally scary.

that you wrote this. I was thinking of that when I first saw the movie -- especially the part where Potter was trying to take over the Building & Loan, and George told him off!:applause:

George is surely a capitalist entrepreneur, Potter is a statist.

George is a Reagan Republican, Potter is a Rockefeller Republican.

George is a Gore Democrat, Potter is a (pick a lousy Democratic major city mayor of your choice).

Clarance is Patrick Moynahan.

Uncle Billy is.....?

George is a capitalist entrepreur and a Reagan republican? The movie is a thinly veiled New Deal parable, so George is, if anything, an FDR Democrat, as was its director, Frank Capra.

George is a capitalist, but in a regulated environment that incentivizes him to "do well, by doing good." He is the owner of a "savings and loan," not an ordinary bank. Savings and loans were highly regulated financial institutions that were created only to take deposits and make home loans within a particular community. Potter is the owner of a commercial bank, the unregulated part of the financial industry.

So George, like his creator Frank Capra, is a New Deal Democrat.

I thought the Uncle Billy bit might have gotten you to think about the characters. It took me awhile to decide on Moynahan rather than Bird for instance.

Should have used that silly sarcasm do-dad.

P.S. Robin Hood stole from the government and gave to the taxpayers.

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