A dear friend sent me this and I just had to share it. It's a 2 minute excerpt from a 1958 series, Trackdown. The episode was called "The End of the World." The similarity of the show's scripted dialogue and today's real political dialogue is uncanny.
What the fresh hell. This is REAL. Filmed in 1958- about a conman who grifts a small town of suckers into building a wall. History not subtle enough for you? GUESS THE GRIFTER'S NAME— Alex Hirsch (@_AlexHirsch) January 9, 2019
(And watch until the end) pic.twitter.com/6FA3p6KC00
Just goes to show that there's nothing new under the sun and con men will always be with us. Except that in 2016, some of our genius suckers with very good brains managed to put one in the White House.
The link below is to the original TPM article and includes the full 22 minute version of "The End of the World," if you feel like a longer watch.
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/1958-show-trump-sells-wall-to-townspeople?fbclid=IwAR1DHKGe0MXH5Qd4K6_BwqltZJHA8dvWlq3KGviybMPJ_vnycgl2bQldaqA
And for more in the same "con man-gets-his-comeuppance" vein, I highly recommend the 1957 movie "A Face in the Crowd," which gets only more relevant with each passing year.
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