WHO are we? In 2013
"GATSBY", written by F. Scott Fitzgerald when my mother was a teenager, has been made (again) into a Hollywood film. Takin' a break here in Vegas, I'm told by the Media that "Harry" is back in the U.S., making amends for his last blast here, in Sin City.
Such an interesting juxtaposition of stories and lives, and social-order-tales! I grew up in a country that prided itself for NOT having to bow to Royalty! Yet, that "America", heavily influenced by its assimilation processes for European immigrants, was also conflicted by "Class"! How, you might ask? By the distinction of "old" money and "new" money -- by whether you "worked" for your money, or whether you "inherited" your money. Romney and his type (Bush?), have further confused these distinctions in their "You Didn't Make That" campaign in 2012. Even if you don't have any money, and you derive from "old" families that "used to have" wealth; you and your kind are better than those whites who work for their money. Makes you wanna laugh, don't it?? But that's not funny! Grandma in London takes that stuff seriously! Remember what happened to Diana?
Go see "GATSBY", you'll learn some of your history that you probably were not taught in school.
It was set in the 'Roaring Twenties', when, I'm told, my Dad's father left the farm to go "bootleggin", like so many other men at that time following World War I. The Fast Money brought on the CRASH of 1929.
But back to 2013, and Vegas. I have been coming here regularly since early 1971, and I've watched the city change through our multiple "passages" as a nation. What I'm seeing today is an "International Watering-Hole". Almost nobody I see in the high-end establishments are citizens, and they are NOT poor. Every color and type of humanity on this planet is represented!
All of this takes on a yet-more-macabre twist when you see the racist Katzenjammers in the Senate (one of the "Ol South", the other of the New Red Arizona) and the Bar-Back in the House leading what is left of the Republican Party on a forced march back to 1870. The orderly government of the United States of America, is no longer their concern. In case anybody tries to run this country over their concerted efforts to "shut'er down"; they will meet goose-stepping opposition in the Congress and over-whelming amounts of money (mostly "New Money")! They're suspiciously busy in the Senate, trying to weave all this Hay into an Immigration Bill that will preserve their deeply-held, Eugenicist views of people who are not "white".
Stay Vigilant! Try to stay SANE!
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