'tis the season - KANE in the news

[NoFake]

The elections have elicited cinematic reflections on the part of The Washington Post’s movie critic. The front page of Sunday’s Arts & Living section has a 5-1/2 x 7-1/2 inch photo of the Kane speech scene:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn....35.html

while the inside article

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn....81.html

projects Kane as a depiction of “...something rotten in politics, something that has too long dogged our shores and tainted institutions. That is the sense of entitlement and moral superiority that the rich have, the sense that they are vouchsafed entry into the higher levels of the ruling profession based on nothing more than a shrewd selection of extremely wealthy people as parents.”

[Glenn Anders]

True, nofake.

How sad that most States tomorrow will be pleased to have a 50% turn-out of REGISTERED VOTERS (not eligible voters), and of those, a majority, or a near majority, will vote as if they were millionaires, or will one day be. They will naturally be voting against their own best interests, at the moment.

But the larger quesion the Times article raises applies to both our major political parties and most of their supporters. The Country continues to move to the Right, and even the new representatives and senators from the Democratic Party will tend to follow that trend.

I assume that Charles Foster Kane would have been a "Reform Republican" early in the last century. He would have known, in a paternalistic way, that what was good for the Inquirer was good for the common man.

Thank you for bringing this article to our attention.