DEFEAT FASCISM

Sometimes fiction is more realistic than reality. Take the current dictatorship in America. Compare it to a fictional work, the 1971 Woody Allen film Bananas. In this spoof of the Cuban revolution, the rebel leader of the fictional country of San Marcos, Esposito, seems admirable when compared with the dictator Vargas.

Then the rebels win and Exposito becomes the new dictator. In a surprise development, power has driven the leader mad. He announces that he is the ruler of San Marcos, and orders that the country's official language will be Swedish and that citizens must now change their underwear every half hour, wearing it outside their clothing so that it can easily be checked.

This wasn’t foreseen and leads to many plot escapades.

Let’s look now at two actual dictatorships during the last century. They announced their plans early, openly, and proudly, the first in Mein Kampf and the second in Project 2025. Each laid out clear plans for the resulting victory to their adherents.

Whereas the change in the film’s protagonist was a complete surprise. The results of the two real cases simply appeared as fulfillment of plans and prophecy. Their actions surprise no discerning citizen.

Can we note differences? Yes. Even the brilliant imagination of Woody Allen couldn’t have utilized the plot line of America’s dictatorship. The actions of our dictator reside far outside the boundaries of what one would imagine the inhabitants of a modern democracy would accept, even an imaginary one.

In other words, the idiocies currently flowing from our current seat of power defy logic to the point that they wouldn’t lend themselves to believable fiction such as the plot of a Woody Allen film.

Also, they just aren’t very funny. Maybe if the president grew a beard.