I never thought David Brin's incredibly cheesy and schmaltzy novel The Postman (made into a box office bomb starring Kevin Costner) would feel so relevant The country dissolving into fiefdoms run by fascist warlords and the one man opposing them is the last US Postman
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I just looked up this scene from the movie on YouTube and they made it a lot less hostile between the Postman and the town leaders but it's still pretty good tbhhttps://youtu.be/7bvgrgD6aUE
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Okay it actually just hit me that The Postman would be a lot more honest to its themes (American ideals vs American reality) and make a lot more sense (why do people have such irrationally polarized feelings about this guy) if The Postman were Black https://twitter.com/nhannahjones/status/1249382181719375878?s=19 …
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You could make him an expy of Obama even Giving this speech about "in accordance with the mandates of the Old Constitution, I have been given authority under the Restored Congress of the United States" to these skeptical bearded Oregon rednecks
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Anyway the more I think about it the more relevant it feels Our President basically saying we DON'T have a country, and it's every state governor for themselves in the face of a plague And in Republican states with shitty governors it's every city mayor for themselves
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The rich immediately fleeing to their mountain fortresses and being like "It's everyone else's problem" Travel shutting down, people trying to put up hard borders between states to stop the flow of infection, all the old links broken
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"also, big cities are evil havens of lefty evil real americans live in small towns!"
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And here they keep claiming to love rural America and hate NYC
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It's remarkable how much the Republicans don't actually care about the salt of the Earth rural folks suddenly
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