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Bucky

(53,795 posts)
Sat Apr 1, 2017, 01:37 PM Apr 2017

on Thursday April 6th, watch Turner Classic Movies if you can.

The movie is Gabriel Over the White House. I strongly urge you to find a friend with Turner movie channel and watch that movie. It Comes on at 7:30 central time.

For years I have shown that movie to my history classes to show them how close the world came to total fascism, even the United States, during the Great Depression. How the view among many intellectuals and politicians and many voters was that democracy was not up to the challenges of the Modern Age.

It was released right before the New Deal came out, and while there are some heroic things the president does, you start to see that the good guy it's not entirely the good guy as we understand it.

This year you should watch it for a different reason. And you should bring your friends along to watch it too.

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on Thursday April 6th, watch Turner Classic Movies if you can. (Original Post) Bucky Apr 2017 OP
Thanks! BumRushDaShow Apr 2017 #1
...and this movie came out the same time the Business Plot was hatched. Cooley Hurd Apr 2017 #2
The HERO in this "drains the swamp of corruption" Hortensis Apr 2017 #3
Dumbing Down of America judesedit Apr 2017 #4
Time for West coast feed is 4:45. Silver Gaia Apr 2017 #5
It's on 7:45 in the morning, Eastern Daylight Time, not pm. Ilsa Apr 2017 #6
I checked out the schedule, too, and you're right! 7:45am Thursday, EDT Rhiannon12866 Apr 2017 #7
 

Cooley Hurd

(26,877 posts)
2. ...and this movie came out the same time the Business Plot was hatched.
Sat Apr 1, 2017, 03:31 PM
Apr 2017
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Plot

The Business Plot was a political conspiracy in 1933 in the United States. Retired Marine Corps Major General Smedley Butler claimed that wealthy businessmen were plotting to create a fascist veterans' organization with Butler as its leader and use it in a coup d'état to overthrow President Franklin D. Roosevelt. In 1934, Butler testified before the United States House of Representatives Special Committee on Un-American Activities (the "McCormack-Dickstein Committee&quot on these claims.[1] No one was prosecuted.

At the time of the incidents, news media dismissed the plot, with a New York Times editorial characterizing it as a "gigantic hoax".[2] While historians have questioned whether or not a coup was actually close to execution, most agree that some sort of "wild scheme" was contemplated and discussed.


We dodged a bullet thanks to General Smedley Butler.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
3. The HERO in this "drains the swamp of corruption"
Sat Apr 1, 2017, 03:46 PM
Apr 2017

by dissolving congress, imposing martial law, etc.

"...the view among many intellectuals and politicians and many voters was that democracy was not up to the challenges of the Modern Age." The calls to revolution to save the nation and "I alone can fix it" from well-received leaders in 2016 are appeals to today's counterparts.

Thanks for the notice, Bucky. I saw this in high school, or perhaps junior high, but haven't remembered it enough to look it up for decades.

judesedit

(4,437 posts)
4. Dumbing Down of America
Sat Apr 1, 2017, 04:38 PM
Apr 2017

Also check out The Dumbing Down of America. It was being implemented around that time to ensure students are graded on what they are being taught/ brainwashed with...not necessarily the facts/truth. And that they are penalized/flunked for disagreeing or thinking outside the box. All in the plan. Same for military. Check it out for yourself.

Ilsa

(61,675 posts)
6. It's on 7:45 in the morning, Eastern Daylight Time, not pm.
Sat Apr 1, 2017, 04:57 PM
Apr 2017

My DirecTv schedule has 7:45am. Thank you for the tip. I'll be recording it.

Rhiannon12866

(203,033 posts)
7. I checked out the schedule, too, and you're right! 7:45am Thursday, EDT
Sun Apr 2, 2017, 02:18 AM
Apr 2017

Thanks for double checking!

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