Marc Zimmerman is a former Capitol Hill legislative assistant who focused on defense, international trade, and business. His screenplay, "Russian to Judgment," about his undercover work for the FBI in pursuit and expulsion of a KGB agent from the U.S., is available for development. He can be reached via mzimmerman AT yahoo DOT com
Marc Zimmerman
To Form a More Perfect Union, Hollywood’s Taking You Out of the Equation
by Marc ZimmermanReturn with me now to the days of yore, when frothing left wing loonies exhibited some semblance of knowledge and didn’t just spew bizarro diatribes, as exhibited in the recent Garofolo rant. I hearken back to an era of bi-polarity (no, not the mood swing/disorder, lithium kind) but to the 1980’s, when the Good Guys (USA and western society) and the Black Hats (the Soviet Empire and their captured lackey governments) squared off to contest ways of life and global spheres of influence.
It was a simpler time. Our external enemies were easily identifiable: they were blatant in railing against capitalism, freedom of speech, belief in God, individual accountability, and love of country, while pleading, teary eyed, for pro-government wet-nurse-ism (Soviet-style socialism). Their domestically deranged fellow travelers, the unhinged adversaries of the Founder’s Constitutional principles, were relegated (correctly) by voters to minority political power status, and were as effective as a brace of quacking ducks. (more…)
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