The socio-political stance of “Barney and Clyde” has been pretty obvious from its earliest days. If you don’t like it and want to drop it, God speed you along your way.
But if you’re just now making that decision, you must be either (1) a newcomer, (2) really slow on the uptake, or (3) a glutton for punishment.
The Horatio Alger, spit-on-your-hands-and-pull-yourself-up-by-the-bootstraps, rags-to-riches story happens just often enough for the entrenched powers to dangle examples to the poor and say “See? Anyone can get rich!” That may be true, but it’s NOT true that everyone can be rich, and we’re suckered into believing that our own failure to be millionaires is a failure to be good Americans, and our own damn fault.
The socio-political stance of “Barney and Clyde” has been pretty obvious from its earliest days. If you don’t like it and want to drop it, God speed you along your way.
But if you’re just now making that decision, you must be either (1) a newcomer, (2) really slow on the uptake, or (3) a glutton for punishment.
The Horatio Alger, spit-on-your-hands-and-pull-yourself-up-by-the-bootstraps, rags-to-riches story happens just often enough for the entrenched powers to dangle examples to the poor and say “See? Anyone can get rich!” That may be true, but it’s NOT true that everyone can be rich, and we’re suckered into believing that our own failure to be millionaires is a failure to be good Americans, and our own damn fault.