7/10
This flick speaks to the Real Life Election of 2016 . . .
6 July 2016
Warning: Spoilers
. . . as John Wayne shows us that American Law and the U.S. Constitution are not worth the paper on which they're written if one or two Rich People decide to thwart Democracy. In the LAWLESS NINETIES, fabulously wealthy crime-lord Charles K. Plummer is almost as Rich as Donald J. Trump. Plummer can hire scads of gunmen to blockade all of Wyoming's polling places, just as Trump was able to buy all the American media to spread his bizarre "Birther" nonsense, as well as to sound out all of Obama's Electoral College Enrollees to see how much it would take to switch their vote. Now Trump has bribed hundreds of FBI agents to knock off the Democratic nominee, just as Plummer has John Wayne kidnapped and marked for assassination in LAWLESS. Like the citizens of Crockett City, WY, I've heard some of my neighbors recently wondering, "If we cannot trust Rich People, on whom can we rely?" This, of course, paraphrases one of the last entries in Anne Frank's Diary (though she referred to either Germans or Christians, but may as well have written "Rich Nazis"). As young John Wayne could tell you, do NOT expect a Plummer to unclog your Trump Pump.
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