I’ve been reading these books from Kellogg-Hubbard’s Entertainment table about the Golden Age Of Hollywood in the thirties and forties.  Most every book addresses the Fear and PANIC of film studio heads when the HUAC started to ‘investigate’ Communist-theme movies in the late forties.  Movies such as Crossfire & Gentlemen’s Agreement (1947), and Home Of The Brave (1949), and even some half-hearted attempt to go after The Best Years Of Our Lives (1946).  Well, you all know about the Hollywood Ten and others who were blacklisted.  The Lefties back then sort of stampeded into the closet, and that gave Joe McCarthy the bright idea that hunting for Communists would be as All-American as…well, Gary Cooper.

Cooper testified before the HUAC that he thought Communism was “not on the level,” but by the time he did High Noon in ’52, it was hard for a movie audience to tell whether the MILLER GANG was supposed to be the Commies or the McCarthyites.  I go with the MILLER GANG being the McCarthyites, because, in the church scene in High Noon, Marshall Kane (Cooper) has to answer a question from a certain Mr. Trunbull? (or Trumbo?).  Dalton Trumbo was a screenwriter blacklisted until 1960.  Carl Foreman was a screenwriter for High Noon.  Foreman wound up on the HUAC shitlist and had to leave the country before High Noon hit the theatres.  I’d like to think the church scene in High Noon was a parody of the HUAC committee hearings, and that reference to Mr. Trumbull? (Trumbo?) was something even ole Gary Cooper was in on.

The Frightened and PANICKY townspeople in the church scene in High Noon remind me of how the so-called White Radical Left has acted over the decades.  TALK.  But don’t ACT.  And, if you stay above it all, why, the PEOPLE will make REVOLUTION, and then YOU can RULE.  Screw the Marshall.  He should just go away, and “there won’t be one bit of trouble at all.”

Well, Obama certainly ain’t no Gary Cooper.  We wish.  But we do have the MILLER GANG coming back.  Let’s see…McCarthy, Nixon, Reagan, Bush, and now Romney/Ryan.  Looks like Obama’s going to need “all the deputies” he can get.

The Leftie purists say:  “Obama Sucks.  Let Romney get elected.  Then the PEOPLE will make REVOLUTION.”  Hmmm…Duh.  Ain’t no fucking Revolution EVER going to happen in this country!  EVER!  It is the ‘privilege’ of the ‘patrician’ Left to think so.  To write and talk about the PEOPLE as though they are stupid clods just needing to be LEAD along by good old-fashioned (and now irrelevant) Marxist/Leninist/Mao thought.  (Sorry, Martha)  And thus the American Left does absolutely NOTHING.  Like the townsfolk in High Noon.  And the PEOPLE?  Well, fuck them too.  Maybe after 8 more years of the MILLER GANG, they’ll get some balls.  We can watch them take to the streets from the church, our ‘vigil’ accomplished.

But what our current MILLER GANG is about is no less than dismantling any and all remaining power the people might have to be able to do something about where our nation is headed (down the shithole).  So, the question is, what is the right thing to do?  Vote?  Sit out the election?  Vote for Jill Stein?  Roseanne?  The Socialist Anarchists Workers Anti-GMO/Free Mumia candidate?  Hmmm. (again)  I’ll probably write-in Roseanne if Vermont’s a sure thing for Obama.  Exercise my patrician privilege.  But if it gets really close, then that’s too close to home for me.  I’ll have to put on a deputy’s badge.

Anyway, here’s a funny little ‘theme song’ about it:

DO NOT FORSAKE ME, ALL YOU LEFTIES

Do not forsake me

All you Lefties,

On this Election Daa-ay

I know you’re pure

But you must be brave



You know his gang’s

A band of killers

Oh I know you want

A Revolution Nation

But now’s not the time

For convoluted obfuscation

Look at them raping

Our Constitution



What will you do?

Do not forsake me

All you Lefties,

Remember all

The hateful things

They’ve said

Go and vote

Don’t be a dolt…’thumpa, thumpa, thumpa, thumpa, thumpa, thump…………

Peter Buknatski

Montpelier, Vt.