CHARACTERS: Bolshevik Bernie, Bankrupt Bonita, Phony Fascista
SCENARIO-SYNOPSIS:
Siksa and Asul choose a “summer camp” to attend. They have three choices:
LESSONS LEARNED:
COMPARATIVE “SYSTEMS” – Capitalism, Communism, Fascism
GROW the PIE … CHARE the PIE … FIX (“favoritism”) the Pie
private private enterprise … public (collective) endeavor … patronage -collusion (corporate “CRONIES”)
“free” markets … “fair” markets … “fixed”-“mixed” markets
competition (customers) … command (comrades) … collusion (corporate “CRONIES”)
malls (profits) … gulags (power-politics) … “camps” (“purpose”-plans-engineering)
camps (recreation-virtues) … camps (re-education of “vices”) … camps (redemptive-civic religion- ruthless-violent)
“Work Ethic” – “Workers Paradise” … “Work Will Set You Free”
“Give Me Your Tired” … “Nothing to Lose But Your Chains” … “The [totalitarian] VILLAGE”
God (providence) … god-less (principalities diabolical) … god-state
altruism (neighbors) … alienation (class warfare) … “agendas” (“it takes a village”)
“pursuit of happiness” … power (by any means necessary … “progress” (work will set you free)
REVOLUTIONS: Give Me Liberty of Give Me Death … The Revolution EATS ITS OWN (“enemies”) … Marxist and Fascist Versions
enterprise (“free”) … equity (“fair”) … engineering (“fixed”)
opportunity (“free”) … outcomes (“fair”) … order (“fixed”)
“the JUNGLE” … the “GULAG” … the “CAMP” …
Main (any-everywhere) Street … Wall Street(New York) … “K” Street (lobbyists – Washington D.C.)
stores (small business) … stocks (corporations) …
“LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR” (“persons”) vs “YOUR NEIGHBOR’s KEEPER” (“the people”)
‘PROFILES in PROFIT” – “SOCIALIST RE-EDUCATION CAMP”
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