Okay, so I just wrote a silly political ad for the
Democrats, so in the interest of fairness, here’s a silly political ad for
Republicans, using the same (bowdlerized) Ronald Reagan quote:
As we all know, the Republicans like to preach that
government is not always the answer. Well, I think I know a way to communicate
this idea pretty effectively. What they could do is to compile a collection of
shots from movies of government agents oppressing people, government “spooks”/men-in-black
chasing people, government types acting possessed by aliens, etc. These shots
could come from Repo Man, The
Matrix, The X Files, etc. They could also use the general who is being
controlled by aliens in Earth vs. the Flying Saucers, and Peter Sellers as Dr. Strangelove, and maybe even Burt Lancaster as that renegade
general in Seven Days in May. And
you know there are tons of other movies with evil government scientists
creating monsters and torturing people, right? So include some of them too.
So at the beginning of the ad, show Ronald Reagan saying:
“Government is not the solution: government is the problem!” And then just show
all these film clips of supposed government agents creating havoc and mayhem
everywhere. Then they could say: “End government oppression: vote Republican.”
Because after all, isn’t this a pretty good example of how the hysteria has
been spreading about President Obama’s policies on the right? And never mind
the implication that these government villains in the movies are from
Republican administrations: they’re from the government, and that’s close
enough.
