Honky Tonk (1941)
8/10
This film was made as a user's manual . . .
6 December 2018
Warning: Spoilers
. . . to instruct future generations of Pachyderm Party members how to run their "family businesses" (that is, various American governments, large and small). HONKY TONK teaches youth of the elephantine persuasion how to think of U.S. Citizens: As so many "suckers." Though "Candy and Liz" settle for a "60% for us, 40% for the suckers" split of Public Tax Receipts, they do allow for periodic adjustments of this "revenue sharing" formula (which have collectively changed the ratio to 90% for Them, 10% for We Little People consuming the leftover crumbs, with the current Pachyderm Junta's latest "reverse Robin Hood" tax cut for the Rich). HONKY TONK reveals that the Elephant in our room will cram its trunk into our churches, schools, and family planning clinics. Even though Liz appears to have the Wizard of Oz on her side, he's eventually forced to concede that there's nothing in his little black bag for her, and Yellow Creek's obstetrician seconds that motion. Candy proves to be a master of voter suppression and using lame ducks to downsize the powers of any position for which The People vote Pachyderms out of office, something that Today's elephantine HONKY TONK sore losers are doing to us suckers all across America!
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