{"id":5780,"date":"2019-01-07T11:00:58","date_gmt":"2019-01-07T16:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=5780"},"modified":"2019-01-06T19:07:11","modified_gmt":"2019-01-07T00:07:11","slug":"im-the-bad-guy-how-did-that-happen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2019\/01\/07\/im-the-bad-guy-how-did-that-happen\/","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019m the Bad Guy? \u00a0How Did That Happen?"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a recent post I said that the current revolt on the Right could be described as the Falling Down Revolt<\/a>.\u00a0 This references the 1993 movie, \u201cFalling Down,\u201d that starred Michael Douglas<\/a> as a divorced, recently laid off defense industry engineer, named William Foster, who, while stopped on the Los Angeles freeway on a sweltering hot day discovers he has reached the end of his rope.\u00a0 He leaves his car in the middle of traffic and goes on a trek across the mean streets of Los Angeles to see his young daughter on her birthday.\u00a0 Along the way he runs into all the dysfunctional aspects of modern America.\u00a0 There is the Korean inconvenience store where the clerk won\u2019t let you have change unless you pay larcenously high prices, the fast food store where a minute after the prescribed time breakfast becomes an impossibility and the food looks nothing like the nice pictures on the wall.\u00a0 There are the Mexican street gangs holding up a stranger at knifepoint and then peppering a whole sidewalk full of neighbors with automatic weapons fire to revenge themselves on someone who didn\u2019t allow himself to be robbed.\u00a0 There are construction sites that spring up and leave the drivers stopped in place for hours, not to repair streets but just to maintain the size of the city construction budget.\u00a0 There are the panhandlers and psychotic hate-mongers and all manner of unhappy people wherever he turns.<\/p>\n

At the end of the film the police detective (played by Robert Duvall) following behind Foster\u2019s trail of destruction figures out that Foster\u2019s unconscious plan is to commit a murder suicide against his wife and daughter.\u00a0 When Duvall tells him he\u2019s under arrest Foster and the detective have this exchange:<\/p>\n