None Of The Above

This is a post about how the near political future of America and the world is predicted in an old movie. It's a post about an old man who will become the next president of the United States, just like foretold in that old movie. Finally, it's a post by an old man who now warns you, dear reader, that there will be spoilers in it for the 1985 movie Brewster's Millions.

_{Image by Descrier - source: Flickr}

Bernie Sanders will become the next president of the U.S. At least that's what I hope and believe, and frankly all news points in that direction. Here's why he'll win: Bernie Sanders is intensely hated by both political parties, their corporate donors and the mainstream media. The way Bernie is treated by the media and the Democratic party leadership is an almost exact copy of what happened with Trump in 2016; he was attacked relentlessly attacked in the media, and by the Republican party leadership as a phony, and not seen as a serious threat. This strategy backfired during the primaries which Trump won of course. And then it backfired again in the general elections against Hillary Clinton and Trump became the president. The entire political and corporate establishment couldn't believe what was happening; when it became increasingly clear that Trump could indeed beat their preferred candidate and they finally took him seriously, it was already too late.

We're in that phase now in the Democratic primaries: they're panicking as poll after poll shows Bernie rising to the top in the early states and nationally, how they show that Bernie is most trusted on the issues that the people find most important, how he's the most popular politician and the most popular senator in the entire country. And he did it, just like Trump did, without the help of the mainstream media or his party's establishment; this is why smearing these men in the mainstream media has no effect, as they never relied on those media in the first place. Trump was hated by both parties, Sanders is hated by both parties. A vote for both of these men is in fact a protest vote against BOTH parties' establishments, which is why so many Obama voters switched over to Trump, who at least talked about the issues that matter to them; keep American jobs in America and Drain The Swamp. The deciding difference between the rise of Trump and the rise of Sanders is how they fund their campaigns; Trump is a billionaire who pays for himself, whereas Sanders has created the biggest grass-root movement ever and is funded exclusively by small individual donations averaging around 20 dollar. Where Trump was, and has proven to be a populist in rhetoric only, Bernie has a track record of 40 years of fighting for the poor and working class, fighting against both parties' elites as a life long Independent, and fighting to get money out of politics and does so leading by example.

_{Brewster's Millions Movie CLIP - Thirty Million in Thirty Days (1985)}

Now let's talk about Monty Brewster as played by Richard Pryor in the 1985 film Brewster's Millions. Spoilers ahead if you plan on watching this great comedy! Monty Brewster is a Minor League Baseball pitcher with the Hackensack Bulls, who unexpectedly learns that an uncle he never met has died and left him his family fortune, worth 300 million dollars. As Brewster has never earned more than 11,000 dollar a year, this is great news, but Uncle Rupert explains in a video that there are conditions to this inheritance; it's a great scene, watch it in the above linked video. Brewster's choice is this: he can try to spend 30 million dollars in 30 days, at the end of which he's allowed to own no assets at all, except for the shirt on his back, and if he succeeds he'll inherit the entire 300 million estate, or he can take 1 million dollar and forget about the whole deal. What makes the story and the movie interesting is the condition that if he goes for the big gamble, he's not allowed to explain his behavior to anyone, not even his closest friends; throughout the movie Monty loses all his friends, his real friends and the ones who pretended to be his friends while he was on the 30 million dollar spending-spree, as they just don't understand why he seemingly wants to become a poor man again after such a stroke of luck.

Brewster also learns that it is indeed nigh impossible to spend so much money without anything to show for it; he's not allowed to destroy valuable properties, not allowed to buy diamond rings for his girlfriend and he can't just burn valuable paintings. And whatever he tries, with one or two exceptions, he always gets something of value in return for even his most crazy investments. The only thing he can find to burn money fast enough is... running in a political campaign for New York's Mayor office. And here Brewster sort of becomes Bernie:

Realizing that he is making no headway, Brewster decides to run for Mayor of New York City and throws most of his money at a protest campaign urging a vote for "None of the Above."
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Monty points out in his campaign the corruption of both other candidates in the race, and tells the people to vote for none of the candidates. The difference between Bernie and Brewster is that the latter includes himself in the call to vote for "None of the Above." The similarities between the two resume however when Brewster becomes the most popular candidate by pointing out the corruption that is "business as usual" in establishment politics. In the film Brewster has to withdraw as a candidate, but in the end "None of the Above" still wins:

On the final day, he finds that the sycophantic treatment he received from his entourage is gone. Shunned by everyone he knows, Brewster makes his way to the law office. Having withdrawn from the election, he learns that the city voted "None of the Above," forcing another election in which none of the previous candidates are running.
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And yes, Brewster also wins the 300 million by spending his last dollars seconds before the 30 day period expires. Monty Brewster started a project that no one thought he could succeed at, just like Bernie did. Brewster and Bernie alike owe their rising popularity to fighting against money and corruption in politics. Trump won that way too, and it can easily be argued that Brewster also mirrors Trump of 2016, when he was the new anti establishment presidential candidate. Trump however has proven to be yet another fraud, when Sanders is "the real deal," just like Brewster was ;-)

_{Brewster's Millions Official Trailer #1 - John Candy Movie (1985)}

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