Marie Dressler Reminded Me Why We Do What We Do...

 

I watched Marie Dressler in Politics (1931) today and loved it! Loved the movie because she was in it, as I love all of her movies.

The movie Politics is particularly great because it deals with crooked politicians and the honest hard working citizen.

A hard working citizen woman, a mother and a wife. Her labor of love, Is her family and home.

Not until Marie's character shows up to a meeting to listen to the candidate, does that fire of democracy turn inferno. She lets the crooked politician have it! Right in the kisser, with her words of purpose.

Her words inspire the group of ladies so much, they nominate her to run for Mayor. A great preformance. Bravo! My new FAVORITE movie. All women and men should watch this movie. It gives a charge, it makes you smile and if you aren't careful, it makes you feel like you can do anything.

It lifted my spirits about the possibility of voting in more honest hard working women and men as elected officials, too. We may have women in business and government today, but we are still too few in powerful positions in the present time, to correct the damage that has been done to our social fabric and to our economic engine.

The mortgage foreclosure meltdown, the evictions, the credit catastrophe, the social program shredding and the temporary jobs trap, tell me again how far we've come? When we - Women - are deprived of basic needs, life just takes on a whole new meaning, Every time it happens.

'Basic' for a woman is different than for a man in several area's, especially when it is needed for daily living. Seniors living in their own home face the loss of Meals on Wheels, Adults losing Job Training programs, Children losing community programs, the Sick losing medicine.

With many losses everyone eats less food. With many losses everyone stops spending and eventually everyone can't spend. Just surviving.

And yet, Iraq goes on. What a crying shame our elected officials - all of them, haven't figured out that one Iraq Occupation plus one US Economy equals two devastating failures.

How can they not know? The NeoCons are the mess makers, the Democrats are their care takers and I guess we - the people are the day dreamers.

Marie Dressler ~ An ICON & An INSPIRATION.





The Dressler Story
To Dream, to Dare, to Persist, to Win
by Barbara Garrick
A Biography


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