It’s a Wonderful Life, Comrade

[Warpy]

2. Dumbass McCarthyites

People came to loathe bankers during the Great Depression when all the money they'd sweated to deposit safely in banks evaporated overnight when everything went up in smoke. My own grandmother refused to trust them and squirreled away money all over her house until her death in the early 1960s.

By making one banker a villain and another a hero, Capra was actually doing better than even the sourest plutocrat could have hoped to sanitize the image banking had in this country even in the late 1940s.

Instead of listening to a bitter old failed novelist like Rand, perhaps they should have watched the movie.