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Scene from Bulworth

This scene from Bulworth actually worries me, thinking about it. If you haven't seen this movie, it shows you exactly what shape American politics are in. Read this scene. I bet it'll scare anyone who reads it. That means you, Julie.

Interviewer: Welcome back. In our Los Angeles Studio we have incumbent Democratic Senator Jay Bulworth of California. Good evening, Senator.

[Bulworth remaining silent]

Interviewer: Senator, why this new campaign style? Why this new manner of dress and speech? Your ethnic manner of speech, your--your clothes, The use of obscenity.

Bulworth: Obscenity?

Bulworth: The rich is gettin' richer and richer and richer while the middle class is gettin' more poor. Just makin' billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions of bucks. Well, my friend if, uh, you weren't already rich at the start that--that--that situation sucks 'cause the--the richest motherfucker in five of us is gettin' ninety-fuckin' eight percent of it and every other motherfucker in the world is left to wonder where the fuck we we went with it. Obscenity? I'm a senator. I gotta raise $10,000 a day every day I'm in Washington. I ain't gettin' it in South Central. I'm gettin' it in Beverly Hills, so I'm votin' in the Senate the way they want me to and--and--and I'm sendin' them my bills; but we got babies in South Central dyin' as young as they do in Peru. We got public schools that are nightmares. We got a Congress that ain't go a clue. We got kids with submachine guns. We got militias throwing bombs. We got Bill just gettin' all weepy. We got Newt blamin' teenage moms. We have factories closin' down. Where the hell did all the good jobs go? Well, I'll tell you where they went. My contributors make more profits makin', makin', makin', hirin' kids in Mexico. Oh, a brother can work in fast food if he can't invent computer games; but what we used to call America, that's going down the drains. How's a young man gonna meet his financial responsibilities working at motherfuckin' Burger King? He ain't! And please, don't even start with that school shit. There ain't no education goin' on up in that motherfucker. Obscenity? We got a million brothers in prison. I mean, the walls are really rockin'; but you can bet your ass they'd all be out if they could pay for Johnnie Cochran. the Constitution's supposed to give them an equal chance; Well, that ain't gonna happen for sure. Ain't it time to take a little from the rich motherfucker and just give a little to the poor? I mean, those boys over there on the monitor, they want a government smaller and weak; but they be speaking for the richest 20 percent, when they pretendin' they defendin' the meek. Now, shit, fuck, cocksucker. That's the real obscenity black folks livin' with every day is tryin' to believe a motherfuckin' word Democrats and Republicans say. Obscenity? I'm Jay Billington Bulworth and I've come to say The Democratic party's got some shit to pay. It's gonna pay it in the ghetto. It's gonna pay it in the--.

Interviewer: Senator, are you saying that the Democratic party doesn't care about the African American community?

Bulworth: Isn't that obvious? A lot of people think there are no black leaders today because they all got killed but I happen to think it's because of the decimation of the manufacturing base in the urban centers. Don't you think so? What do you think my age is?

Director [into headset to Interviewer]: He's had his time, flush him.

Bulworth: You know, the guy in the booth who's talking to you in that tiny little earphone? He's afraid the guys at network gonna tell him he's through if he lets a guy keep talking like I'm talking to you; cause the corporations got the network and they get to say who gets to talk about the country and who's crazy today. I would cut to a commercial if you still want this job because you may not be back tomorrow with this corporate mob. Cut to a commercial.

Director [into headset]: OK, flush 'em.

Bulworth: Cut to commercial, cut to commercial, cut to commercial, cut to commercial, cut to commercial. Ok, Ok, I got a simple question that I'd like to ask of this network that pays you of performing your task. How come they got the airwaves? They're the people's, aren't they?

[Interviewer scared, nodding in agreement]

Bulworth: Wouldn't they be worth 70 billion to the public today if some money-grubbin' Congress didn't give 'em away for big campaign money? It's hopeless, you see, if you runnin' for office without no TV, if you don't get big money you get a defeat, corporations and broadcasters make you dead meat. You been taught in this country there's speech that is free but free do not get you no spots on TV! If you want to have senators not on the take then give them free air time! THEY WON'T HAVE TO FAKE! Telecommunications is the name of the beast that, that, that, that, that's eatin' up the world from the West to the East. The movies, the tabloids, TV, and magazines. They tell us what to think and do and all our hopes and dreams. All this information makes America phat; but, if the company's out of the country how American is that? But we got Americans with families can't even buy a meal. Ask a brother who's been downsized if he's gettin' any deal, or a white boy bustin' ass till they put him hin his grave, he ain't gotta be a black boy to be livin' like a slave. Rich people have always stayed on top by dividing white people from colored people; but while people got more in common with colored people than they do with rich people. We just got to eliminate them.

Interviewer: Eliminate?

Bulworth: Eliminate.

Interviewer: Who, rich people?

Bulworth: White people. Black people, too. Brown people, yellow people. Get rid of 'em all. All we need is a voluntary, free-spirited, open-ended program of procreative racial deconstruction. Everybody just gotta keep fuckin' everybody till they're all the same color. I think it--it's gonna take a while, but uh--

[lighting rig falls down right behind Bulworth in an assassination attempt, ending the interview].