I wonder who picked Richard Nixon as his running mate? Doubt DDE chose him.

Hell, the FBI investigated!

Check out these pages:

https://archive.org/details/FBI-Communist-Infiltration-Motion-Picture-Industry/100-HQ-138754-1003/page/n297/mode/2up

"With regard to the picture “It’s A Wonderful Life”, [redacted] stated in substance that the film represented a rather obvious attempt to discredit bankers by casting Lionel Barrymore as a “scrooge-type” so that he would be the most hated man in the picture. This, according to these sources, is a common trick used by Communists.

In addition, [redacted] stated that, in his opinion, this picture deliberately maligned the upper class, attempting to show the people who had money were mean and despicable characters. [Redacted] related that if he had made this picture portraying the banker, he would have shown this individual to have been following the rules as laid down by the State Bank Examiners in connection with making loans.

Further, [redacted] stated that the scene wouldn't have “suffered at all” in portraying the banker as a man who was protecting funds put in his care by private individuals and adhering to the rules governing the loan of that money rather than portraying the part as it was shown. In summary, [redacted] stated that it was not necessary to make the banker such a mean character and “I would never have done it that way”."

Somehow, the Capra message got through to a lot of us.

had it been depicted the other way around. There would be no one in the theater at the end of the movie, as people would walk out the as the movie continued. Had the audience stayed, they would have booed and asked for their money back!
What? Pay for their advertising? Pft' ! Get outta he-ah!

J. Edger Hoover became Director of the FBI in 1937. Now we get to have Kash Patel. A whole new set of investigations, just as misguided and damaging but with the added insult of stupidity.

He stole the eight thousand dollars when he finds Uncle Billy's deposit at the bank wrapped in newspaper and uses that shortfall as an excuse to turn state regulators on Bailey Building & Loan. If that scene doesn't happen, George has no reason to consider suicide in the first place. If Capra had shown Potter as being a wealthy banker with upstanding morals, rather than a man who uses his position of power in the town to leverage more power and money for himself, there would have been no movie.

We will win, they will lose.

Good always prevails.

Power prevails. It also changes hands, and then prevails again.

It never goes out of style. And I believe good will eventually triumph over evil, even now.

tRump = Potter.

The Trumpian overtones are pretty strong, though. One question - what happens to Mr. Potter? He doesn't appear in the happy final scene. I assume he's back at the bank, counting his money.

It was when Joe Wilson defied the Cheney claim of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, and then Wilson was attacked but fought back.

I found this image and it just seemed appropriate with this description:

"Joe Wilson confronts Dick Cheney while Scooter Libby looks on."

http://tiny.cc/d191001

not understand the moral of that story and not try to be more generous and caring of others?

It used to comfort me that we live in a country where people don't have to show their papers

Inexplicably the Pottersville sequence was cut. It goes from Clarence drying off in front of the stove to George B!ailey shouting "Merry Christmas'"

We own the DVD. Thank goodness

Not after the year we've had, and what we're facing. I'm in no mood for that much Hollywood cheeriness.

Maybe next year. Maybe four years from now. Maybe.

said to little Timmy before the zombies ate him.