I own the DVD of PANIC IN YEAR ZERO. I’m a huge fan of post-apocalypse flicks and books, and have even sold more than one such story under my real name.
One aspect of the OWS thing that will help defeat them is that the Tea Party took action that directly impacted an election, while these folks are just kinda out there. The Tea Partiers were not ‘joiners’ so to speak, and were a NEW faction to be dealt with.
What will the OWS folks do? Start yet another leftist website when they all, 100% of em I guarantee, already belong to DU and Moveon?
I think they are serving the public by reminding the average voter that this is indeed Obama’s constituency, and his vocal support for them is stirring the same feelings as his first run. People who recall that feeling yet who gave Obama the benefit of the doubt will now realize they’re being set up for the last three years to be rerun. And they will vote accordingly.
Heh, heh, so you dig post-atomic futuramas like I do! “The Day the Earth Caught Fire” is similar but they’re all worth watching for their depiction of mass panic and breakdown of law & order. “The Last Man on Earth” was to me Vincent Price’s scariest horror flick; `what if that were me’ is what you ask when you watch it.
‘Course, I wsa there as a kid to see “Alas Babylon” on Playhouse 90, and to witness the great fallout shelter building craze (superb article in Smithsonian magazine on what they’re used for now) and several Twilight Zone episodes touched on nuclear aftermath. In a way it was fun because we knew the Soviets weren’t that stupid (atheists don’t do jihad all that well).
Anyway, I hope you’re right about the post-Obama swing voters having buyer’s remorse. Sounds like a solid conservative Republican will get their support and it’s the Dems who will have to try to seduce them a second time.