I watched it again. The whole thing from start to finish. I am more disillusioned now than ever. Why? NOTHING HAS CHANGED SINCE 1936. The government is just as corrupt as ever and men are just as evil only the names and the methods have changed.
The movie is available at Archive.org for some reason and for how long I don’t know.
https://archive.org/details/MrSmithGoesToWashington1939480x360
My wife had Gov. Mary Fallon [another perfectly bad waste of good air and space, a has been washed up aging once upon a time someone that looked and smelled good enough to get noticed] giving the state of the state of Oklahoma address. That to has never changed either: Never enough money, need to raise taxes, teachers need raises. Nothing ever changes in this state either. I’ve heard all these complaints and whining from as early as I can remember and that has been more than 50 years as an adult.
Writers write, talkers talk and politicians politic. If nobody reads, listen or believes / needs they are all just as useless as they really are.
I have seen it all and nothing at the core of the onion ever gets better. It is all rotten and stinks.
Thankfully you’re wrong. The poison of this movie is the control of information through the newspaper. Those days are over.
Bkmk
It is worse today. I don’t think FBI and DOJ were thoroughly corrupt in 1936.