Reagan in Vineland WAS Re: MDMD: Lambton Worm

jbor:
>The scene's not a simplistic anti-Reagan
>screed at all.

Not simplistic, no, yet still a serious indictment of Reagan.  Here in
Vineland we have a little family here that's been thoroughly corrupted and
fucked over by the Reagan Administration, these good people find themselves
in the "trailer trash" (jbor's endearing phrase) category as a result of
the concerted attacks of the Reagan & Co., that paragon of homespun
American values.   (High-class crooks like Ralph Wayvone actually get to
rub shoulders with the likes of Ronnie and Nancy in their security-guarded
California paradise).  Only in actively resisting the best efforts of the
Reagan Administration does the family find some measure of happiness, and
then only after a rather miraculous deus ex machina intervention that
protects Prairie from her worst instincts which have been drilled into her
by the TV culture that created Reagan.