Almira Gulch 2020

November 6, 2020 Update

“Oh, what a world, what a world, who would have thought a good little girl like you could destroy my beautiful wickedness?”


For many years I’ve seen comparisons between the true believers in our current president and the faith of the populace and newcomer Dorothy in that wonderful Wizard of Oz. Seems I wasn’t alone because Kamala Harris, Jeanne Moos, Hillary Clinton back in the day, and surely millions of others, saw the similarities.

https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2019/09/13/kamala-harris-trump-small-dude-wizard-oz-comparison-sot-mxp-vpx.hln

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n87Eq9EY4To

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2016/jul/19/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-entrance-wizard-of-oz-video

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2020-09-29-billionaire-wizard-trump-exposed-as-a-tax-avoiding-wizard-of-oz/

Once exposed from behind the curtain, the mere mortal flimflam wizard makes sure to sweetly bestow a diploma, medal and heart-shaped testimonial on Dorothy’s three flawed companions before flying the coop in his hot air balloon. Sweetness? Bowing out gracefully?

Maybe I was looking in the wrong direction. It was not so nice Almira Gulch, soon to be the not so nice hag from the west, who “owned half the county” (although it does not appear that she was heavily leveraged), hated dogs, wasn’t against shouting a lot, and used the court system ad infinitum to get her way. Sure, she was pretty good on that bicycle, had good posture, and elocution, but I’m thinking she, and her melting alter ego, may well be the better fictional ancestors.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jcm4kwmz44

Times have changed. Here’s hoping that, unlike Auntie Em who held her tongue for twenty-three years, some of those “Christian women” will speak up on Tuesday after only four.