rats always ooze back

TCM showed Frank Capra's Mister Smith Goes to Washington a few days ago. Amazing how a 60-year-old movie still applies to what goes on today. You have Smith trying to get his message out about corruption, but his opponent controls the press, has the electronic media's personalities in his pocket and speaking against the hero. We even have fake 'spontaneous' campaigns telling Smith to step down.

One can be pessimistic and optimistic after watching that movie. Pessimistic because corruption always finds new ways to ooze its way back in. Optimistic because, bad as things can seem, eventually the rats get sent scurrying away.

(As for Capra being sappy... Considering that one of his most famous movies is about a man who spends his whole life denying himself his own wishes so that others can have a good life, and, on Christmas Eve, facing financial ruin, he contemplates suicide and instead literally stops existing... Sappy? I don't think so.)