First read my posts on June 20 about the movie Hard Times and then June 22 about Trump buying WWE Raw Wrestling.
My comment to Lee Ann's insightful post of Trump strategy.
I would guess WWE ratings will rise, hard to skyrocket from here but we shall see, movies were big in the depression for a few cents you could to inside and escape the depression for ninety minutes. WWE offers the same sort of thing coupled with a sort of rage revenge scenario that plays out in the good guy bad guy tag team wrestling match. This will likely resonate with the audience that grows more restless over job losses, this is what the get the big guys and their salaries is all bout, Obama is tag teaming corporate America, hmm good I ought to make that a blog post.
See my post on the movie Hard Times. June 20, Same thing. Okay I told you twice….
Indeed P T Barnum of circus fame made the comment that one would never go broke underestimating the taste of the American public. I should add a book on him to our reading list.
Summing up, in Hard Times attitudes grow hard. As I have mentioned here on several posts, it is only a matter of time until part of the country in relatively good shape, the SE, realizes it is literally supporting the part in bad shape, California and the midwest and New York. The Administration will really be risking its popularity if it chooses to 'bail out' California, a Dem laboratory for progressive ideas that have failed.
''Sports' which are really not sports at all like wrestling and roller ball seek to tap into this sort of social dissatisfaction. This is the ultimate good guy bad guy revenge game endlessly played out in the various personna that the wrestlers intentionally mimic. The Coliseum in Rome provided the same thing, ever see the Chariot Race in Ben Hur, an older movie but what an expensive scene. In that scene Charelton Heston drive, yep the gold and white chariot, the bad buy the black and red. Understanding the socionomic trends is key to success in public entertainment.
Nothing new under the sun as they say.
Professor Elam 
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