Written by Bill Flanagan
Directed by Mary Wharton
Featuring Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, Garth Brooks, Roseanne Cash, Madeleine Albright and Trisha Yearwood
Running time: 1 hour and 38 minutes
Unrated: contains discussions of drug and alcohol use

by Benjamin Leonard, Best Boy

I was born in the first year of the Carter Presidency. I don’t really have many memories until Reagan took office. Once that happened, Jimmy was kinda a laughing stock. Reagan won the popular vote by nearly 10% and the electoral college was 489 for Reagan and 49 for Carter. The country had decided that they were not better off, did not have less unemployment, weren’t as strong and were not as respected around the world as they were before Jimmy Carter became president. I remember the joke being that his solution to the oil crisis was to wear a sweater. People exclaimed, “What a joke!” America decided that we wanted to fight to gain access to that oil. Why waste your time conserving non-renewable resources when we can just start wars and topple governments in an effort to gobble up every last drop?