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5 Movies That Perfectly Explain Why America Is So F***d Up
So you want to know everything that really matters about America, but you don’t feel like sitting through a couple of years of college-level history classes. I get it and I got you covered. Not everybody digs the college scene. Some people just aren’t into the pretense or the formality of it all. Besides, who really wants to carry around a six-figure debt for decades without the guarantee of an even bigger six-figure income to pay it off? The student-debt industrial complex is a bitch, and I applaud anyone who figured out how to educate themselves without falling into that financial abyss. Take my word for it; it ain’t cute when Sallie Mae stops making polite phone calls and starts slapping you around like a pimp who thinks you’re holding out on the cash.
Even though nobody really wants that debt or that headache, everybody wants to be informed about the country they live in; or at least feel like they know what time it is. And everybody likes movies. Fortunately, there is great conjunction of all these infallible truths, and this is it: I am submitting my selection of 5 Movies That Perfectly Explain Why America Is So Fucked Up to the court of public opinion. I realize I have…