Boogaloo?

Back along the end of 1983....some folks come up with a marginal script, and some cash....to make this movie, which comes out in early 1984.  The name of the movie?  Breakin'. 

I know....no one much remembers the movie.  The basic idea?  Blacks, break-dancing, urbanized background, music, and a dance competition.  Oddly, it ends up making 38-million and returns a fair amount of profit off a small amount of investment money.

Folks get excited, over the profits.  So they decide to make Breakin' #2, which is also called Electric Boogalo.  It basically has no real script, and doesn't connect to the original movie.  It's pumped out seven months after the original.....in hopes of repeating the 38-million return.  It makes barely 15-million and is mostly deemed a marginal success.

However, because there is a us-versus-them story....Boogaloo becomes a term used people who they are talking about creating a 'war' against the government (yes, basic revolution is Boogaloo). 

For some odd reason, since 1984, the cult people have hung onto Breakin' #2 and this whole marginal script, and the idea of Boogaloo.

So with the internet around, Boogaloo grew over the past two decades.  People are attracted to the idea of a revolutionary war coming to America.

There are probably forty different groups which have curiosity over this (pro-gun, pro-revolution, pro-far-right, etc).

What this revolves around?  You need some event to occur, and suddenly civil war would occur, and all your problems would be cured in a matter of months.  Total collapse of the US government and civilization. 

To be honest, even some far-left groups are interested in the idea, and they might even go to the extent of creating fake-right-wing groups....to help facilitate the coming 'war'.

The problem here...back in mid-March of this year....police went to a no-knock situation in Maryland....to arrest a group leader of a Boogaloo group, and the raid ended up with the dude dead.  The guy has become a symbol for the group, and probably 'woke' up thousands to centralize their theme.  Without the internet, the group would collapse. That kinda gives you an idea of where this problem is going.

So a cop in Oakland was shot in the two weeks....in the chaos of Antifa, and the police now have arrested an Air Force SSgt....who was a participant of Boogaloo.  Yes, they even exist in the military.  The charges?  Murder. 

I sat and pondered over this.  In 1969, Charlie Manson had this basic idea in his head of a massive chaos to come....civil war with the blacks involved....and revolution would reset all values in America.  It's the same basic idea that Charlie had.

It's a nutty thing....to come down from a 1-star movie, and a bunch of folks hyped up to feel revolution will resolve all their problems.  You'd almost think they were on drugs or something.