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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI salute Michael Moore on his best and incredibly timely film yet ----"Where to invade next"
This film is released at a very critical time. Bernie Sanders potential candidacy may be looming, I for one am hoping for it and helping to bring it about. Many are questioning if the supposed revolutionary proposed changes Bernie proposes are possible, and if he can win.
The answers to the doubters sound like: "We are strong and wealthy, we can do anything we want to do, and others have long ago done it for less money" yet those answers don't sufficiently convince us Americans who are programmed to think in terms of taxes and dollars and self.
This film is proof these answers are not throwaways without foundation, they are being validated by Michael Moore as he jets around to many countries, one by one, with visuals, interviews, and solid proof that everything Bernie Sanders proposes is already established and integrated in many places around the world, and that people revolting have helped make them happen. Those changes are along the lines of making lives easier, happier, less stressful, more peaceful, and with much healthy co-operative energies towards our fellow men and neighbors. A "we" oriented life instead a "me" oriented one. And not only that, Mr. Moore ties it all together by showing us that many of the basic ideas for these more evolved ways to live are actually our own American based ideas, we simply did not manage to implement them. They got imported into other countries, fought for, and ultimately realized.
Every American voter needs to see this film a week or so before they vote on anything in our elections. Every school child of about 12 and up should see it with a cushion of good teaching, and a solid discussion and answer session. It is a film that educates not only about what is possible and already happening, but also about taking responsibility for failing to atone for our history, and therefore being stuck with little clarity and little ability to move forward.
I want to recommend this film to all of us, it will hopefully solidify some of our arguments to those who question. I want us to examine ourselves, and I want every one who is moved by it to recommend this film personally to whoever we know needs to see it.
I love Michael Moore's humor and approach. Always have.
But this film, more than any of his others, is leaving me in palpable pain. And it is a pain that can be alleviated, bit by bit, by allowing the light of what we can become shine through.
I grew up in Germany, I lived there til I was 20. I was a part of a really poor family of 7 children, one of my many jobs was to line up the potato each person got by size. but the excellent health and dental care we had was not a subject discussed at the dinner table. It was a given. I can personally attest to the family that I left behind having the care and "socialist" government assistance that is portrayed in MMoore's film, and that they expect it, shrug at the non-issue of it, and are aghast that I don't have it now as I live in the "promised land" that calls itself Number One.
Let's get real!
It will take a revolution, continuation of piecemeal action will not get us to any semblance of the promised land. We must get a move on and make it happen.
postulater
(5,075 posts)Good movie.
a la izquierda
(11,795 posts)dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)you make excellent point of what we are missing.
love your image of Bernie, too
Luminous Animal
(27,310 posts)I want to see it again.
Mira
(22,380 posts)and also that you liked it. I just got through telling a group of women about how important it is to see it, and I also am planning to see it again.
mnhtnbb
(31,399 posts)You can find it in a theater near you from the website by putting in your zip code.
http://wheretoinvadenext.com/
kairos12
(12,865 posts)to get the message.