A good review of why the recent election was not a win for the Democrats, for democracy, for the people and the values set forth by MLK. I am really upset with Michael Moore who believes that the election was a great win for the Democrats.
I loved Roger and Me and other MM films but he has taken progressive sheep-dogging for the Dems to a level I didn't know existed. It is truly bizarre imho.
I saw several of his films and also found them very good. I started to listen to his podcast, Rumble with Michael Moore, when the pandemic started. He was very good about the pandemic and Bernie Sanders, but went off the wall with his praise of the Democrats and their "amazing win" during the last election. My guess he is comparing them to Trump/Republicans and feels they are the much superior alternative, while ignoring all their faults.
I also sent him a copy of your column, to emphasize that not everyone agrees with him and that are other ways of looking at the results of the recent election.
A good analogy for MM is Charles Dickens. Roger and Me is a brilliant moral fable on the evil of a CEO and a company. Mike goes to the CEO and asks him to be better, more human, caring --- to have the spiritual transformation Scrooge has in A Christimas Carol. A consistent theme in Dickens is benevolent elite saviors, like Mr. Brownlow in Oliver Twist. Marx and his family loved Dickens' brilliant portrayal and satirizatiron of bourgeois hypocrisy but for them it was going to take a proletarian rebellion and indeed revolution against a whole system/capitalism. Mike wants us to vote for Dems to make things better for us from the top down. Our main agency is ....um, voting for ruling class politicians. I like Mike but nope, I'm a revolutionary socialist.
A good review of why the recent election was not a win for the Democrats, for democracy, for the people and the values set forth by MLK. I am really upset with Michael Moore who believes that the election was a great win for the Democrats.
I loved Roger and Me and other MM films but he has taken progressive sheep-dogging for the Dems to a level I didn't know existed. It is truly bizarre imho.
I saw several of his films and also found them very good. I started to listen to his podcast, Rumble with Michael Moore, when the pandemic started. He was very good about the pandemic and Bernie Sanders, but went off the wall with his praise of the Democrats and their "amazing win" during the last election. My guess he is comparing them to Trump/Republicans and feels they are the much superior alternative, while ignoring all their faults.
I also sent him a copy of your column, to emphasize that not everyone agrees with him and that are other ways of looking at the results of the recent election.
A good analogy for MM is Charles Dickens. Roger and Me is a brilliant moral fable on the evil of a CEO and a company. Mike goes to the CEO and asks him to be better, more human, caring --- to have the spiritual transformation Scrooge has in A Christimas Carol. A consistent theme in Dickens is benevolent elite saviors, like Mr. Brownlow in Oliver Twist. Marx and his family loved Dickens' brilliant portrayal and satirizatiron of bourgeois hypocrisy but for them it was going to take a proletarian rebellion and indeed revolution against a whole system/capitalism. Mike wants us to vote for Dems to make things better for us from the top down. Our main agency is ....um, voting for ruling class politicians. I like Mike but nope, I'm a revolutionary socialist.