There's No Place Like Utopia

So if you've never seen a slow motion train wreck, pop this DVD into your player and catch an eyeful. By the way, you (and I, and so many of us in the US) are stuck on that train. Some forty days and nights from right now that hideous metal on metal sound you might be hearing should be one of the locomotive's wheels falling off. Why? Our near 19 trillion $ debt should just about be catching up to us by then. Is Big Government good, is socialism? The problem with socialism, according to Margaret Thatcher, is that it works until you run out of other people's money. Joel Gilbert seems none too impressed with socialism, and he builds a case against President Obama's socialist utopian agenda. Gilbert shows us how Detroit leaders' redistributionist vision has worked out for that city and its residents. Detroit is what it looks like after the train flew off the tracks. Gilbert's aproach isn't totally heavy-handed; he blends in some quirky humor to make the mix palatable. As I was watching this video, I figured that Obama supporters (and Democrats in general) probably would not be able to watch it to its conclusion. Inspired by this movie, I have a challenge to my liberal friends: go before your other liberal friends and criticize President Obama on some trivial to important point. Even if you don't feel it or believe it, just for kicks, criticize President Obama. It could be about his shoes, the pen he uses, his unaffordable care act; just criticize him in front of your other liberal friends. Maybe you can't do it; but if you do, prepare for the hurt and the hate coming your way, just for kicks. [Side note to Mr. Gilbert: The next time your big shaggy dog wants to greet you at the door, let him. What's it going to cost you, another 8 seconds of film time?]

Same guy who produced "Dreams From My REAL Father" made this film; Joel Gilbert. It's a semi-satirical look at how Socialism is creeping into every aspect of American lives and how the Obama Regime is trying to rush the USA into becoming the USSA. Gilbert shows how the failed progressive policies of the Democrats for the past 50 yrs have made things worse, not better in the USA . Gilbert shows some balls as he takes a copy of his movie; "Dreams From My REAL Father" and drops one off at Bill Ayers' and with the mother of Moochelle Obama at their Chicago homes.My only issue is the somewhat biased charges he lays on the Democrats for how many of the major cities in the USA have failed because of their socialist programs and policies. I can't speak to all the cities he shows in this documentary; but Detroit, in my experience, because I lived here most of my life, has been trashed not only by the failed policies and programs of the Democrats, but also greedy corporations, unions, racism - black and white - and peer pressure to live the suburban lifestyle. They all share in the blame for the downfall of Detroit; corrupt mayors, the UAW, AFSCME, SEIU, GM, Ford, Chrysler, the do-nothing-but-argue city council, unwillingness to get rid of the city income tax, and slumlords allowed to get away with not paying taxes or keeping their properties up, hamstrung or indifferent police, and people who would rather run from or ignore problems instead of helping to correct them. You may not agreed with the conclusions Gilbert has come to,however, you can't deny that urban USA is decaying and so is our standard of living. If we want to continue to have the lifestyle we have grown accustomed to, something needs to be done, soon, or we will become the 21st century version of the USSR....

This low budget film is flippant, but there is a messages about how big government programs have lots of unintended consequences and how people who depend on big government are more often let down than helped.I wish it would have been a little more scholarly perhaps drawing on those who have seen these problems coming many years ago or otherwise understood the importance of people interacting with each other in a free society is a much better societal model than big government using its heavy hand to promote crony capitalism (which many today wrongly equate to free market capitalism). Using some of the thoughts and ideas of Bastiat, Adam Smith, Hayek, etc. to show that these people predicted why big government is not the answer. Mr. Gilbert could have explained why the ideas of people such as Adam Smith were considered in the drafting of the U.S. Constitution.The video drew heavily on the failure of Detroit. It could have gone further and used illustrations from the failures of socialists countries around the world. It could have shown how modern socialist countries that are heralded as successes by the left have had to undergo modification from their original plans and move towards freer, less government-controlled societies or fail.These are some opportunities lost.In any event, this video should promote some thought and perhaps some discussion. I am sure it will make some people steam because it pointedly goes after Mr. Obama when it should have aimed at a generally uneducated electorate who put people like Mr. Obama and many other past presidents and representatives into office. More specifically he could have delved into why some of the folks he interviewed in Detroit keep voting the same way generation after generation and keep getting the shaft generation after generation.

Nothing really new here for the already enlightened, but makes a great gift to pass onto sheeple, not that the majority really cares or believes this stuff anyway....bless em'.

Excellent expose' of the motives & long term ideological plans for a sly, deadly, totalitarian endgame in the USA & other 'free' controlled countries by the NWO & their brainwashed useful idiots.