Posted on 07/23/2016 6:56:25 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
I'm interested in the opinions of anyone who saw Dinesh D'Souza's new documentary at its opening yesterday.
It was very well done, but it filled me with sadness in that I live in a very Republican area and the theatre had just a smattering of patrons. The small audience was enthusiastic, but we were too few for this high quality offering. I knew about half of the people there!
D'Souza's message was delivered to the choir.
The real exposure will be when it hits Netflix and the free streaming services.
The libs can’t be turned. It’s the fence setters that want to learn that will make the difference.
It’s already on IMBD.
He used a very clever literary device to tell the story. It starts out when he is sent to jail, and shows him getting to know the other inmates and learning about their outrageous cons. One of them told D’Souza that the biggest con artists in the country are the Democrats and it proceeds from there. It is very well done.
Good crowd in a small theater where I went, but probably all in the conservative choir. Good movie - D’Souza made his point, that the Clinton’s are really just thieving con-artists, joined to a political team with their evil deeds swept under other people’s rugs.
I saw it in early release. Sold out the first night so we had to come back the next day. Was being shown on multiple (large room) screens in the theater, and again the 7:00 show was sold out. Had to buy tickets for the 6:50. Large theater was very full, but not quite sold out. Audience stood through the last few scenes a sung together America the Beautiful. Then, to at least my surprise, D’Souza came into the theater with others from the Houston Republican Party. He thanked everyone and said a few words. He had to go greet the other theater so he couldn’t stay long. Excellent movie to take your kids to. Lots of history. Good for my kids to see it on the big screen from someone else, and not just from me.
There are freeper reviews on the thread below.
Box Office: Dinesh D’Souza’s ‘Hillary’s America’ Doc Strong in U.S. Debut
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3452001/posts
Consider if 100 liberals watch this movie and none of them votes differently in the next election. That's actually not necessary. No matter how much they deny or withdraw, the damage is done.
People generally don't all of a sudden change drastically when attached to a an ideology. What happens is it gets worn away, slowly.
If you talk to a bunch of former democrats who are now Trump voters - they won't say "I was totally democrat! Then I was totally for Trump!"
What they will say is 'gradually my party left me and betrayed me.' And in THEIR experience, it WAS gradual, and in their experience, the were over time betrayed.
In reality, it WAS over time, but slowly they started accepting a little bit of truth each time, and they experience these acceptances over time as if, at the time they accepted it, they were betrayed. It doesn't matter that it was always that way.
So - Dinesh will have moved every single democrat/liberal who sees it, even if he's moved none of them, THIS TIME, over the 'my party betrayed me' line.
Watch for the denial, watch for them being withdrawn (all my liberal neighbors are withdrawn whenever politics comes up.) Both withdrawal and denial are a symptom of something pushing into their brains that they don't want. Denial and Withdrawal are the attempt to resists it.
So let each 100 of not explicitly change their views enough to actual vote differently are speak out against the crimes revealed.
Know that exposure to truth (and captial T Truth) alters people, shifts them on the inside for a long time before they change form on the outside.
Therefore, be content with silence and denial, and no identifiable change.
I have a good friend who does't like politics (actually she probably just doesn't like talking about with someone who makes her feel uncomfortable about hers,) is very liberal in all the ways intellectual liberals are - she's a highly educated lawyer, who just refuses to use her brains potential to examine things when it comes to politics. And she's a humble person in general. She's just attached to her ideology - probably just picked it up unknowingly throughout college and working in the city all her life.
We watched Dinesh's last movie when it came out. She was just generally quiet, didn't want to talk about it. On occasions I spike her badly with something she believes that is outright illogical or internally incoherent. When people are killed in a political context, I softly point out the foundational beliefs and policies that led to those killings.
On a scale of 0 to 100, if 0 to 50 is voting dem and 51 to 100 is voting republican (I hate the republicans - but dems and republicans is what we have) ... she used to be a 7. Now she is probably a 43.
Repeated exposure to the truth is what has shifted her.
If, next week, I take her to see Hillary's America, and on the next day she says 'my party has betrayed me! I'm voting for Trump', it WILL NOT be because she saw the movie, even though the movie may be what pushed her over the line.
The movie will have moved her a few points, and that movement is entirely invisible. If it happens to be the internal movement that pushes past a certain line to where it becomes external - great.
The point is, other than denial and or withdrawn silence and a wish not to engage any further, do not expect any significant visible change when you expose a liberal to an irrefutable truth.
Our job can only be to, as happy warriors, be truth messengers ... we don't get to determine how resistant the recipients are, or which message is the one of thousands that makes them say "I was a democrat, but my party left me." In reality, no one left anyone - the left has never changed.
So ... don't be discouraged ... the ARE changed, permanently, they just haven't popped.
I drove from Atlanta to exurban Kennesaw to see it.
It will only be effective if it leaves exurbia and floods the Democrat areas...both white, Hispanic and Black Dem areas. If it just preaches to the choir it is a waste of time.
As for the content of the movie:
It was better done than Obamas America.
Dinesh needs to spend less time on himself and more on his story. The part about him needs to be tightened up.
More is needed about the role of Democrats and gun control in the 19th century.
Chicago and other Democrat controlled areas as plantations with parallels drawn between old and new plantations needs to be drawn more clearly.
The film should describe the history of Clinton but not get overtly political about voting against here. It would be more effective for the undecided to present the case and let them come to their own conclusion about whom to vote for.
The entire file needs to be tightened up with better editing.
I really like your analysis.
How many Dem voters did you get to know to form your opinion?
The reality is that vast numbers of both formerly Democrat voters and formerly Republican voters are now truly undecided. More so than any time in my 72 years, the field is ripe for missionaries to convert people to new belief systems and behaviors.
And my experience has been that vote can swing radically. In one suburb it swung from 77% Democrat to 87% Republican due solely to going from an anti-Hispanic establishment Republican to a pro-everyone Conservative Republican .....
and an effective ground game led by the Black pastor’s wife.
I’ve no doubt it is well done. Like I said, maybe a less abrasive title would attract a wider audience.
Thank you. I did a search, but nothing came up. What else is new?
God Bless the Houston area. I lived in a suburb of Houston when it still was 100% Democrat and watched it change over a period of 10 years until every office is the suburbs was held by Republicans. It was an amazing transformation. The big city, however, is still as left as left can be.
Maybe this?
Global Airing of ‘Clinton Cash’ Documentary on Breitbart with Email Sign-Up
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3452090/posts
Complimentary streaming of Clinton Cash this weekend! Courtesy of Breitbart.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3451954/posts
That’s a different documentary, I think. Probably worth watching, however. D’Souza had a little bit about the Clinton Foundation near the end of his movie. I’d like to see a whole lot more. Maybe he’ll guilt the FBI into opening a real investigation.
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