Posted on 07/14/2014 11:02:05 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
America: Imagine the World Without Her is the newest propaganda hit piece from confessed criminal and Right-wing operative Dinesh DSouza.
During my weekly visit to the movies, I saw Deliver Us From Evil. It was a movie with great potential (the connection to PTSD and the demons that our veterans carry home with them from war could have been more thoroughly developed) that needed a thorough rewrite and editing. I am a sucker for movies about the supernatural and occult. Therefore, I felt obligated to see Deliver Us From Evil.
Dinesh DSouzas new documentary America was also playing at the same movie theater (I had already suffered through a viewing of that Right-wing tract). Thus, I decided to do some reconnaissance/observational research on the attendees of DSouzas newest fairy tale propaganda hit piece.
The actual members of the Right-wing public who are high on the political meth of the Fox News echo chamber are more fascinating to me than the media which is used to create and propagandize them.
While listening to the impromptu debriefing and cult meeting in the lobby that followed a viewing of America: Imagine the World Without Her, I realized that 1) Deliver Us From Evil is far less frightening than DSouzas newest creation and 2) Americasview of empirical reality and history is also supernatural, existing outside of the realm of normal logic and reality.
Talking in the abstract about the dangerous and noxious civic culture which has been created by the Right-wing media is one thing; actually listening to and observing this public in person is an altogether different experience. There is nothing harmless about the impact of the Right-wing propaganda machine on the thinking and reasoning processes of conservatives in the Age of Obama.
As I learned earlier this week, their warped logic and skewed perception of social and political reality is extremely dangerous and can/will lead to more incidents of Right-wing domestic violence, because how else would a reasonable person deal with a government that is led by traitors and under the control of Satan?
What did I observe while listening to the people who went to see America: Imagine the World Without Her?
1. The small group of people who attended America: Imagine the World Without Her here in Chicago skewed older (50s to 70s). It was, surprisingly, a racially integrated group with several black and brown folks mixing in comfortably with the white viewers.
2. America seemed like a reverential and defiant experience for the viewers. Interpreting their chatter, it seemed that they were excited to stick it to Obama by seeing America: Imagine the World Without Her in his home town. The Right-wing troglodytes were also worked up about the fact that theirand America: Imagine the World Without Hers real nemesisSaul Alinsky, is also a Chicago native.
3. An African-American man, a black conservative, led the sermon/cult meeting in the lobby of the movie theater. Playing the standard role of black conservative in contemporary movement conservatism, his presence gave permission to the other members of the group to talk freely about Barack Obama without the fear of being labeled as racists.
4. America: Imagine the World Without Her is a cinematic conduit for standard Right-wing talking points. The power of America is rooted in the shared group experience that comes with going to the cinema. The Right-wing echo chamber is a fantastical and bizarre world where the paranoid style and conspiranoid thinking is the norm. This effect is amplified by the face-to-face communal experience of attending the same propaganda film. The insider and special knowledge given to them by America can then be disseminated by the elect to the non-believers.
The idea that DSouzas movie has special knowledgethat the viewer is now obligated to share in order to counter liberal lies and biaswas repeated by several of the people leaving the theater.
5. America: Imagine the World Without Her should be taught in public schools as a corrective to the indoctrination of the state and liberal teachers. One viewer enthusiastically suggested to another member of the tribe that kids should be given a choice between America: Imagine the World Without Her and their standard history textbookthe latter is supposedly full of lies that will be exposed by DSouzas truths.
6. The black conservative suggested to his congregation that Obama is the devil and a tool of Satan. I was unsure how those two figures are related to one another in his cognitive schema. He also said that the movie was powerful for showing in clear terms how Saul Alinskya communist America hating traitormet with Hillary Clinton at some point decades ago and has been orchestrating the destruction of America from behind the scenes.
In playing his role as black gatekeeper who grants permission to his fellow conservatives to be racists, the black conservative cult leader used the rhetorical strategy of code switching where he adopted black affected speech to talk about how he works in the hood and that black Americansunlike himare brainwashed and controlled by Obama and the Democratic Party.
Of course, the obligatory talking point, that the Democratic Party is the party of Jim and Jane Crow was referenced as part of his performance.
7. I also learned that Margaret Sanger was in cahoots with Charles Darwins brother, and that they were all eugenicists who pioneered abortion in America as a racist tool for liberals to kill black babies.
8. America was apparently a Christian Nation at the Founding and the United States has been ruined by godless liberals led by Barack Obama. The United States will apparently be destroyed unless the Bible and biblical values are renewed and made the center of public and private life.
9. There were white indentured servants in the American colonies. This is an important part of Americas narrative as that fact somehow makes chattel slavery a less unique and less vicious social institution as practiced for centuries in the United States.
10. What did the lone white conservative do during this cult meeting/debriefing? He was quiet. He nodded enthusiastically when the black conservative would speak. The lone white conservative also smiled and seemed very pleased when his black conservative pet said that black people have been tricked and brainwashed by Obama and the Democratic Party.
America: Imagine the World Without Hers oeuvre is not new. It is a cinematic version of the Right-wing talking points and lies that are circulated on a daily basis throughout the Fox News echo chamber.
Epistemic closure is a real phenomenon. America: Imagine the World Without Her is a helpful reminder of how the use of technical and social scientific language often masks the real human experiences that underlie and are spoken to by theory and research.
To point. The audience members who I observed after their viewing of America were enjoying the sense of community that comes with encountering like-minded people a feeling that is amplified if you have been told that you are somehow oppressed or marginalized by the system, liberals, big government, atheists, etc..
America: Imagine the World Without Hers lies and disinformation are poisons to our civic culture. However, I was most disturbed by seeing living and breathing examples of the people who have been brainwashed by the Right-wing media. Interacting with online trolls is tedious. Seeing online trolls made real, in person, alive, and not as ephemeral digital representations, is a reminder of how serious these political matters actually are.
Contemporary movement conservatism is a cult and religion. Its believers are immune to normal appeals to logic and fact. America: Imagine the World Without Her is a crystallization of Right-wing fantasies and distortions presented through the cinematic imagination. It is an artifact of the Tea Party GOPs madness. Consequently, the movies real social value is how it serves as an insight into the paranoid style and conspiranoid fantasies that have possessed the Right-wings foot soldiers and publicand which are a threat to all Americans safety, security, and prosperity.
I am sure that the top criminal slick willy is at the top of his “criminal not to be believed list”! lol
A mind is a terrible thing to waste.
I believe that he was advanced in the ranks of politics precisely because he is articulate off-the-cuff as well as behind a Teleprompter. He has seduced the likes of George Soros to divert from supporting Hillary to supporting Obama in 2008. He appears well in his interviews in the sense that he appears presidential. He performed well enough in all his the dates except one debate against Mitt Romney. He projects "gravitas."
Obama is not stupid, he is not inarticulate, he is malevolent.
He is not Valerie Jarrett's puppet, they mutually use each other to reinforce their worldview. He wants her to keep the barbarians outside the gate and knows exactly what she is doing.
We make a gross error if we continue to judge Obama as someone who is bumbling from crisis to crisis and speaking only as a sock puppet. He is engineering crises and exploiting crises fully in concert with the likes of Valerie Jarrett and the Attorney General Holder but not as the stooge of anyone, Valerie Jarrett included.
Barack Obama is an empty suit in the sense that he has not personally accomplished anything other than winning elections to warrant his office. He got his office by virtue of his ability to seduce people-a typical trait of a narcissist. He uses Valerie Jarrett just the she uses him-two narcissists in a symbiotic relationship. We make a fatal error when we think Barack Obama is stupid, he is not. He Got through Harvard Law School with very little background by virtue of his wits. He has been living on his wits all his life and he has substituted that for genuine accomplishment.
He is an empty suit, a narcissist who knows how to con people. He is not stupid, he is not inarticulate, he is dangerous.
Chauncey DeVega writes an entire article about the people who saw a movie, without actually seeing the movie.
Childish, at best.
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