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10 Things I Learned From Eavesdropping on Conservatives Talking About ‘America’ At the Movie Theater
Ring of Fire Radio starring Robert F. Kennedy, Jr ^ | July 9, 2014 | Chauncey DeVega

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 D’Souza.

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 D’Souza’s 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 D’Souza’s 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 D’Souza’s newest creation and 2) “America’s”view 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 their–and America: Imagine the World Without Her’s real nemesis–Saul 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 D’Souza’s movie has special knowledge–that the viewer is now obligated to share in order to counter “liberal lies” and “bias”–was 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 textbook–the latter is supposedly full of lies that will be exposed by D’Souza’s “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 Alinsky–a “communist America hating traitor”–met 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 Americans–unlike him–are 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 Darwin’s 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 “America’s” 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 Her’s 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 Her’s 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 GOP’s madness. Consequently, the movie’s real social value is how it serves as an insight into the paranoid style and conspiranoid fantasies that have possessed the Right-wing’s foot soldiers and public–and which are a threat to all Americans’ safety, security, and prosperity.


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Government; Politics; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: america; blacks; dsouza; movies; racism; teaparty
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To: NFHale

Being There
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Being_There


41 posted on 07/14/2014 11:24:40 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“...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.”

Oh that kooky liberal racism on display again.

Black conservative = pet.

Black leftist that cant even articulate why they are even voting for Obama at 95% = totally independent thinker.


42 posted on 07/14/2014 11:29:28 AM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: kevslisababy

I thought it was satire until I Got to the end


43 posted on 07/14/2014 11:29:44 AM PDT by albertabound
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Who put the nickel in HIM!


44 posted on 07/14/2014 11:30:34 AM PDT by SMARTY ("When you blame others, you give up your power to change." Robert Anthony)
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To: Tigerized
We really need two countries. These people are irretrievable, given their mindsets.

Truly.

There are plenty here on FR who think we're headed in that direction already.

45 posted on 07/14/2014 11:30:36 AM PDT by wbill
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; All
just another Black Racist/Marxist twit, just move along.
it's their typ. "Bathhouse" 0'Muslim's racist rant.

46 posted on 07/14/2014 11:33:36 AM PDT by skinkinthegrass (The end move in politics is always to pick up a weapon...0'Jihadist/"Rustler" Reid? d8-)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“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”. “

Isn’t that cute, the left thinks we care what they say.


47 posted on 07/14/2014 11:35:39 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (The cure has become worse than the disease. Support an end to the WOD now.)
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To: NFHale
It's a reference to the movie Being There starring Peter Sellers.
Apparently liberals thought it was a blueprint for political success.

"Being There" Movie Trailer starring Peter Sellers

Apparently they were right.

48 posted on 07/14/2014 11:35:49 AM PDT by TigersEye ("No man left behind" means something different to 0bama.)
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To: kevslisababy

Most of them on that side of the spectrum are...

They can’t conceive of the fact that anyone dares to have an idea different than their own.


49 posted on 07/14/2014 11:36:34 AM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: F15Eagle

Sandford and Son!


50 posted on 07/14/2014 11:36:57 AM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Got it!

Sorry... I’m dense on Mondays...


51 posted on 07/14/2014 11:37:25 AM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Another true believer of Rev Wright’s black liberation theology has a meltdown.


52 posted on 07/14/2014 11:39:42 AM PDT by TADSLOS (The Event Horizon has come and gone. Buckle up and hang on.)
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To: VanDeKoik
Black conservative = pet.

Black liberal = Mr. Bo Jangles.

Chauncey De Vega does a mean soft shoe on dat ole Democrat Plantation.

53 posted on 07/14/2014 11:39:57 AM PDT by TigersEye ("No man left behind" means something different to 0bama.)
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To: NFHale

He is a firm believer that the ONLY reason to criticize Obama is because he is half black and that EVERYTHING Obama has done is perfect.


54 posted on 07/14/2014 11:41:37 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (The cure has become worse than the disease. Support an end to the WOD now.)
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To: VanDeKoik

The ‘Black conservative pet’ comment really infuriated me. This guy lives on the Democrat Plantation so he is oblivious to free thinking Blacks. He is completely owned but doesn’t recognize that fact. Poor ignorant fool.


55 posted on 07/14/2014 11:41:41 AM PDT by originalbuckeye (Moderation in temper is always a virtue; moderation in principle is always a vice. Paine)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Is this satire?

Reads like something from "The Onion" or "Semi-Serious News".

Liberals or Progressives have turned into cartoon characters.

56 posted on 07/14/2014 11:46:41 AM PDT by sjmjax (Politicans are much like bananas. They start off green, turn yellow then rot.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“7. I also learned that Margaret Sanger was in cahoots with Charles Darwin’s brother, and that they were all eugenicists who pioneered abortion in America as a “racist” tool for “liberals” to kill black babies.”

This is a quote meant to ridicule the notion that Sanger was, by her own comments and actions, strongly dedicated to Black eugenics, among other “less desirable” races.

But the idea that this ignorant piece of crap was ignorant of same...why, that’s OK. No embarrassment about being completely uninformed. Throw it in with those other radical extremist things you’re uninformed but yet, so “cool” about.


57 posted on 07/14/2014 11:49:22 AM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (At no time was the Obama administration aware of what the Obama administration was doing)
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To: TigersEye

Got it! Thank you, friend.


58 posted on 07/14/2014 11:50:40 AM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

“...He is a firm believer...”

Like I said... a Tool.

A very dull tool at that.


59 posted on 07/14/2014 11:51:21 AM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

This is the second leftist diatribe in two days that I have seen in which the “Tea Party” as “religion” idea has been served up. That is a pretty good indication that the leftists have been talking about this line and it will become the next propaganda campaign theme.


60 posted on 07/14/2014 11:53:59 AM PDT by Cap Huff
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