[Texas Federalist]

The movie did not transform a novel into a left wing political vehicle. Upton Sinclair was an avowed socialist who himself admitted that he wrote the novel Oil! only to portray capitalism (through Day’s character) and religion (through Dano’s) character as evil. If anything, the movie toned down these societal references.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

It's only about 5 years since we had The Lord of the Rings up against movies like A Beautiful Mind and Chicago. Things were already on a downtrend, but they are really abysmal now.

[Zionist Conspirator]

The movie did not transform a novel into a left wing political vehicle. Upton Sinclair was an avowed socialist who himself admitted that he wrote the novel Oil! only to portray capitalism (through Day’s character) and religion (through Dano’s) character as evil. If anything, the movie toned down these societal references.

Ironically, when Sinclair ran for governor of California in the Thirties it was poor rural whites from Oklahoma (the "Okies") he was counting on to vote him in. Yes folks, once upon a time there really was a "redneck left" (Woody Guthrie, anyone?). Nowadays if a poor rural white Okie voted for a Socialist Party candidate the candidate would reject the vote!