Posted on 03/03/2018 7:12:31 AM PST by Az Joe
Last night I watched “Paper Heads,” a 1995 documentary about Communism in what was then Czechoslovakia. It mixed propaganda films from the regime with testimony from people who had been tortured in communist prisons, or whose relatives had been abused in some way by the state. It was a crude but very powerful film. All that talk about brotherhood and shared prosperity and justice concealed cruelty, injustice, and murder of those who stood between the Party and Paradise. The most chilling part of the film, at least to me, were the clips of the 1950s show trials. The rhetoric from the judges and prosecutors, and the narration by the state media announcer, denounced the accused as traitors, parasites, enemies of the people, and so forth. And these poor people, dignified but clearly in terror, confessed to their “crimes” and received the death penalty. Only in this way could the worker’s paradise be built, or so it was claimed by the communists in the film.
Just now I read David Brooks’s column today about how progressives are winning the culture war. Brooks had recommended earlier a moderate approach to advancing gun control, beginning with treating gun owners with respect. He now concedes that he might have been wrong about that. Excerpt:
Have you or anyone else here seen an English subtitle version of Paper Heads?
I’ve looked around and cannot find it.
BTW, thanks for this informative post!
Have you or anyone else here seen an English subtitle version of Paper Heads?
I’ve looked around and cannot find it.
BTW, thanks for this informative post!
These are basically my best friends and, BTW, favorite FReepers.
You got a problem with that?
You got a problem with that?
If they hate President Trump like that guy Rod Dreher, then yes!
Detail.
aka, "Watermelon lefties"...Green on the outside, red on the inside"
You seem to use the word “hate” to mean, “disagree with on some points.”
One sees so much of that on the Left.
Two things have fundamentally changed the landscape. First, over the past two years conservatives have self-marginalized. In supporting Donald Trump they have tied themselves to a man whose racial prejudices, sexual behavior and personal morality put him beyond the pale of decent society.
Brooks is worse than a Liberal
One sees so much of that on the Left.
The writer wrote, "Mike Huckabee — has made a fool of himself with his Trumpishness..."
That is not just disagreement.
That doesn't make me a "Trumop hater" and I don't think that would make anybody a Trump-hater.
Unless "hate" is now going to apply to any noticeable difference in style or substance.
The all-purpose "hate" labels is about worn out. I save it for the people who are not just annoying, but actually hateful.
It is inspiring to have finally a President that doesn't roll over and play dead when the globalist cabal with its complicit media attacks. Your lefthanded two-faced support doesn't impress me much.
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