Not much has changed since May 4, 1970. Free speech is still brutally, illegally, and unconstitutionally suppressed with force.
Roseanne Barr satirizes the neocon ideology and actor Vigo Morgenson gives a deadly serious speech, along with soldiers and parents of fallen soldiers. A few military heavyweights also take the podium, including Colonel Ann Wright.
Organized Republicans invade his speeches, chanting "Four more years!" Moore quips, "You say four more years, but I hear four more wars."  His fans laugh the Bushites into submission.  A creepy segment shows organized youths standing, holding hands, and loudly intoning Christian prayers, while Moore tries to speak.  He effectively responds, "Hey, let me ask you a question. What would Jesus bomb?"
Parodying a line from A League of Their Own at the end of the film, he laughs and says to a crowd, "There's no crying in politics!"  Nor should we scapegoat voters for Bush remaining in the White House. Bush was never elected, Michael; not by Floridians in 2000 nor by Ohioans in 2004.Â
In six weeks, 95% of the nation's voters will vote on computers that can be hacked without detection.  Software, by its nature, is undetectably mutable. If Michael Moore can condemn mainstream media for failing to do its job, for parroting White House lies that led us into war, he should also demand that media not report as fact what cannot be proven, or has not been independently verified.  I mean election results. Dave Berman of Humboldt, California makes this point with clarity in a recent speech.
Slacker Uprising's effectiveness in motivating our youth is not for naught, however. If the rallying cry to vote Â- even in a sham system Â- unifies the youth into action, then the film should be promoted far and wide. With fewer years of being propagandized, they might more easily recognize the false hope of our corporate-sponsored government that fails on all social measures. As walls are built to enclose us, as spies track our movements and conversations, as wealth is further concentrated, it will be the youth who respond.Â
If Michael Moore is the one who unites them, even with the deception of voting in a rigged system, then so be it. Who else on the Left has reached the youth the way he has?Â
Last updated on Sept. 25, 2008.
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