For most of its duration, this entertainiing documentary seems
to aim at the "both sides are identical in that they are equally
indebted to corporations" logic until the very end when the Bush
bashing starts which doesn't favor the democrats as much as it
illustrates the absurdity of the 2000 election. In a no win situation it
always seems prescient in afterthought to impale the winner. At first this stance appears inconsistent until it becomes clear
that this film proposes the Green Party and Ralph Nader as a the
supposed solution to this both sides bad pardigm . The bloom is far off the rose for this argument because it was
Nader who in fact enabled the "victory" of Bush thus underscoring
the danger of naivete and over simplification during the electoral
process. The jingoistic attitude of America continues to this very
writing. Now, much thanks to Nader and political thinking like the left
leaning bias ultimately revealedin this film, we have ironically
arrived at Bush and a war about which the spy novelist / cold
warrior John LeCarre has written; " Don't pretend that this is not
religiously based. Don't pretend this is not a crusade. Don't
pretend this isn't about oil. Don't pretend this isn't about making a
fortune and keeping the American people on their heels in fear"
Aside from that Mrs Lincoln, it was a pretty good play. six
to aim at the "both sides are identical in that they are equally
indebted to corporations" logic until the very end when the Bush
bashing starts which doesn't favor the democrats as much as it
illustrates the absurdity of the 2000 election. In a no win situation it
always seems prescient in afterthought to impale the winner. At first this stance appears inconsistent until it becomes clear
that this film proposes the Green Party and Ralph Nader as a the
supposed solution to this both sides bad pardigm . The bloom is far off the rose for this argument because it was
Nader who in fact enabled the "victory" of Bush thus underscoring
the danger of naivete and over simplification during the electoral
process. The jingoistic attitude of America continues to this very
writing. Now, much thanks to Nader and political thinking like the left
leaning bias ultimately revealedin this film, we have ironically
arrived at Bush and a war about which the spy novelist / cold
warrior John LeCarre has written; " Don't pretend that this is not
religiously based. Don't pretend this is not a crusade. Don't
pretend this isn't about oil. Don't pretend this isn't about making a
fortune and keeping the American people on their heels in fear"
Aside from that Mrs Lincoln, it was a pretty good play. six