Thanks for that. I both like and am horrified by his work. Bowling for Columbine was an incredible eye-opener.
Hi Tûrwethiel :tiphat:
I know excactly how you feel, because I feel the same.
Bowling For Columbine, created a shock in me emotionally the first time, I watched it. Mostly because I have fathered children of my own.
But I do admire him as well to take up the challence as the only one in America to show America to americans and the world. What I don´t appreciate about Michael Moore, and his later almost mocumentaries in stead of documentaries, is that he obviously has become The American Dream a million dollars buisness himself, and he knows it.
The good thing though about this national trip he took to all American states and it´s major cities, has created an enormous new interest among not yet registered voters, so the offices around America where any new american could register have been invated by hundreds of thousands of people up to the ending of the time limit, not a week ago, to register.
Of course in real working democracies - the democratical right and responsability as a citizen in a democratical country to vote - is a birth right, not something you have to apply for at a public office, which incidently require that you´re familiar with and experienced in reading and writing your natural first language.
On this election on November 4 2008, there is an entirely incredible big new group of black female americans not very well educated citizens, who throughout any state in America has never voted before, nor felt the need nor responsability to do so, because they knew up front that it did not really matter, whether it was the Democrats nor the Republicans that would win. So this might just be what the USA needs more now than ever before to actually practice, what the US Constitution preach: Equallity among all free men (and women).
Instead of "the usual suspects" always wearing dark buisness suits, shorter haircuts than marines, and black shoes three numbers to big, and most often with a necktie that simply do not match the colour of the suit and shirt, the necktie that belongs to the past time history from some God forsaken dormatory locally. Just think of it much more women in politics of various colours, representatives for different income and citizen groups, against the usual millionaires, we know so well from the past 60 years, The same millionaires that never understood that a democracy can not exist without social welfare reforms and a national provided and payed for health care program for the ones, who can not - for many different reasons - provide for themselves.
