> Many people are against the universal healthcare idea
> now simply because Moore has made a film about it. A
> ridiculous reason, but many folks are ridiculous, and
> what they believe and why they believe it defies
> understanding. My gf's mom refused to vote for John
> Kerry in 2004 because "A vote for John Kerry is a vote
> for Michael Moore." How do you begin to pierce that
> bubble of incomprehension?
I'm not sure if you can. My gut feeling these days is that it will take some serious hardship to wake up Americans to the facts about how their way of life fucks over the world.
I have my own set of test subjects: my family. But we just don't talk about politics. Tonight I engaged in a heated exchange of words with my sister, who was watching the O'Reilly Factor with my father. O'Reilly was interviewing Jason Whitlock, the Kansas City sports columnist, about Michael Vick, dog-fighting and hip hop.
I flew off the handle, because I couldn't believe that Whitlock would sink so low as to appear on O'Reilly in order to trash hip hop with the bullshit that Vick was doing to dogs. I read something on a blog today about how Whitlock should stop going on white TV shows and spend more time on African-American radio shows, where the people who need to hear his criticism of the problems in hip hop would be listening.
Whitlock, by appearing on O'Reilly, is just confirming the ideas that racist white conservatives have about hip hop.
My sister just dismissed my ranting with the remark that she "doesn't see race." This coming from somebody whose daughter's father is an African-American.
Michael Moore was pretty funny tonight on the Colbert Report. But I have to admit that I'm not all that excited about seeing Sicko. I was disappointed with Moore's last movie and I'm not that happy that Moore decided to ignore those of us without health insurance. The film just doesn't sound radical to me at all.
Chuck