Not true. When Moore asks the Canadian man who was injured playing golf (!) why other Canadians would pay for his medical treatment, the man says "because I would do the same for them." Isnt that socialism, as felt by an individual, in a nutshell? When Moore goes to Cuba, what is the point except to underscore the naturalness, workability and simplicity of a socialist way of life?
Throughout the film, Moore pokes fun (with false naivete)at America fears of socialism; and when he seems to set up Hillary as an early martyr of the evil medical establishment, then shows her, as Senator, raking in the cash from them, he gets to the heart of our corrupt system. He doesn't have to mention capitalism here; he's showing how it works.
Considering how conservative most of the American audience is, I think Moore made the right choice in not making this a didactic teaching film, but a dramatic one, letting viewers draw their own conclusions.
BobW
--- Chuck <chuck at mutualaid.org> wrote:
> B. wrote:
>
> > 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
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