Death of a Nation

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Stewball
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Death of a Nation

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(Just postin' this for the record.)

There's no disputing the facts and quotes that are presented in most of the film. In fact, he could have made a lot more out of the "Birth of a Nation"--"Death of a Nation" connection. Yes, Woodrow Wilson promoted it, but it was also used as KKK recruiting propaganda up into the '60s. But the mainstream media critics once again reveal the hard-core, lockstep bias in their pro-fascism reviews--yes there's no disputing that fascism is indeed a form of socialism...college professor's lame objections notwithstanding.
I'm all for freedom of religion, but the religious demagoguery at the end didn't promote his otherwise well presented case.

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Re: Death of a Nation

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I find it hilarious that D'Souza would make a documentary aggrandizing Trump after he pardoned him from his conviction for making illegal campaign contributions in 2012. Really makes ya think! :)

In any case, I can't take D'Souza's claims seriously. The entire purpose of this documentary is to lionize Trump and to demonize the Democrats to which he goes to ridiculous lengths to try and accomplish. He makes a lot of claims completely out of his ass - what proof does he have that Hitler was influenced by Jacksonian Democrats? Or that the Nazi's intention was the eradication of Christianity? Or that Bernie Sanders supports state control of media?

D'souza's arguments don't stem from any sort of academic research, it's based on baseless assumptions he has on left-wing politics. I'm not a fan of the Democrats or the SJW's, but I'd never go to the lengths D'Souza does to try and paint them as cartoonishly evil as possible, which is what his intention was with this documentary. As Owen Gleiberman states in his Variety review: "If your agenda is to stoke resentment and create cartoon enemies, then you don’t need to be accurate."

Not to mention the general cinematic quality of the documentary is ass. The whole thing feels like it was slapped together in under two weeks (it probably was) with incredibly haphazard editing that makes it look like D'souza isn't actually having a conversation with anyone he interviews.

Frankly, I have little respect for D'Souza as an intellectual. He makes up lies constantly to push his agenda and does so with such pretentious pompousness that I can't take him seriously. His knowledge of history is absolutely laughable, considering he's argued that American slavery was "not a racist institution" or how he frames the Civil War as a conflict between "Democrats and Republicans" rather than "North and South."
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