
by Steve Bhaerman
How unreal are we going to let reality get before we get real? --
Swami Beyondananda The other night, I watched the most heartening disheartening movie I’ve seen in a long time. Huh?? Let me explain. The movie was called From Freedom to Fascism, and while the content was disheartening, the context was heartening indeed.
At a time when America has surely been divided and just about conquered, segregated into two rival cultural / political tribes that are discouraged from having civil discourse, here finally is an attempt to create a unifying context. From Freedom to Fascism is the work of Libertarian activist and film producer Aaron Russo (The Rose, Trading Places), and it takes on the illegality of the Internal Revenue Service and the private ownership of the Federal Reserve Bank -- pet libertarian issues generally associated with the right wing. The movie also criticizes the war in Iraq, the Patriot Act, and other recent attempts to turn due process into “doo-doo process.” The result is a film that shows how both political parties operate to the detriment of the vast majority of Americans. Could it be that we the people finally have a unifying tool to help grow the “up-wising?”
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