Michael Moore: Jesus Wouldn't Play the Stock Market

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Pinko alert. Worse: Religious pinko alert. This is one very clever demagogue.

Moore's recently released movie Capitalism: A Love Story is nothing but socialist propaganda for the lowest common denominator. It over-simplifies the issues and is of dubious documentation. And people pay to see this crap. . .

I would spend time illustrating how Moore selectively frames his 'facts' out of context for effect and in insufficient detail. But a decent deconstruction has already been done by Vitaliy Katsenelson over at ContrarianEdge. Here's a sample:

Moore spends the bulk of the film going through our country’s [USA] trash and presenting it as the main course. . . Really, if you want to make a successful propaganda movie, you must evoke emotion and rightly or wrongly direct it at your subject of hate – in Moore’s case, capitalism. . .

. . . Ayn Rand said it well in Atlas Shrugged: “But you say that money is made by the strong at the expense of the weak? What strength do you mean? It is not the strength of guns or muscles. Wealth is the product of man’s capacity to think. Then is money made by the man who invents a motor at the expense of those who did not invent it? Is money made by the intelligent at the expense of the fools? By the able at the expense of the incompetent? By the ambitious at the expense of the lazy?”. . .

. . . He offers no alternative to our “broken” capitalism system other than let’s have “democracy.” This is laughable, as democracy is not a market system, it is a political system. What he wants is a command-based economy – the Soviet Russia that failed so miserably. He wants Mr. Mouch from Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged, a mediocre bureaucrat who failed at everything in his life, to be put in charge of Mr. Moore’s version of a “democratic” economy (still not sure what that means). Mr. Mouch decided how much everyone produced, at what prices goods were sold, and what “fair” wages everyone got paid. In the end, despite sacrifice after sacrifice, Mr. Mouch’s economy collapses. Mr. Mouch’s visible “fair” hand fails to accomplish what the invisible “impartial” hand of the free market accomplishes so effortlessly.

Katsenelson knows about socialism first hand. He grew up in the USSR.