Death of a Nation (2018 film)

A Dinesh D'Souza creation, which may prejudice a number of people against it.

This is a video that I partially watched on Tubi. You can certainly watch a variety of very useful and educational things on Tubi, and it is free. I like free. The video is a film that received some very, very negative reviews. I can see why when I watched it. Rather than to concur with the reviews, I have to give it a thumbs up.

Frankly, I didn't read any reviews, except for the Wikipedia entry. As for the Wikipedia entry about the film, it is written up as a very negative non-review of the reviews ( if I may turn a phrase). I'd describe it as a "hate-bomb". If you've heard of the term "love-bomb", this is the opposite of that ( I think). The idea is to turn the reader against it without even the benefit of having seen it for yourself. According to the Wikipedia article, it was a failure at the box office, and it was due to the large number of negative reviews.

I've heard of D'Souza, of course. But all of his stuff is generally on a paying basis. I refused to pay for seeing any of his films, so it is not because of any negative reviews. I like free, as I mentioned. I don't have the money to pay for political messaging.

But this is free, so I got a good taste of what he had to say. I have not seen all of it yet, but I'd say that it appears to be fact-based, as opposed to history revisionism that Wikipedia is claiming.

You might want to consider the arguments against Wikipedia They are definitely trying to suppress D'Souza with a lot of hate bombing.

I think you can cross-check some of his assertions by reading the Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, which is hardly a right wing book.

Incidentally, I've been preaching long and hard against this so-called political spectrum business that is being used to deceive the American public. The one idea that D'Souza hammers on is the lie that the poltical right is opposite to the political left. That fascism and communism are opposites. They are close cousins of each other. The political specturm is based upon the lie that the extremes are between the right and left with Fascism and Marxism on either side respectively.

I concur with that thesis. Fascism is nothing more than a virulent brand of socialism. These are not opposites, but bear very close resemblance.

After a bit of a break, I returned to watch almost all of the remaining film. If there's any criticism that I'd offer it is the comparison of Trump with Lincoln. People aren't likely to go along with that one, and it represents a turning of what could be called a documetary type film into something of a docudrama.

I'd say that this might have been a mistake. Perhaps D'Souza has a bit of an emotional attachment combined with a hatred and dislike of the modern left. I cannot blame him for the latter, but the former has yet to be decided.

With that, I may draw this post to a close. I don't think it should be dismissed so easily. That is also a mistake. The modern left didn't bother to restrain themselves with the Hitler comparisons, and still haven't even though it didn't win for them. In short, we shouldn't act like them, lest the same shall happen to us. By "us", I am referring to those who will defend what is good about America.