Liberalism’s Favorite Movie

[Flanders]

The movie It’s a Wonderful Life is a piece of Socialist collectivist crap. The rich guy, Mr. Potter, is portrayed as a meanspirited cheapskate while the hero, George the Banker, is beloved by one and all —— loved by an angel no less.

Incidentally, I’d like to meet a banker who is loved by angels!

The primary liberal message was that George’s suicide would be a tragedy. (A strange message coming from the people who later gave the world a Culture of Death.)

The subliminal message was that Mr. Potter’s demise would do the world a service. That movie is so revered by touchy-feely sob sisters none dared criticize it —— until now —— at least in part:

This “fringe banking” system, and the people who use it, are the subjects of Mehrsa Baradaran’s How the Other Half Banks.

Let’s be clear at the outset: this is not a judicious or balanced analysis of that system and population. It is a partisan work suffused with moral outrage. Baradaran, a law professor at the University of Georgia, at times sounds like a certain Harvard Law professor who recently traded Cambridge for the Senate.

This Law Professor Wants to Turn the Post Office into a Giant Bank
BY: Ted Lawrence
November 21, 2015 5:00 am

This Law Professor Wants to Turn the Post Office into a Giant Bank​

No matter how Mehrsa Baradaran slices it, go to the movie to get the original collectivist crapola.

 

[mdk]

I don't understand the need for some people to inject blind partisan bullshit into every aspect of their lives. It’s a Wonderful Life is a classic and brilliant movie.

 

[Auld Phart]

Break out laughing every time I watch Jimmy and Donna dance backwards into the pool Alfalfa opened.

 

[ClosedCaption]

From the "Everything is liberal" file comes this new hilarious bullshit.

 

[mdk]

Break out laughing every time I watch Jimmy and Donna dance backwards into the pool Alfalfa opened.

Classic! lol

 

[Arianrhod]

"Liberalism" is a person now?

 

[mdk]

Shitting on this movie is just another front opening in The War on Christmas.

 

[Uncensored2008]

"Liberalism" is a person now?

Nah, it's a mental disorder - as it always has been.

Standard Disclaimer: Leftism that is - none of the democrats are actually liberal in the actual meaning of the word.

 

[Flanders]

I don't understand the need for some people to inject blind partisan bullshit into every aspect of their lives. It’s a Wonderful Life is a classic and brilliant movie.

To mdk: Liberals selling it as “. . . a classic and brilliant movie.” has been partisan bullshit since the day it was released.

Break out laughing every time I watch Jimmy and Donna dance backwards into the pool Alfalfa opened.

To WillHaftawaite: I always wondered what Stewart, a conservative, thought about the politics in that movie? As far as I know, he never said:

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Shitting on this movie is just another front opening in The War on Christmas.

To mdk: No it isn’t. It is about assaulting a belief system liberals swear by. Regardless of the topic, they always wrap themselves in touchy-feely misdirection whenever their horse manure is challenged. I put the knock on It’s A Wonderful Life two or three times over the years. In every instance, your kind responded by claiming moral superiority by wrapping themselves in Christmas without saying a word in defense of Socialist economics.

And in case it went over your head, my review was triggered by an article about banking —— not Christmas

 

[2aguy]

The movie It’s a Wonderful Life is a piece of Socialist collectivist crap. The rich guy, Mr. Potter, is portrayed as a meanspirited cheapskate while the hero, George the Banker, is beloved by one and all —— loved by an angel no less.

Incidentally, I’d like to meet a banker who is loved by angels!

The primary liberal message was that George’s suicide would be a tragedy. (A strange message coming from the people who later gave the world a Culture of Death.)

The subliminal message was that Mr. Potter’s demise would do the world a service. That movie is so revered by touchy-feely sob sisters none dared criticize it —— until now —— at least in part:

This “fringe banking” system, and the people who use it, are the subjects of Mehrsa Baradaran’s How the Other Half Banks.

Let’s be clear at the outset: this is not a judicious or balanced analysis of that system and population. It is a partisan work suffused with moral outrage. Baradaran, a law professor at the University of Georgia, at times sounds like a certain Harvard Law professor who recently traded Cambridge for the Senate.

This Law Professor Wants to Turn the Post Office into a Giant Bank
BY: Ted Lawrence
November 21, 2015 5:00 am

This Law Professor Wants to Turn the Post Office into a Giant Bank​

No matter how Mehrsa Baradaran slices it, go to the movie to get the original collectivist crapola.

I thought Shindler's List was their favorite movie...they love government control...and disarmed people...

 

[Interpol]

Liberalism's favorite movie is "It's a Wonderful Life"???? Tell that to my family, because over the holidays this year we talked about favorite Christmas movies and two big extended Republican families in the family swear by that movie while two of the more moderate-to-liberal families had biases for Elf and A Christmas Story.

I can't say that politics had anything to do with any of their choices.

 

[Flanders]

I thought Shindler's List was their favorite movie...they love government control...and disarmed people...

To 2aguy: Good point.

I can't say that politics had anything to do with any of their choices.

To Interpol: I admit that most movie fans do not analyze a screen play as do I; nevertheless, Clarence the Angel overpowers the Socialist message, but the collectivism is all there.

Incidentally, in the past I connected my opposites to It’s A Wonderful Life to point out their collectivist leanings. They all said they never saw the movie. I always thought the denial was humorous. So who the hell is watching it during the Christmas season when it is run on television? I suspect that parents are convinced it is a family movie; so they tell their children it’s a wonderful story. In that way Socialist economics is handed down from generation to generation.

Put it this way, imagine a movie selling non-existent International law in a favorable light generation after generation. It is frightening to think that someday propagandists will weave global government into a movie plot that becomes a “classic.”

 

[Skull Pilot]

The movie was alright

Bad Santa was better

 

[Tommy Tainant]

Surely Potter was the banker and not Srewart ? His plan was to control all economic activity in the town. He hated Stewart because he couldnt control him.
What a strange mind set that doesnt "get" the message.

 

[Flanders]

Surely Potter was the banker and not Srewart ?

To Tommy Tainant: Mr. Potter and George Bailey were both bankers.

Bailey ran a Building and Loan Association which is another name for Savings and Loans —— not a savings bank. The screenplay clearly identifies it as a bank founded on Socialism’s political orientation. This scene is a little taste of Hollywood’s liberal crapola:

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His plan was to control all economic activity in the town. He hated Stewart because he couldnt control him.

To Tommy Tainant: You are repeating a Leftist talking point that has been around since the late 18th century. It always portrayed wealthy individuals as robber barons —— the ultimate villains —— while all the good people were like George Bailey.

What a strange mind set that doesnt "get" the message.

To Tommy Tainant: I get the Socialist message as clear as a bell. What a strange mindset that you do not see Socialism’s message laid on with a trowel.

 

[Tommy Tainant]

My understanding is that Buildings and Loans were similar to our Building Societies, member owned and run for a defined purpose.
My mortgage is through a building society and the way they conduct business is a million miles away from the way that Potter does.
When people come together to improve their lot then that should be celebrated, and I believe the film does so.And rightly so.

I still cant see how this is a "bad thing". It seems very "American", self help,thrift,progress and all that.

Wanting to own your own home is hardly communism is it ?

 

[Flanders]

I still cant see how this is a "bad thing". It seems very "American", self help,thrift,progress and all that.

To Tommy Tainant: Collectivism is not self-help in a welfare state unless helping yourself to tax dollars counts as thrift and progress.

Wanting to own your own home is hardly communism is it ?

To Tommy Tainant: It sure as hell is Communism when everybody else is forced to pay for it. It started decades ago with public housing that turned into crime-ridden slums. The original Socialist scheme evolved into guarantying millions of mortgages given to people who could not pay the mortgages let alone maintain a home.

Millions of new homeowners were supposed to pay property taxes to state and local governments in addition to putting upward pressure on the residential real estate market. What the country got was another failed collectivist scheme when existing homes lost equity, and damn few unqualified buyers paid property taxes with money they earned in the private sector. They got the houses but not the jobs to pay for them.

None of those disasters would have taken place had Socialists kept their hands out of the so-called affordable housing business. More to the point, the government has no constitutional authority to provide housing of any kind.

Incidentally, every illegal alien, and now United Nations refugees, get “free housing” paid for by a welfare state program of one kind or another; i.e. American taxpayers.

Numerous churches also get tens of millions every year to help immigrants “assimilate.” Somehow, assimilation with tax dollars is supposed work better than America’s melting pot that magically built much of this country.

Not only are productive Americans paying to support strangers, they are enriching charity hustlers who administer government programs.

Finally, since this thread started about a movie, I suggest you watch the last 20 or so minutes of Major Barbara to get a good dose of G.B. Shaw’s collectivist utopia. George Bailey was a flaming capitalist compared to the horseshit in this one:

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[Tommy Tainant]

I cant really comment on the American housing experience.
However in the UK it took government action by the labour party to provide housing fit to live in.They built quality council houses and rented them out to people who had been trapped in low quality rented slums owned by slum landlords.
It was a good deal for the tenant who finally had a decent place to live. It was a good deal for the state because they owned an appreciating asset. The nations health improved because people were living in healthier environments, another benefit.
The only party who lost out were the scum landlords who had screwed the public for centuries.

My family moved from a damp and dingy shit hole to a spacious council house and their lives were transformed.

It must be different in the US but in the UK the "affordable housing business" was nothing more than a conspiracy against the people.

Edit - needless to say the ideological zealots in this government want to abolish all of this.
Ministers want to get rid of social housing, former civil service chief to say
Most of them are private landlords of course.

 

[Flanders]

I cant really comment on the American housing experience.

To Tommy Tainant: Since you are a Brit living in the birthplace of contemporary Socialism/Communism, I thought you might enjoy hearing a little bit about why hatred of coerced collectivism is part of America's genetic code.

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[Tommy Tainant]

I cant really comment on the American housing experience.

To Tommy Tainant: Since you are a Brit living in the birthplace of contemporary Socialism/Communism, I thought you might enjoy hearing a little bit about why hatred of coerced collectivism is part of America's genetic code.

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Hmmmm, thats 10 minutes I will never get back. So they broke a contract and stole land off the people who saved them. Not something to shout about.