Inviting You to See Capitalism Today at a Theater Near You!
Friends,
For two months, we've sat and watched the rabid right achieve the unimaginable: Derail universal health care and send the Democrats in Congress running for cover. Many have asked, "How did this happen? How could a small minority of angry people control the public agenda? Where is the majority's response? Why the silence?"
I don't have the answers to all these questions. But I do know this: I've had enough. As far as I'm concerned, Tea Bag Nation ends today -- at noon to be precise. For that's when I set loose, on a thousand screens across this great land, a movie I've made that's so relentless, so dangerous, so damning in its humor, that it will -- I can only hope -- do what no movie has done before: Take them down, take them all down, once and for all.
The days of the majority of Americans being ignored and played for chumps are over as of right now. This weekend, consider your local cinema the REAL town hall meetings! Come and spend two hours with hundreds of other people who are fed up and in need of a bit of inspiration -- and a good hearty laugh at the expense of all the S.O.B.s who've wrecked our economy and laid ruin to our democracy.
I'm personally inviting you to come see what many critics are saying is my best film yet: "Capitalism: A Love Story." You will not be disappointed. I will show you things and tell you things about how the captains of corporate America have stolen our country from us. No one on the nightly news is bringing these truths to you. Beginning at noon today, I pull back the curtain and reveal who's responsible for the calamity we're in. That's right -- I name names and I explain why this economic system we have is nothing more than legalized greed, and Wall Street is nothing more than a crime syndicate in suits. You will be blown away by what you see, but you will not leave the theater in a pit of despair. I'm counting on your response to be one of exhilaration and determination. I've watched this movie in sneak previews with audiences from Pittsburgh to L.A. and I've never seen more hooting and hollering during a documentary in my life. There are actually standing O's during the movie! Weird. Cool. Down in front!
Please see "Capitalism: A Love Story" this weekend. Take a bunch of friends and make it an event. Last weekend in New York and L.A. many shows sold out (making "Capitalism" the biggest per screen average at the box office for 2009), so get your tickets early. And if you get a chance, send me a photo of what opening night looks like in your city and I'll post it on my website.
C'mon, friends -- RISE UP! This is our moment. And it comes with popcorn! Not bad!
Thank you so very much for all your support and encouragement over the years.
Yours,
Michael Moore
MMFlint@aol.com
MichaelMoore.com
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Capitalism & government...
1) Rules of the road...Without government, capitalism leads to piracy, the tyranny of the rich
over everyone-else. Slick salesmen sold my aging, house-ridden mom cell phones she did not need and could not use. Government finally stopped the practice. Yet mom still had 3 phones.
2) Scale...the capitalist entity with 100 cycles of competition will clobber "startup competitors"
from resources from the prior 100 cycles and not the current competition. Successful capitalists erect barriers-to-entry that chokes off the very competition they advocate. Capitalists desire socialism for themselves and capitalism for their employees, suppliers, and customers.
3) The corporate driven government...Corporations that decry "all too powerful" government, are quick to insist government interject itself in other countries, Review the hiostory of our foreign policy.
4) Shared Objectives,,,How could there be a "Manhattan Project" or a Tennessee Valley Authority without the role of govenment? How would a public corporation handle nuclear secrets? Highest bidder?
5) Status quo resources...How would public companies handle startup resources required to enter business? Would companies hire private armies to insure security? Create universities to provide seed-corn ideas? Create power and communications industries to insure utilities?
Government MUST play a role. To quote Greenspan at the end of his journey at the Fed, "I thought capitalists would regulate themselves...I was wrong."
We already hear calls again for unfettered capitalism and pretending away "Too Big to Fail." Will we stop unfettered capitalism?
Michael,
The age-old question for serious people is: "What is to be done?"
Lincoln asked himself this following the 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act which nullified the 1820 Missouri Compromise and permitted the expansion of slavery. Lenin asked himself this when Nicholas II plunged Russia into WW1. DeGaulle asked himself this when the German Blitzkreig breached the Maginot line and the Nazis occupied France overnight.
Reagan’s 1980 election was indeed the modern American equivalent of these portentous events. Ever since we have lived in what is, in effect, an un-American, reverse Robin Hood “Vichy” regime, run or beholden to Wall Street’s pin-striped barbarians and their rightist constituencies (ranging from both the military-industrial and prison-industrial complexes to deluded evangelical voters to far more nasty rightist, racist elements, etc.). Elected Democrats (including presidents), without exception, have at best played the quisling roles of Petain and his functionaries.
What is to be done?
James Buchanan was called a "doughface", a Northerner with Southern sympathies. Obama, similarly, is a man of middle class origins with Wall Street sympathies. It is past time: for him and the Democrats to go the way of the Whigs; for a mass exodus of fed-up rank and file Democrats into a new pro-equality political party with a platform including a Constitutional amendment to mandate reasonable material parity between citizens; and for us to find a new Lincoln. How about you?
Eric C. Jacobson
Public Interest Lawyer
Culver City, California
A toast to the death of Tea Bag Nation! Moore is right. They are a small crowd. Too many people were enablers acting as if deranged, incoherent mobs were a viable political force. That ends!
Capitalism should be seen by everyone, as soon as possible. Rev. Bookburn - Radio Volta
I just saw the movie and loved it. When I got home I googled Pennies for Pilots. I've always been horrified at how poorly pilots are paid. I came upon a pilots' forum, and on the Michael Moore string the conversation is dominated by complaints that Michael Moore is rich like the people he criticizes, or his films are dishonest, or some other blather they hear on corporate cable news every day. It reminded me a line from a song in the musical 1776: "Most men with nothing would rather protect the possibility of becoming rich than face the reality of being poor." People are their own worst enemies.
I went to see it with a "Republican" coworker.
I really enjoyed it. And I'm very sure that Moore will get through to more people.
People not like my coworker, who is largely still stuck on stupid.
It was a truly heroic deed on your part - my heart goes out to you - may your friend lead a long and uncomprehending life.
Great film. I think its Michael Moores best work.
I dont understand why Huff Post isnt hyping this film. THe American general public really needs to hear all this information. WHile all thins information and much worse is available on huff post, the Capitolism is effective entertaining way to spread the word. the more people interested and following this mess the less chance the crooks have in getting away with it all.
The industrial middle class needs to fight back!
A society that prides itself on depending on another nation’s slave labor to provide itself for all sustenance because the profiteers have convinced them that it is easier and for their own good, will only end up being the “Eloi” basking in the sun all day, then after being hypnotized by the siren sound of “cheap” goods will walk ever so “thankfully” into the entrance of the industrial based “Morlocks” cave to be devoured!
The American people have swallowed the poisoned pill of the deceptive “elite” lifestyle concept and will languish to a “DEpendent” state begging for whatever crumbs will be thrown to them by its wealthiest top 1%.
"If free trade has been so good for our standard of living then WHY has this nation's largest employer gone from high union wage benefits paying GM to low nonunion wage benefits skirting Walmart?"-Barbara Toncheff
Our founding fathers were protectionists! All four men on Mt. Rushmore were protectionists! Article 1 section 8 of OUR Constitution provides for Congress to regulate foreign trade only they were easily bought by Wall street.
How can we retain our manufacturing base and status as a world power when we give away the farm with our lousy trade deals? Bottom line, this nation was not founded on the pursuit of happiness to mean the destruction of our sovereignty. Our standard of living is now 11% lower than it was in 1972!
The headline to this blog states that Moore is "inviting" me to see his movie.
Are you sure?
An invitation usually means a "gift" of whatever it is you are inviting me to, as opposed to, say, an offer to see the movie in exchange for my giving up $9.00 at the boxoffice to gain admission.
Somehow I believe it is a case of the latter rather than the former.
I suppose your donating all the money you make on this film to a good cause, you. Why isn't the movie and the popcorn free or at least at cost? You're a Capitalist deep in your heart, profit and non-union workers.
I got to give you credit for being a Great Salesman though.
All things in moderation people. Extreme Socialism is just as socially debilitating as extreme capitalism. There's a happy balance in there somewhere. It's all about exercising personal responsibility. If everyone would do that with an understanding that we're all in the same boat out here we'd eliminate al lot of greed, graft, and crime. I may have to see this movie if I can somehow tolerate Michael Moore's self promotion and propensity to show only one side of the coin.
Mike, we saw your movie last week and loved it! Any doc that starts with Iggy Pop is fine by me. Keep up the great work!!
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My wife and I just saw this great movie. I clapped loudly after it was over, this was a first for me.
I would really like to see it a few more times but we are both unemployed so can't afford it.
Good work Michael.
Thank You !
I can't wait to see this movie!
Sadly, (or ironically?) since I live in Hong Kong, it won't be playing legit theatres here for awhile, if ever. I may have to resort to a p!irate DVD just to see it. There's definitely a comment on 'Capitalism' in that, I just don't know what it is right now!
I saw the first playing of the movie today. It was excellent. I would urge all Americans to see this movie, get pissed, and go out and do something about it.
Mike, what are the odds of getting Sicko to air prime time on network TV sometime in the near future while health care reform is still being negotiated?
Yes!
Good point!!
Why don't we have that playing on primetime? That's where it belongs. I'd donate for airtime for that to play primetime.
Pretty slim, unless the networks offer him a boat load of money...
Guess you forgot that Moore released Sicko online for free before it was shown in theaters. I know because I downloaded and watched it online.
He also spent $2 million making Slacker Uprising out of his own pocket and that film was never shown in theaters at all - again - made available for free online only.
http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Michael-Moore-s-New-Doc-Released-Online-For-Free-10051.html
It aired last week during primetime on Showtime, I do believe.
I saw Sicko 3 times this summer. It was aired. Can't remember what channels though.
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