Did anyone see the movie "Inside Job"

[BigD_95]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzrBurlJUNk


Its a really good movie. But damn we have no chance. I hate to sound negative but were fighting a losing battle. Its sad. You would think the American people would watch that movie and storm the capital. But you dont even hear anyone being outraged? Its such a joke. Where is the media at in all this?

I think all these left leaning sites like moveon.org should get together with some right wing sites and use their money to put a movie like that on Prime time on a major network. Try to reach as many people possible.

I dont know. It just feels so helpless.

[no_hypocrisy]

1. Yes, it is dismal. However, I haven't heard of an economic theory that proves

that this morass can't be corrected, provided the situation is allowed to be corrected.

[Moostache]

2. Divest yourself from caring about the outcome and its not so bad....

sort of like watching a B-grade slasher film really....(America itself, NOT "Inside Job" which is VERY well done.)

"America Falls" by Ed Wood

[LiberalLoner]

3. I've been thinking lately maybe that's the best thing to do. I really

can't seem to make any difference, so why care? Why make myself miserable with worry about what is happening to others or will happen to others in this modern world?

I can do little tiny things. The postal workers picked up my bag of non-perishable food for the food pantry. Little things.

Otherwise I just sit and watch the horror show because I don't have any power over anything.

[ejpoeta]

4. i think the biggest problem is that people feel they can't do anything about it.

that is the biggest problem. they just don't even bother because they feel there is no point. that's what my husband says when i get so upset about this stuff. and it seems so hopeless because the people with the money have the reps in their pockets. their hands are all dirty and they aren't going to implicate themselves or disturb the gravy train. it is not hopeless though. there are more of us than there are of them. if you could get the brainwashed faux viewers to wake up and get the ones who feel it's hopeless to realize it isn't hopeless.... their worst fear is that we organize and work together. that is why all the divisiveness and the poor are lazy and boogeyman stuff. public workers living it up... teachers and their golden parachutes bs. it has a purpose. for as long as we fight each other they win.

[BigD_95]

5. your so right ejpoeta

My stepson watches Fox News at his dad's house and tries talking about what he hears. That he is working so these lazy people can sit at home and get welfare and food stamps. I try to get him to understand but he is too young to listen. People are so brainwashed to fight with each other while the rich are robbing us blind. I will say why do you care about some poor person abusing the system getting hand outs of maybe $800 a month while Wall Street is getting hand outs in the billions.

[riderinthestorm]

7. I felt very powerless at the end of the movie too.

Enraged and powerless. I have no idea how you strike back at this kind of monopoly of greed where the walls protecting them are very, very rooted in our political system and our corporatocracy culture.

Americans have been brainwashed into believing that our capitalist system is so great. It's so distressing.

I almost wished at the end that there was a sort of montage of helpful ideas at the end of what we could do to strike back - kind of like Gore's movie did with Inconvenient Truth.

[socialist_n_TN]

6. I've got it for the weekend..........

I've got some pretty good reviews on it so far. I don't expect it to change my opinions (I already think that the capitalist system is worthless and predatory), but I'm looking forward to some confirmation of my views.

[RadiationTherapy]

8. We need a new constitution to address new forms of power abuse.

Until we make it constitutionally banned to accumulate such an degree of power, not money - power, then we are little better off than the monarchy and aristocracy we faught to separate from 230 years ago.