"Make Mine Freedom!" 1948 cartoon about saving the American dream!

[TEAPARTYGUY84]

This was great I'm gonna link it to everybody I know!

[willnan2]

Let's pray (while we still can openly) that the internet remains available to all of us.

[maccash1]

Let's face it... All the anger in everyone's comments are coming from a place of envy, greed, and class warfare. If ANY of you were in the upper class, I doubt any of you would be crying about how unfair our system of economics is or wrong this cartoon is. As long as someone makes more, there will always be someone complaining about the unfairness of the system. It will NOT matter that they employ others, the amount of work they do, or whether they have made some amazing innovation that changes

[rich111272]

This cartoon is dead-on about the issues that are really happening today in our country. The slick-talking salesman playing the globalist/government role, the gullible people looking to drink the ISM formula as sheeples, and finally the truth-telling gentlemen who enables them to realize the truth to it all.

It comes down to whether if you are the sheeple who will drink the ISM and allow govt to run your life or if you'll be like the wise, truth-telling man who enlightens them to the truth.

[barsoda]

@janusdoa I think the key is we work together because we can and want to, not because we are forced to by big brother..big diff

[IDoNotBlameYou]

"Young Aunt Minnie" is DAMN HOT!!! "Grandpappy" is, on the other hand, not.



[DRisLegend200919]

America has faltered badly with turning over everything to the richest among us and letting them decide how we live. Tolerance and freedom are in grave danger as hate and intolerance are being disseminated. And our jobs have all been outsoruced to other countries while our government has made it profitable to do so. Until we learn to let everyone have a voice and to listen to each side in a cival manner, we aren't great any more.

[janusdoa]

That part right at the end: working together to produce value? So the pro-capitalism message ends on a note tacitly supporting communism? Shouldn't it be "Competing with one another to produce value?"

[MadeoOnTheRadeo]

The good old days

[R11HKRAC]

is it a coincidence that John Q. Public looks like president Truman?

[ItsMusicifiable]

There's something about this video that people don't seem to be getting: It's propaganda! It doesn't show the negative sides of the free enterprise system like the fact that it promotes greedy and selfish attitudes and that it puts litterally everything for sale, including the government.

[ItsMusicifiable]

@ItsMusicifiable Also the fact that to truly be successful in this system, you must only care about yourself. Copmpanies don't care about people and, believe me, if harming you makes them money, they will do it without hesitation.

You want to know what has ACTUALLY made America the way it is? Watch this: watch?v=-mtXt9yyCLo

[MrHewn]

jobless men keep going

[DRisLegend200919]

this country was founded on all races and creeds

[janusdoa]

@DRisLegend200919 Tell that to the slave-owning founding fathers.

[ArhkXi]

Too bad America (US) is poor now...

~

[dodger920]

America has faltered badly with turning over everything to the richest among us and letting them decide how we live. Tolerance and freedom are in grave danger as hate and intolerance are being disseminated. And our jobs have all been outsoruced to other countries while our government has made it profitable to do so. Until we learn to let everyone have a voice and to listen to each side in a cival manner, we aren't great any more.

[51LANA]

Praise the Lord. May God bless America. ty tereasa,

lvya JonnieMama

[MrPitch100]

I don't care what anyone says or thinks. This cartoon is right on the spot and and reflects perfectly what is going on today in America. These days if you can't even say you're proud to be american and love freedom without being called some kind of extremist. The left calls for equality and more fairness but all it does is criticize and ridicule conservative americans and keeps pushing forward socialism and robbing the people of their basic freedom. Socialism, communism, islam are anti-freedom.

[shatwood]

@MrPitch100

Here's a nail. Feel free to hit it on the head again whenever you like.

[TheOrangeDart]

@Snakebite1138 a marrige is between a MAN and a WOMAN and if you get thumbs down it's probably because you are, in fact, saying something completely stupid.

[janusdoa]

@TheOrangeDart Not for long! :)

[Potts132]

I love ISM :)

[leaddrop]

Obama is a traitor, And he shall be given a traitor's farewell. Soon the time will come...

[Mr1mcg]

Exactly why I cling to my guns. The right to keep and bear arms to insure a free state. Now, it seems that I, and miilions of other Americans, will probably have to use our guns very soon. No problem, it's the American way. Did ya hear that Mr. Obama??? NO problem with that.

[wrmach]

Make Mine Freedom...thats Right !!

WRMACH PRO.

[shatwood]

Needs to be updated. Nearly every person in this cartoon is white. And this is coming from a guy who can't stand people who bitch about a lack of racial diversity

[tools131]

@shatwood

excuse me but the schoolchildren in the classroom had the proper percentage of other races depicted for 1948.

[shatwood]

@tools131

excuseme, for having to REexplain what I typed because YOU didnt read what I wrote. I said it needs to be UPDATED. No shit the racial diversity matches how the times were in 1948. We're not in 1948 anymore. It would be nice if a newer version came out that represented the racial makeup of 2010. Next time, do your damn job and read what I typed before you comment.

[shatwood]

@tools131

basically an updated version of the same video, set in 2010.

[jejustissIII]

Outstanding. Forgotten about this. I think I watched this sometime in the 60's.

[Wanderlust57]

I am a conservative and I agree with this film. However, I do wish we could but an end to factory farming. The abuse of innocent animals in this industry is so horrible that it is shocking that it is allowed to go on in a civilized society. something needs to be done about it.

[jumpmonkey03]

The Sony took Joe's idea, sued him and his relatives, and now Joe's not allowed to invent anything for himself without showing it to Sony first.

[MustangJeeps]

This cartoon hits the nail on the head, who does Dr. Uptopia remind you of?...... OBAMA

[IlyaAndAGuitar]

@MustangJeeps

Obama? I'm guessing you're talking about the health care plan. Signing away your right to the government, am I right? Frightened that the USA is going to turn communist? That you'll be squeezed by the giant hand in the cartoon?

Look up north at Canada. We've lost absolutely no freedom. Our health care plan is successful, and we're still democrats.

[MustangJeeps]

@IlyaAndAGuitar

Hi how are you doing? Well, right now our health care system is the best in the world, and most technologically advanced. We don't cover everybody, no, but if somebody needs live saving treatment we can provide it, no matter the age. Our health care is perfect, our insurance, yes, it needs help. But Obamas plan is not supported by the American people, as you can see with republicans taking high majority seats. It needs help, but not total abolishment. :)

[pestcontrol3]

@IlyaAndAGuitar The Canadians who need care disallowed under their plan come here; there are professional brokers who arrange their travel and placement . Furthermore, we had  many community health clinics ( i worked in one of them, I am a social worker) until gov't regs and litigation costs destroyed them. In 26 years of social work practice, I have never seen anyone go without healthcare, not one person, This plan increases the cost and bureaucracy. Not good.

[shatwood]

I was just going to type that

[jslash79]

this cartoon is wrong on so many levels. so many forms of control.

[DRisLegend200919]

@jslash79 ''sad that people will believe a stupid cartoon from the 40s on youtube

[Eaglesfaninca]

WOW so this was a cartoon?

Talk about propaganda. No wonder seniors today are so fucked up...

[detroitpaleface]

continued-

THIS ALSO MEANT THE FREEDOM TO MARKET FINANCIAL PRODUCTS MISREPRESENTED AS "A" GRADE INVESTMENTS. (BUNDLED MORTGAGES, ETC.)

GREED HAS RULED THE AMERICAN SCENE FOR DECADES! THAT'S FREEDOM!

And neither the repubs or dems can do anything about the consequences.

The dollar will fail.

[detroitpaleface]

Freedom! Yes!

Of course, in recent decades, this meant the freedom to outsource labor to increase corporate profit in the manufacturing sector.

The point of interest and relevance of this production is stated at the end--

OUR PROSPERITY HAS DEPENDED ON OUR ABILITY TO PRODUCE!

We don't do that anymore; we are a service economy.

Which makes us now

SERVANTS

to the rest of the world, and

CONSUMERS OF THE WORLD'S GOODS.

[Goklayeh]

This cartoon should have been shown in our schools over the last 20 years.....Oh that's right they have been busy handing out condems.........It is amazing how far we have fallen in such a short period of time.

[wheetypeedy]

LOL Dr Utopia must be obama!! lol

[DavyCrockett2]

Stupid liberals

[joanchips]

Excellent Cartoon! We better think about giving our rights away! Unfortunately our President has no quams about it!

[Eaglesfaninca]

"Our rights"

I guess you were against prop 8?

[raifanatic]

Wait a second, this video's about the freedom of Americans' daily life and labor!! How did the comments become strictly homosexual rights?

[MoparBrion]

"Mind if I read it first?" Why? Congress doesn't! How fitting!

[wildpeachatl737]

While watching this fasconating piec eof film, I couldn't help but be struck by the correlations to such policies touted by the GOP such as the anti-labor movement, farm subsidies and the loss of rights of individuals under the Patriot Act.

With the current health care reform debate using such tactics mentioned, for example: class warfare, race hatred, and religious intolerance - it forces one to take pause and reflect as to what direction we were heading, as we seems to have been unaware.

[Snakebite1138]

lol, i love that my comments all have thumbs down ratings. some people cant stand the truth im afriad(and it is the truth).

look it up, hundreds of scientist have obsevered homosexuality in nature and its been well photographed filmed and documented, homosexuality is natural, get used to it. oh, and to sundero, slavery was legal in some states in the civil war and illegal in others but that still didnt mean that blacks got equal rights, not even close. geez conservitives are so ignorant lol :)

[BrainDeadLuffy]

Dr. Utopia remind you of someone? *coughobamacough*

[raifanatic]

Selling bottles of fake ailments? More like Adolfo Pirelli.

[Snakebite1138]

I got a better quote for you,

"all men are created equal"

That means black,white,tall,short,fat,ski­nny,straight, OR GAY! its not the governments job to tell its own citizens whether there moral enough to get equal rights.

And P.S. gay people pay for your lifestyle, why not return the favor?

[ThatGuy623]

Actually I've read somewhere in a science magazine that people are born gay. It says that there is a small percentage that in the womb, a child (presumably male) is exposed to extra hormones like estrogen which alter the development of the babies mental growth, possibly making them homosexual when they grow up. 'Corse im just spitballing; my memory on this isn't clear.

America was created for social and economic freedom, democracy and capitalism. Anything else would betray our fathers and sons.

[Snakebite1138]

No one knows for sure what determines a persons sexuality, but in animals that mate for extended periods of time or life they usually have some small percent that perfers or even accepts nothing but mating with the same sex.

[sundero]

What rights don't gay people have? They can marry someone of the opposite sex if they want to, just like anyone else.

[Snakebite1138]

Have you been living under a rock for the past decade or so? as of today only 6 states grant same sex partners true marriage, and a few others granting domestic partnership which only gives a portion of the benefits that non-gay couples have. open your eyes and maybe you'll see that discrimination is alive in well in "the land of the free" (rhyme not intended)

[MoparBrion]

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.

Thomas Jefferson

[MoparBrion]

I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.

Thomas Jefferson

[MoparBrion]

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

Thomas Jefferson

[MoparBrion]

A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned - this is the sum of good government.

Thomas Jefferson

[Diwiyana80]

Yes, if the guy with all the goodies would only share and share alike with the guy on the bottom, we wouldn't need big government, would we? But since when does the guy on top share willingly? Hence, government. The bigger the guy on top, the bigger the gov't needs to be. Or the little gits squished. That ain't "ism." That's life.

[Snakebite1138]

Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor. -Thomas Jefferson

[penim8r]

You are all missing the point... divide and conquer any one?

[MoparBrion]

Equality is for different races, creeds, and religions; not sexual preferences. There is a difference between tolerance and equality. As far as my believing lies from the media.... you must be joking. You, my friend, have been brainwashed by pop culture into believing that homosexuality is a product of genetics. I believe little of what comes from the media. My beliefs are based not only in Absolute Truth and the Word of God, but common sense: Homosexuality is not a natural behavior.

[Snakebite1138]

First of all I am brainwashed by nothing. "pop Culture" as you put it depicts(for the most part) homosexuality as natural because it is. look at the evidence! its been observed in the wild in more than 1500 species! Primates, Canines, even Worms! look at the numerous studies that show that most humans are only 60 to 70% straight and have natural Homosexual thoughts on occasion. my advice to you is to get your nose out of the bible and take a look at the real world.

[jmt1969]

Hmmm. I think our commenter on "irony" is selectively deaf.

The political left has made an art form of ostracizing and excluding and ridiculing any who do not adhere to their tenets. If you think marriage has a specific meaning, then you are a bigot. If you think the jury is still out on manmade global warming, you're a crackpot. The list is unending.

Listen again to the message in the video. It is about a cultural unity that the left has fought to weaken and undermine for decades.

[GL2330]

May I add one?

If you didn't vote for Obama, or if you're a gun owner... you're a racist, or redneck.

[poppaculture]

I voted for Obama and own a gun!  It's not buried in my backyard either!

[Snakebite1138]

putting aside the numerous holes in your logic for now, ive decided to inform you of somthing. do you realise that the word "marriage" means somthing to the state too. they give many legal and finacial benifits to married couples. not allowing gay men and women to marry is discrimination because it keeps them from being treated the same as non gay men and women. its wrong, nuff said.

[MoparBrion]

Snakebite, gay men and women couples are not the same as non-gay couples. Homosexuality is a life choice, and the homosexual act has no procreative purpose in nature. I believe in tolerance, and I feel that you are free to do what you want. But there is a difference between asking me to be tolerant of your lifestyle and asking me to accept it , approve it, or especially subsidize it with my tax dollars to pay "partners" government benefits.

[Snakebite1138]

Excuse me but its not a choice. dont buy into the lies being fed to you by the media. Im not gay so when i say its natural im only trusting actual gay people who have told me so, not the pundants and Politicians who are out of touch with reality. and P.s. no ones asking you to like it, but if you truly belive in equality than you should support it or get out of the land of the free.

[Snakebite1138]

Reminds me of what Big Business is doing as we speak. When Tycoons Hold the government for ransom because there own mistakes, thats the worst kind of capitalism

[zakattak80]

now i agree that big businesses is bad right now, but seriously are you saying government is the victim. when there the ones taking control of big business as we speak

[Snakebite1138]

no, am saying that when we bailout buisnesses with billions, and they come asking for more and threaten world economic collapse if they fail, what are you supposed to do? its holding the government for ransom in my opinion. if Obama didnt bailout these buisnesses and they failed, then he would be thrown under the bus.

[zakattak80]

i see where you going, but the president shouldn't be involve with business at all. so theres the real problem right there. i mean these bailouts and government interventions create economical collapses. we are very likely to be just like Zimbabwe or the weimar republic if we continue what we are doing now.

[cephal0p0d]

It also shows us at the end how those preaching disunity (secession!) by using wedge politics to pit one American against the other (those darn librulz/gays/muslims!) seeks to rob us of our freedom.

The only disunity talk I hear, the indisputable wellspring of wedge politics, is from the people who self identify as being on the political 'right' of the left/right puppet show, and quite a bit of it.

Oh the colossal irony.

[shillcw]

They should show this every saturday morning!! Thanks for sharing this video.

[ru2l8t]

Oh how history has repeated itself.....

[skjoldbaerar]

Better DEAD than RED!!!

[ceitiosaurus]

wow, an american with a british accent