Despotism

Circa 1945, How does your country rate on a democrasy / despotism scale?

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• democrasy
• despotism
• power
• respect
• information
• american
• values

[posha666]

This is a slightly better quality version of this popular film.

[snuffydogood]

got lucky on the print

[posha666]

Great job! I love the little subtitles/commentary.

[snuffydogood]

thank you, glad somebody pays attention.

[Razputin001]

Excellent response. I haven' seen this one before.

I think I'm not paying enough attention. What subtitles?

[snuffydogood]

the bits on voting and camp for political offenders

[DarthDrizzt]

United states of Despotism..... we have work to do.

[tep01]

It is amazing the direction the United States has gone, and people do not care.

[artgoat]

Even more fascinating than the video are the comments from the peanut gallery. Seems that most here would be perfectly happy with despotism, as long as it did not wear the school tie of their enemies. The ignorance of history displayed in those posts just underlines how warped the ideals of those who believe in a fantasy version of the past can become.

[Licmycat]

Yes, our country wants to install censorship by destroying and burning books to use the internet to control people. Communists are deserve the death penalty.

[jedibyron]

@kimberHD45 I noted those same issues as well. Realizing them it's still an informative little movie; but the vast majority would not even notice.

[SRWEST]

@danred806 The phrase "under God" wasn't incorporated into the Pledge of Allegiance June 14, 1954 - this was made in 1945

[MrGottabefree]

Give'm 10 more yrs of this shit and it wont matter anymore! SAD HUH?

[kimberHD45]

@danred806 ...there is an excellent read on the subject, "Original Intent" by David Barton, 2008. It outlines historical evidence about how court rulings protected religious expression until 1948, when in McCollum vs. Board of Education, a court decided voluntary religious education was ruled as "unconstitutional".

[PistolPackingPatriot]

Oh, and I meant to point out the "teacher" @ 7:30, so *eager* to embrace tyranny. So accurate! And not just teachers, but the vast majority of Americans so eager to comply, embrace, and serve their masters, and wield their pseudo-authority over anyone they can. Spot on! People - we must all stand up and say "NO! I will not comply! This is wrong!"

[PistolPackingPatriot]

Well, using the scale in the video, our ranking is at a negative 10. This is why I blame our parents, grandparents, and great-grands for the predicament we now face. They could have, and should have, stopped this. Thanks for posting!

[thirtythree303]

@kimberHD45 well said, beware the liberal. It looks nice, but we are supposed to be a Republic. Most folks don't know the difference. I will admit that I didn't until I looked into the meanings of the words.

[danred806]

I see that someone took God out of the pledge of allegiance that played about 1:20. God was removed from shcools and slowly trying to be forced out of goverenment so how does anyone expect it to work?