Take a lefty to the movies

I laid $28 hard earned Yankee dollars of Mrs. Lex’s money last night at the movies. I went to see 2016 with Lex jr and his friend. It is NOT the feel good hit of the summer. To heck with Little Barry’s re-election, how the hell did this guy, who couldn’t get a “secret” security clearance in the military, get elected in the first place?


Shelby Steele answers the question, and the answer is - white guilt. A large percentage of whites were willing to roll the dice on a guy they knew nothing about to prove they were not racists. For his part, Little Barry admits that whites are easily manipulated. Essentially all you need to get over on most of them was smile and polite conversation.

The main point of the film I believe is that it’s not Little Barry’s Marxist tendencies or anti-capitalist views that drive him. It’s his anti-colonialist views that explain everything from the massive debt he’s saddled on us, to military cuts to bowing before kings and emperors no president here-to-fore ever considered giving as much as a nod of the head. That’s weird because while the Dutch colonized Kenya – Little Barry’s homeland - America isn’t typically viewed around the world as a colonizer. In fact it’s quite the opposite. Rather than trying to colonize foreign lands, foreigners try to legally establish colonies of sorts in the USA. Thus all the little Italy’s, Hatties, Germantowns, Chinatowns etc. that spring up in every state.

But hey, don’t let the facts in get in the way of a good story. America needs to be punished because it is successful. It is a macro view of Little Barry economics. The wealth of nations needs to be spread around as well. Besides the only reason America is successful is because of the exploitation of the resources of the world.

The most disturbing part of the film was the part that dealt with what the film’s director Dinesh D’souza calls Little Barry’s “founding fathers.” Little Barry’s founders do not include Washington, Jefferson and the like. His founders are a group of communist, anti-American trash that includes Bill Ayers and the wrong Rev? Jerry Wright.

The hero of the film is Little Barry’s brother George. It’s clear we elected the wrong Obama. George matter of factly lives in a hut in Nairobi. George rather stunningly claims that had Kenya been colonized a bit longer it would be better off. He claims the whites developed Kenya in a way Africans have not. Mainly because, since independence, the focus has been on fighting to gain power rather than developing natural resources. He looked at countries that have gained independence long after Kenya but yet are far more developed. He attributes that to the fact that they were colonized by whites for a longer time.

There were a good many people in the theater for a Mon evening showing. Mostly, except for Lex jr. and friend, old and all white. That’s the problem with the film. It’s preaching to the choir. Everyone needs to take a left leaning friend or buy their politically unaware kids a ticket to this movie.

They will be fine. The film is not an in your face tirade. It is almost too calm and even tempered for my taste. It’s like a prosecutor in a very even tone laying out a slam dunk case against a defendant. It’s methodical. There is no hysteria. The meanest most inflammatory part of the film is when D’souza shows lefty reaction to his book which is the basis for the film.

I came away thinking that it would not be inaccurate to label Little Barry un-American. Not so much because he hates America, although that case can be made too, but simply because his life experiences are not American. And the film makes clear he is a danger to America as it was founded.