Fahrenheit 9/11

If I've said it once, I've said it exactly 3,254 times, Democracy doesn't work. It's just hanging by a thread, and has been for the past couple hundred years. And will for the next couple hundred. But really, after a few millennia, it'll start to crap out on you, and I'll be there. I probably won't have any of the same parts (except the moustache, I plan on holding onto that baby for as long as possible), but I'll be there.

So, yeah, this is Time Stalin, reporting on Michael Moore's latest documentary, 'Fahrenheit 9/11'. Like all of Moore's work, it's a little... Leftist for my taste, but I'm not here to discuss my own personal views of government or economy. Although, I should mention that every problem brought up in this film could be solved with a nice, socialist dictatorship. But, I digress...

Moore has a point to make in this, and he makes it. A little overblown, quite a bit biased, but hey, what's a little bias in a nice piece of propaganda? It's pretty much required. Moore's good at what he does: George W. Bush managed to use a national tragedy to increase his personal power exponentially, and keep an entire nation in a constant state of panic, and yet by the end of the movie, I hated the guy! Moore managed to turn a brilliant strategist into some sort of villain!

Moore is quite talented. After the revolution, I'm going to have to get him onto my team. Or, you know, killed. Nothing against him personally, but we can't afford to have folks questioning their government, now can we?

The verdict: four out of five. It's good, but it's not going to make me vote for Kerry. Mostly that's because I'm not a citizen and legally dead. Still, it's worth seeing, if just to watch the clever machinations of a political machine.