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Pat Dollard, “Captain Blather On Anti-War Films And The Hollywood Left”

Here’s what liberals don’t seem to get: once upon a time, it was sort of daring to make anti-patriotic statements. Once upon a time, most war movies were pretty one-sided, even jingoistic. So you can legitimately argue that social critics of those eras were “brave” – even when they were misguided.

And they were offering ideas that hadn’t been heard before.

But now? Now all the movies are anti-American. All the celebrities are leftists. So how exactly does one more movie with exactly the same message amount to anything brave or compelling or even interesting?

These days, if you want to be a revolutionary, go make a pro-American film. If you want to brave the anger of “the man,” if you really want to speak “truth to power,” go make a film suggesting the U.S. is a good place. The “man” these days runs the media, much of the government, many of the corporations.

You aren’t ballsy if you make an anti-American film. You’re a conformist wimp. You’re the ultimate square. You’re exactly the dude you were making fun of back in the ’60s. You aren’t the people, you’re the power. Damn the man? Damn you, dude. You’re the problem.

Try some originality, you wimpy hippies. Try something actually revolutionary, like having an original thought. Newsflash: even most liberals are bored by the Micheal Mooreification of America.

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