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Patriocracy

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Former Wyoming Sen. Alan Simpson, Bob Schieffer, Eleanor Clift and others discuss America's political divide and how it has harmed the country.

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Calum Marsh Slant Magazine To presume that even an explicitly neutral political position lacks its own subjective ideological bias is nothing more than a delusion, and not a particularly useful one. Rated: .5/4 Mar 2, 2012 Full Review Neil Genzlinger New York Times An assortment of reasoned voices - Bob Schieffer, Alan Simpson and others - delineate problems that are already well known. Rated: 2/5 Mar 1, 2012 Full Review Benjamin Mercer Village Voice Malone reveals himself to have a stunningly low opinion of his audience's powers of [lie] detection. Feb 28, 2012 Full Review Prairie Miller WBAI Radio Though even-handed about Washington DC dysfunction and corruption by both parties in our essentially financial one party system, the film ponders naive solutions that will likely leave the One Percent of this country's economic dictatorship snickering. Aug 17, 2012 Full Review Mark R. Leeper Mark Leeper's Reviews This film is a diagnosis of the problem without much in the way of a cure, though it does propose some solutions and tries to be optimistic about them. Rated: 6/10 Jul 9, 2012 Full Review Maryann Koopman Kelly Paste Magazine This is a doc one can chew on for days after, recommending to friends, asking people about and wanting to watch again. Rated: 8.2/10 Mar 5, 2012 Full Review Read all reviews

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Audience Member Now MORE THAN 6 YEARS OLD AND MORE PERTINENT THAN EVER. tHIS SHOULD BE REQUIRED VIEWING FOR EVERY aMERICAN. Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 01/28/23 Full Review ryan b I thought it was a helpful reminder (here in 2016) of how much worse things have gotten. What were fairly common facts at the time it was made (2011 - and thus the lower critic reviews) are now largely forgotten. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member I think it should be mandatory viewing for any high school civics class! The unbiased down the middle view point was a much needed surprise as well as outline of ways to fix it. Both sides ruined it and both sides need to come together to fix it! Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/05/23 Full Review Audience Member One of the best illustrations of how and why America became so divided politically in spite of a fairly moderate majority. I'm giving the fifth star, however, to the solutions provided towards the end pertaining to already existing agencies working to make our government about the issues and not the money. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/20/23 Full Review Audience Member What a bunch of CRAP! It is no longer possible to pretend that the war on the middle-class does not exist. "Hard-line liberals", BS! Bernie Sanders is the one and only liberal in Congress. The Simpson deficit commission was a scam to further the movement of wealth to the 1%. It is true that both parties got us into this mess, but that is because both parties are owned by the 1%. Of course the "Internet" has been polluted with disinformation and that most people have no ability to divine fact from fiction. Remember that this failure of our Education System started in the Reagan Administration and continued with Bush's "No Child Left Behind". I am a member of Move-on. It was formed because of the stupid Republican impeachment of Clinton for having sex in the Oval Office. The Republicans applauded David Vitter who has a long record of using prostitutes. Move-on is focused on electing Progressive Candidates. The American Action Network is a front for electing more Republicans to Congress. The Debt Crisis was generated by the Republican party to destroy Social Security and other "safety net" programs. The compromise was a huge loss for the Democratic Party and President Obama. The "both sides" argument no longer works. It is similar to a husband who beats his wife every night saying "its all her fault." John Stewart and Stephen Colbert are making fun of the political process, but 99% of the time it is the Republicans who are the focus of their wit. Mickey Edwards suggestions are nothing new. The question is "How?" No Labels, Joe Manchine and John Huntsman, more status quo. It sounds great when you first read about it, but when you look into it further, there is no "there, there". No one willing to take a stand against the Economic Royalists who are stealing the wealth of our country. None of the personalities portrayed on the screen have made any honest efforts to actually "do" something. What do they stand for? Who knows? They just want us to all "get along" and if your poor and need health care, well ... just die and stay out of my view so I don't have to think about you. The close focused on talking heads claiming that America is "Greatest Country on Earth". That only means we have more bombs than anyone else. Our healthcare sucks, our internet sucks, our transportation system sucks. Tedious Propaganda that offered no solutions and papered over the causes of our country's problems. OMG! I forgot... ruck.us sells wireless. Why is this "documentary" telling us to go to their web site? Oh, I get it, it was because they existed once upon a time for about 10 seconds as a group that "did something". What they did, who knows? Rated 1 out of 5 stars 01/27/23 Full Review Audience Member Long story short, too many people are willing to stand for what they believe in and won't capitulate. Also, people are too stupid to tell the difference between the august, regal media and commentary. This documentary insults intelligence rather than informs. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/29/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis Former Wyoming Sen. Alan Simpson, Bob Schieffer, Eleanor Clift and others discuss America's political divide and how it has harmed the country.
Director
Brian Malone
Producer
Brian Malone, Cindy Malone, Betsy Stahl
Screenwriter
Brian Malone
Distributor
Cinema Libre Studio
Production Co
Fast Forward Films
Genre
Documentary
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Mar 2, 2012, Original
Release Date (Streaming)
Mar 13, 2017
Runtime
1h 28m
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