Is Michael Moore a libertarian? Watch this!
Watch the video about his new movie. He talks like a libertarian/Constitutionalist. The film will help us, it seems.
Does Michael Moore Really Think Capitalism Is Evil?
Sep 23, 2009 08:31am EDT
Aaron Task
Michael Moore is no stranger to controversy, having taken on a sitting President, America's gun culture, and health care in prior films.
Moore's latest film, "Capitalism: A Love Story," takes dead aim at Wall Street and the corrupting influence money is having on American democracy -- and that's a bipartisan critique.
I caught up with Moore at the New York premiere of the film, and asked whether he really believes "capitalism is evil," as the film declares.
We also talked about the current consensus that the recession is over and the crisis has ended, which Moore calls an "illusion," and what Washington D.C. can and should do to revive the economy.
Moore is joined in the accompanying clip by Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-Ohio), who is also featured in the film.
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LOL
that's like asking if Karl Marx was an austrian economist.
that was a good one NEO.. A
that was a good one NEO..
A prudent man foresees the difficulties ahead and prepares for them; the simpleton goes blindly on and suffers the consequences. Proverbs 22:3
A prudent man foresees the difficulties ahead and prepares for them; the simpleton goes blindly on and suffers the consequences. Proverbs 22:3
Matthew 10:34 Think not that I am come to
send peace on earth: I came not to send peace,
but a sword.
Moore painted the picture
Moore painted the picture pretty well in that clip, though. The problem with Moore is that he doesn't use those ideas to find a group or an individual who believes in the same things; instead he just backs the Democrat vs the Republican and turns a blind eye which makes him apart of the biggest problem in America.
I think everyone that follows Dr. Paul believes in exactly what Moore just said. We want our old Capitalism back but the difference is we found a man and a group that will help us get it!
Left or right he made some good points
He made some good points in sicko as well. But if you think that we have better health care here than in most other countries you are wrong.
It is true that occasionally some Canadians come here for certain thing that are faster to get here. But many Americans go there as well for the free health care they get there.
But one point is that if we don't get a single payer health care plan the big Pharma and the health insurance industry will keep robbing us.
How would you like to save 850 Billion Dollars by getting single payer plan under medicare. Eliminate the obscene profits to the health care industry and Big pharma. 350 Billion would cover us all saving 500 Billion.
NO NEW TAXES BUT A SAVINGS OF 500 BILLION.
That is Dennis Kucinich plan and it is a good one as opposed to giving hundreds of Billions to the Big Corporations.
If we had free enterprise no problem but Washington is handing us over to the corporations like sheep to the slaughter.
If you want big Pharma to lose their grip on Washington here is a good start.
And yes I am a true conservative. How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time.
Wouldnt work and Kucinich is
Wouldnt work and Kucinich is 80% moron. If you were a true conservative you would know a progressive when you see one.
actually..
michael moore supported ralph nader during the '04 election until after the primaries and then supported kerry for the sole reason of opposing bush. I loved his films "The Big One" and "Sicko". I didn't like "Bowling for Columbine" at all. Michael Moore is about as much to the left of center as I am to the right of center... just a little bit. Just depends on the issue. His main opposition is against corporate america, which I agree with. But everyone, including us, has this "with us or against us" mentality and that is why he's classified far left. we just don't do it to such a degree as others
Definitely an Opportunist...
undercover liberal. Whom they invest money in to make his movies, that in turn makes them more money. IF he had any huevos, he would seek to expose much earlier and then risk getting jailed for it, but for some reason he always looks comfy, as you can tell by his appearance. He doesn't look like he's trying to stay one step ahead, instead he's ten steps behind, right behind whatever the flavor of the month is. I boycott all his movies. I'd rather watch other unknown movies, where the writer actually cares about Liberty.
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The problem with Moore is
The problem with Moore is the same as the problem with Beck. Even when they say good things, they are so polarizing that they alienate 50% of the population. Fascist corporatist system? Only Liberals like Michael Moore believe that, dontcha know. Printing money is bad? Wingnuts like Beck believe that !!!
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It is the same for all of them.
What you said also goes for all of the rest of them. What they say sounds good at the time, like this piece does. When looking at the big picture, their position in inconsistent with the rest of what they believe/do.
Opposing fascism does not make you a Libertarian,
if you suggest another form of tyranny, socialism/communism, as a substitute political/economic system.
Michael Moore is a whack job who would not understand freedom, even if he were locked in a room with Ron Paul for five years.
"The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence." Thomas H. Huxley
Henry: He follows the way the political wind is blowing and...
where the money is found. He jumps of mainstream issues like GM, Columbine, Health care, and now Wall Street. He is an opportunist.
Afraid you are right about the locked room with RP.
Another point of view...
I think that the message that Michael Moore is trying to send is his pointing out of how much corruption is in our current government. He just doesnt realize how bad it really is because if he did he would be making films about Obama and the administration.
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liberal nutcase
I just saw him on Fox, he said we need to run the country as a Democracy. he's an idiot.
Moore
He is a commie
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A whore, he is.
WAHOR!!
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WAHOR!!
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No
Controlled Opposition, he knows how to speak the language and cash in on it and steer it. Check out his agent's brothers. Truth is just bait to them, they use it like the carrot on the stick.
mwiegand: You nailed it.
What you said also goes for all of the rest of them. What they say sounds good at the time, like this piece does. When looking at the big picture, their position in inconsistent with the rest of what they believe/do.
No way
Judging by his last film on healthcare, I'd suggest that there is no way he could be a Libertarian. No Libertarian could possibly believe that they have a right to another person's labor for their own benefit, as he seems to have supported in that film.
Tu ne cede malis, sed contra audentior ito.
I thought the Sicko
was more about why we can't get cheaper drugs from Canada, why we pay more than Cubans for healthcare but get less and why the drug companies are making money by keeping us sick. Since the last one is an illegal attack against personal property, I would argue MM is libertarian of the left leaning type.
Moore is definitely a Libertarian Socialist
of the Noam Chomsky variety. I know "Libertarian Socialist" sounds like an oxymoron, but we must remember that we share a lot in common with these folks. Extreme distrust of large power structures, for one, including the state.
They tend to believe a bit more in the benefits of collectivism, but I'm not really opposed to that, because they believe it should be done on a voluntary basis for the most part.
Traditional libertarians are rugged individualists, while libertarian socialists are voluntary collectivists.
If I'm not mistaken
I think Chomsky called Moore a Conservative!
left libertarian
of the Noam Chomsky ilk.
Michael Moore as a libertarian?
Like many passionately concerned people concerned about the economy, leftists like Mr. Moore have their good moments, but they are as yet too ignorant of principles underlying market behavior, trade and exchange, and the meaning of profits--and losses--in the free market to be good libertarians.
Their socialist prejudices keep getting in the way, assuming examples of corruption and 'market failure' can be corrected by more or better intervention and regulation, and that the shortcomings were the result of "unregulated capitalism" when what they are really criticizing is kleptocracy and corporatism--the same kinds of "private/public partnership" that has been the hallmark of so-called progressive political economy for the past century or longer. Their confusion between the neomercantilist fascism of our existing system with laissez faire unregulated capitalism doesn't only slander capitalism, it unfortunately whitewashes the current system with all of its corruptions and flaws as well.
The fact that he, and people like him-still see the Fed as a product of "laissez faire capitalism" and free competition rather than government cartelization illustrates this well.Unfortunately, this puts them in the dismal position of ultimately sanctifying the very state power whose abuses they decry!
Perhaps Michael Moore (and his friends and supporters) will treat themselves to reading End the Fed by Ron Paul, Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt, and Speaking of Liberty by Lew Rockwell, along with viewing the truly excellent website www.lewrockwell.com, to shed his--and their--obsolete socialistic prejudices and misconceptions, and he will really be first rate!!
PEACE AND FREEDOM!!
David K.Meller
Spot on. Being a
Spot on. Being a fight-the-power guy is not enough to be a libertarian, not even close. Moore, like all socialists, morally objects to the accumulation of wealth and more, wants to stop it and spread it by force. Anecdotely alone, I can recall him saying 60% tax rates on the wealthy were acceptable, inciting union action to raise worker wages, responding to the question 'what do you have against profit, Mike' with the moral straw man 'profits aren't always good, what about the profits of selling crack'; let's see here... he has also said if the poor made $40k per year there would be no crime, a reputiation of personal responsibility. Michael Moore is nowhere near a libertarian.
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Ron Paul should be in this Film
If Dr. Paul is not, Moore loses credibility. Its like Moore is deliberately excluding Dr. Paul. I know Moore knows who Ron Paul is. Is Ron Paul even mentioned in this film. Moore has to answer this question.
Not yet
Perhaps if he would learn to distinguish corporatism and capitalism.
On Leno the other night he
On Leno the other night he said" we must get back to our roots and put the people in charge of the money."
He is on the right path but still needs some directing.
I wonder if he has ever seen Freedom to Fascism
It should be played with his movie at the theatres.
13hour: Thanks for info. There is hope for Moore.
I hope he does not start listening to BECK.
He needs to spent some time on the DP!
He says Capitalism is
He says Capitalism is anti-christian on the top video at www.michaelmoore.com
Definitely NOT a Libertarian
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A fan of socialized health care...
And gun bans?.....Libertarian?
Not quite.
Ralph Naderesque socialist maybe....
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