I'll focus on whatever I want, thank you very much.  It's not like I'm taking a taking some revolutionary propaganda 203 course from you. I'm surprise to have such an authoritarian attitude coming from someone like you.

And it's not like you're discussing some facet of the video that struck you.  It just offer the video and even make its title the title of your blog.  Seems you have embraced it in its entirety.  If I just offer in blog Hamlet as one of greatest plays ever written, then I expect people to direct whatever criticism they have to me, not William Shakespeare. 

And as far as the message politically goes it is rather mundane and overly simplistic, no matter how true.  The whole Obama equals Bush is about as 10 grade political analysis as one gets.   I would say the same thing about Koyaanisqatsi: Life Out of Balance, even though I enjoyed it immensely and would recommend people watching it. 

In other words, as far as the message goes: meh.

Once again, my dear naive child,

If it is no concern to you that people don't like it, then why share on a community blog site.  In general, a revolutionary activist tends to want people to become persuaded and switch their paradigm to his or her paradigm.  Since you make the point that the video, which you voluntarily and consciously shared with the community, is socio-political commentary the conclusion is that you agree with the content of the video unless stated otherwise.  It is pretty obvious that you think the video makes in its commentary a valid point (or points) about the current condition.

If you really actually do care about this country as you claim to you do, then you should bloody well should care whether people like the commentary you provide them. Otherwise the best one can claim is that you're just a performance artist posing as angry young arrogant revolutionary Che wanna-be.

Your responses highlight perfectly the trap too many hardcore activists fall into - they believe that if people are not acting and thinking exactly like them, then they must not be aware of the things they are aware of.  Of course, seeing oneself as one of the few truly enlightened ones is a feel-good state of being.  It is easy to want to grasp it, and to sustain it. When people don't fall into your authoritarian demands regarding insights and action, it reinforces that feel-good emotion - so much so you will (unconsciously) present your commentary in such a way as to alienate people, thus maintaining your position as one of the few chosen ones. 

I have to agree with what erica wrote. 

Sigh. I'm going to avoid commenting any more on Bruce's threads; it's only going to make me look grumpy, and I don't see why I should provide favorable Google search juju to such an unpleasant fellow. He's not interested in my opinion, and should I ever join up with the "revolution" I hope he's well occupied on the other end of it. 

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So it's catch-and-release for you, Bruce. Good luck in your quest to change the world without making an actual plan or being nice to anybody! I suspect that if anyone could get that program to work, it would be you. Happy trails, friend.

AA, do you remember that run of trolls at the old TPM, who would generate right wing talking points with such machine like perfection that their authors were eventually revealed to be parodists with nothing personally invested in their speech? The cut and paste nature of this material combined with the evident delight in agitated responses suggests something equally disingenuous is at work here. Even the arrogance sounds contrived.