"Make Mine Freedom." Amazing cartoon prophecy from 50 years ago.

[Atman]

[zeemike]

1. And it was a prophecy that was wrong.

The snake oil salesman did not sell us communism or socialism but Randism and now the state is controlled by corporations...and is telling us what to do...and did it in the name of free market capitalism wrapped in the flag.
The irony is that Fascism won in the long game.

[Atman]

3. Yup. There was a lot wrong with it.

Ironically, it was selling an "ISM," Capitalism. It also contained a fair amount of "sexism" and "jingoism." I doubt many today would be as proud and excited that Americans consume so much of the world's resources relative to our population (the part about cars). Still, it is kind of incredible to see how politics is politics, the same parties are represented here (I particularly likes the broken record on the politician's head telling us "Everything is all right!&quot . I didn't say it RIGHT, just as don't think many of the prophets of yore were right. But it sure was interesting! Just my humble opinion.

[starroute]

2. If it's got zoot suits and bobby soxers, it isn't 50 years old

More like 70, maybe.

[Atman]

4. Not in Technicolor.

It's one of those "educational" movies the teacher would show us in elementary school when she wanted to sneak off to the teachers lounge.

[ellennelle]

5. propaganda

harding college and john sutherland and alfred p. sloan.

go here:

http://www.awn.com/animationworld/animated-propaganda-during-cold-war-part-two

a quote:

A story that sounds too simplistic to be accurate is Sloan heard George Stewart Benson, president of Harding College in Searcy, Arkansas, deliver a fundamentalist anti-labor diatribe and was so moved that he decided that day to underwrite Harding Colleges plans to produce educational anti-Communist, pro-free enterprise system films. In any case the Sloan Foundation did give Harding a lot of money to produce propaganda films (reports vary from $300,000 to $597,870).

the dead giveaway is "the state" being painted in such horrifying and extreme terms.

these corporate guys will never quite grasp the concept that "the state" is us, US; we, the people.

ya gotta wonder if lupo, who introduced the film even investigated. but then again, he may well swallow all of it.

be sure to read everything at that link; almost all of it pretty damning.

[another_liberal]

6. Tea Party logo?

That "Don't tread on me" crap on the LCL logo frame before the cartoon started is all I needed to see.

What is this doing on Democratic Underground?

[deancr]

7. Here's our man

Seems a bit libertarian for DU:

http://smargus.com/tag/lcl-report/

[another_liberal]

8. Very Tea Party in every way.

This is worse than the straight up Fox News clips we used to see here now and then. DU is not the place.

[Atman]

9. DU is not the place to discuss history?

Seriously? The roots of this Tea Party crap started here, with stuff like this that was shown to my generation as young children. I don't agree with it, but it's just as worthy of analysis and discussion as any other post. Just because you don't like it doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

[another_liberal]

10. I objected to using DU as a platform to promote the joker who introduces the cartoon.

Does he really deserve exposure on a web site devoted to promoting Democratic ideas and initiatives?

If you want to discuss the cartoon itself, then give us the cartoon, perhaps with some analysis of it's content and historical significance. Why did you even include the fool's intro? The cartoon must be available on YouTube without the Tea Party goof and his self-promotional intro, right?

[MrScorpio]

11. That's for the laugh

It's pretty ridiculous Cold War era propaganda.

[pam4water]

12. Capitalism is an ism XD

[KansDem]

13. Let's see: Private property is sacred...

Yet, it didn't stop the "rational one" from taking the property of the "salesman" and dispersing it to the would-be customers before they signed the agreement.

Yeah, "private property" is sacred...as long as it's his private property!

[Atman]

14. Don't forget the Tea Bagger ending.

Not-too-thinly veiled call to arms.

[byronius]

15. Smelly. Plus, the zoot suit was an African American slur.

'Amazing prophecy'? WTF?