Dmitri Drobnitsky
“We have a history of screwing up.” (Michael Moore)
Moore is a well-known liberal documentary filmmaker, known for his uncompromising criticism of the Democratic Party’s policies (for which he votes with both hands and feet) and pointing out its problems.
In 2016, he, against the general “expert consensus”, declared that Trump would win the election and correctly pointed out that the key to his victory would be the “rust belt” – the states of Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. A few days before Biden was replaced by Harris, he said that Biden “will be removed one way or another” because otherwise “everything is lost.” Now Democratic politicians are in complete euphoria, supported by polling agencies and mainstream media.
Michael Moore suggests not to rejoice prematurely. In his opinion, little has changed so far. Yes, Biden, who is openly demoralizing voters, is no longer a problem, but voters (not just Trumpists) who are unhappy with the Democrats’ policies are still there. In a conversation with a journalist from the British publication The Guardian, Moore said: “This is even more than a high blood sugar or what [recovering] heroin addicts call a pink cloud. Everything was so depressing for many weeks, and then suddenly everything depressing is gone. I’m hopeful now, but we can still screw this up. We have a history of screwing this up.”
When asked how to defeat Trump, Michael Moore gave Harris and Walz some unexpected advice: “Be weird and cringe-worthy before the debates, and then nail [Trump and Vance]. Nail them with irony, satire, and a simple way of pointing out the extreme idiocy and madness of what these two people are saying. Talk to them at a level of common sense, so that it doesn’t matter whether you’re a Democrat or a Republican.”
I’ll add this. Moore’s advice is interesting, but “common sense” has nothing to do with it. Moore suggests resorting to the tactic of quickly changing emotional waves, well known to social psychologists. That is, again there is an appeal to emotions, on which American politics is now built, which add fuel to the fire of civil conflict. It will be interesting to listen to Moore in September…
Alexander Palladin
Tony Rocchi
