Frontline: America's Great Divide

[XRubicon]

Not sure if this was already posted but this two part doc is great and worth your time:

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/americas-great-divide-from-obama-to-trump/

Watching part 2 now.

[maxsolomon]

1. I couldn't stand to watch, but my wife did.

She came to bed at 11 saying ranting everyone in our house needed to buy a gun, learn to use it, and get a concealed carry permit.

THAT kept me up for a while...

[lunasun]

2. Kick will watch pt 2 later . Pt 1 is already a rec from me

[TheCowsCameHome]

3. Good programming.

Part one especially, then shithead dominates part two.

[scarletwoman]

4. Giving your OP a rec so it will show up on the Greatest Threads page.

However, I tried watching Part 1 when it was broadcast on the local PBS station, but I couldn't make it through much more than the 1st half hour. It was just too painful - not to mention, rage-inducing.

I just couldn't bear to relive all the tea party/birther/republican bullshit that dogged Obama's presidency.

Plus - and this is really the main problem with the program - the predominant worldview behind the narration was subtly, but still evident, tainted by the usual mainstream media insistence on bothsiderism.

I'm just not interested in "balanced" coverage. I want to see the Republican party called out for the fascist, racist, lying, criminal, anti-democracy thugs that they are. And Republican voters called out for the racist, ignorant, dupes that they are.

THIS is what I would have liked the program to have been about: It's Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided with the New Politics of Extremism

[XRubicon]

5. I think it is a first draft of recent history

It is a good presentation of where we were and are now. I don't think it was at all kind to shithead and his regime.

People 20 years from now could watch it and have some understanding of what the hell happened.

[scarletwoman]

6. I can see it that way - but I honestly couldn't deal with it emotionally.

For me, having lived through so much pain and trauma in the political sphere (I'm 70 years old) watching it was too much akin to experiencing PTSD.

I was 14 when JFK was assassinated. My whole adult life has been filled with political murders, lies, wars, and betrayals.

I'm not interested in any sort of neutral observation of historical events. I want "what the hell happened" to be roundly and loudly condemned, and the villains to be called out for their odious calumnies and transgressions.

[Different Drummer]

7. Saw the first part of it earlier this week.

Very entertaining!