Death of a Nation (2018)

A documentary that details things that infuriate the truths the left doesn't want to here.

Dinesh D'Souza's "Death of a Nation" perfectly exemplifies the bias in movie reviewers: Rotten Tomatoes Score: 0/88. Not a single reviewer liked it, 88% of the audience does. A bit of rehash for history buffs, but some surprising reveal for those mis-educated in public school. These are the truths that the Marxist left doesn't want to watch or consider.

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~ Aristotle Sabouni
Created: 2018-08-10

What about the movie?[edit | edit source]

It's a documentary that details things that infuriate the left including:

The racist history of the Democratic party, and how their divisiveness has existed since Andrew Jackson.
How the left uses accusations of racism, sexism, classism to silence their opponents (so this is nothing new)
How fascism is a left wing ideology (duh!)
How the fascists and the left (FDR) had a mutual affection until WWII, and how the Nazi's modeled some of their policies after Democrat policies in the South (both pre and post civil war)
It parallels the left's tantrum of Lincoln winning and starting the civil war, to their current tantrum of Trump winning.
It even dives in and interviews the Alt-Right and shows how they came from the Occupy Movement, and how their views align more with Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, than Donald Trump

These are all well documented and easily researched facts. So some far-left Historians hated it and said it was misleading -- despite the fact that it is littered with clips, quotes and evidence. As I've dived into all this long before this movie, it was a little shallow (surface stuff), but the deeper stuff supports the macro point even more (it would just be too dry for a documentary). And it still offered some good examples, or clips that I hadn't seen. So while it is a shallow and high level overview, from a definite right wing perspective.... and it does cherry pick and glosses over a lot of nuance has to get glossed over to fit the format -- it's far more accurate than the average historical movie or documentary that comes out of Hollywood. And if you dived into the nuance and counter-factuals on both sides, it would become dryer, and more boring, but still have many of the same macro-conclusions:

The National Democratic Socialists in America and Germany are far more aligned than Trump's brand of National Populist Capitalism ever was
And the DNC's techniques of bullying their opponents through use of slander and "the big lie", leans more towards soft fascism than traditional Americanism or American Conservatism.

Film Critics[edit source]

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If you want to see leftist bias in media, you just have to look at all the examples of how far off from their reviewers are from their viewers. I use the spread as a predictor of whether I'll like a film. Big spread with audience over critics? I'm going to like it. But big spread with critics over audience? I'll usually side with audience.

Film Critics/Throwing Shade

Tatometer	Summary
	Death of a Nation - This is one of the most obious movies about marxist bias in mainstream media (and their reviewers). They want to control the culture and narrative, and this one tells historical facts that the far left refuses to consider: that their side has ever done anything wrong in the past, present or will in the future. 0% of them liked it, yet 88% of the Audience did.

Conclusion[edit | edit source]

So it's pretty good, not great. Most of it was rehash for me, and a bit shallow. It doesn't deserve a 0% rating as it is far better and uses far fewer dirty tricks than a Michael Moore film, that the same reviewers and critics will all love -- not because they really care about the accuracy or omissions (or that documentaries have to go a mile high and an inch deep), but because it preaches things they want to believe. The fact that Moore's less accurate, honest, and does far worse in all the areas they'll criticize Dinesh for, just proves their bias more than his.

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