Buffalo Boy's Blog

I watched the latest Michael Moore documentary yesterday, Capitalism: A Love Story and after watching it, it was Michael's best work thus far, it was the most challenging to him and to his viewers, but if you get your head around the bashing of the capitalistic system and stopped and listened instead of assuming that if not capitalism then he must be pushing socialism, you got a movie that ties in everything he has done in his career.

It summed up everything he has tried to do since his first documentary Roger and Me. The roots of this mess go back to Reagan who every conservative seemed to worship, and the debate over universal healthcare and fair wages go back to FDR and the new deal which was a great deal but most republicans forget that.

My favorite part of the movie was a scene featuring FDR introducing his "2nd Bill of Rights". Perhaps if he had lived a few years longer we would have seen that come to fruition and the landscape of this country would be much, much different, and much much better. Most importantly, FDR would have had us on the way to universal healthcare.