After reading the book, I feel a bit regretful that this film was shot. Gao Daquan, the main theme, now this time is launching a campaign advertisement that is more like the Democratic Party. Only our first lady is the real first lady! Maybe it is because of the mentality of being too eager for success. The documentary is too much like a promotional film. A bit sensational. The film took the trouble to show Michelle signing for sale in various cities, talking and shaking hands with fans, and the fans crying excitedly when they came to shake hands. I don't think this kind of publicity can have any good effect (refer to the picture of everyone crying for three fats together), I just feel that it is a bit embarrassing to watch. (Aside from the topic, the Democratic Party’s current campaign strategy is really worrying)
Just want to talk about a small detail near the end. Michelle said that the presidential election is like a game. Whoever comes out to vote will win. So she believes that the Democratic Party failed because "our people did not vote." I think this is the root cause of the failure of the Democratic Party. Even Michel, who is known as the flower of the slum, has divided the country into "us" and "them." "We" are righteous and should be united together, "they" are stupid and hopeless. As a result, it became more divided, and it only existed in their respective bubbles that the other party was unreasonable. In fact, think of Michelle’s most famous speech, when they go low, we go high, which also clearly distinguishes the enemy and the self. Maybe it's really because we have enemies to talk about politics, but I still look forward to a world without "poison cats".
Hayek wrote in "The Road to Serfdom" that Germany was once part of the civilized world before becoming a fascist totalitarian state. He was also "us":
When we devote all our energies to winning the war, it is sometimes difficult for us to remember that even before the war, many of the values we are now defending by fighting have been threatened in Britain and destroyed elsewhere. Although the countries that represent different ideals fight for their own survival, we must not forget that this fight is a conflict of ideas. This conflict of ideas was impregnated in the common European civilization not long ago; moreover, the many trends that peaked due to the creation of the totalitarian system are not limited to countries currently trapped under the totalitarian system. Although our primary task now is to win the war, the goal of winning the war is only to get another opportunity to solve these basic problems, and to find a way to avoid the fate of similar civilizations that threaten it.
Furthermore, it is pointed out that treating them as others is a more labor-saving way for us
At least, when we are stubborn with the enemy, it is easier for us to regard the enemy as something completely different from us, and what happens in those enemy countries cannot happen in our country. At least, when we think this way, we are more comfortable. However, in the years before the rise of the totalitarian system, the history of these countries can show that there are very few differences between us and these countries. Our external conflicts with these countries are a result of changes in European thinking. However, the thinking in these countries changes so quickly that it conflicts with our slow thinking. However, we are not unaffected by this change in thinking.
I think this logic is applied in the United States to describe the extreme left and the extreme right, and Trump's politics is also applicable. Perhaps as Hayek said, "The current crisis in the world is caused by the real mistakes we have committed; and our pursuit of some of our most cherished ideals is enough to produce results that are completely contrary to the original."
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