Film maker Dinesh D’Souza was recently asked by Rob Bluey, the president and executive editor of The Daily Signal, “How can we live in a country where people hold such diametrically opposing views?“
D’Souza answered that he thinks “the problem is serious, but it is not quite as bad as we think for this reason.”
“The people on the Trump side, on the Republican side, are making a balanced judgment about Trump because they’re exposed to Trump, they’re exposed to the defenses of Trump, and they’re also exposed to the criticism of Trump, because none of us can avoid the mainstream media in our lives.”
“We see it,” he said. “We know about it. But now look at the other side, and I’m talking here about the rank-and-file Democrat.”
“The rank-and-file Democrat does not actually know a lot about Trump. They do not get the pro-Trump side at all. They get a nonstop propagandistic diet of anti-Trump polemic. If CNN has a panel of 17 people, they’re all anti-Trump. There may be two or three Republicans, but they’re selected because they’re anti-Trump.”
“So as a result, one is forgiven, because think about it, when you’re an intelligent person, how do discover a fact, right? You discover a fact when you see that fact appear in multiple sources, sources that you admittedly cannot check for yourself, but you think to yourself, well, if I see it in Barnes and Noble in a book, and then there it is on PBS, there it is on the history channel, there it is and Michael Moore made a film about it, Rachel Maddow’s talking about it, and here it is in the New York Times, well, it must be true, because why would all these independent people have made this up, the same thing?”
“They don’t realize that it’s actually more like the same bullet ricocheting off multiple walls and coming at you from different directions,” he continued. “You think that you’re getting independent sources of information, not realizing that all these people, not that they are conspiring together, but they’re more like birds in a flying formation going to Florida, all flying side by side in the same pattern.”
“So that’s what I’m getting at, is I think that a film like this would be very startling for an independent or a Democrat because most of what they see about it…”
“…So the movie is like you’ve heard all this stuff about Trump, now here’s Trump. And we’re going to talk, and you’re going to listen, and you’re going to see stuff that runs so counter to everything you’ve heard about Trump that you almost want to spit up your popcorn.”
“A film appeals to the head and the heart, and that’s part of the power of a film, because I often will hear conservatives say something to the effect of, ‘Well, the liberals do not think in a cognitively rational way, they appeal to emotion.’ There’s no question that with Kamala Harris they’re doing that. They’re basically saying, ‘Don’t trust your lying eyes.’”
“They’re telling the American people, ‘Don’t trust your pocketbook, don’t trust the prices you pay in the grocery store, don’t trust your retirement account, don’t even trust what you’ve seen and heard about Kamala Harris, because that’s made you dislike her. We have a new, manufactured Kamala Harris for you right here. You should believe in our mythology about Kamala Harris.’”
“It’s really based upon the presumption that the ordinary guy is a real buffoon, but it’s also based on the idea that the ordinary guy reacts only emotionally and not rationally. Well, the nice thing about a film is that a film operates primarily on the emotional medium, for sure.”
“That’s why films have a score. If you want to know what that music is doing under the film, it is regulating your emotions as you watch the film.”
“The good news is that if you do a good job with the emotional narrative, you can pack a lot of genuine, thoughtful information in a film, but if you make the mistake of making a film that has lots of thoughtful information but doesn’t have the emotional component, the film will not succeed.”
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D’Souza’s explanation of why conservative views are more balanced from being exposed to both good and bad information makes total sense. 🙂
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This is an excellent movie, as are many of D’Souza ‘s productions. The degree of evil thrown at President Trump is almost unbelievable.
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D’Souza nailed it, the left have no cognitive rational, they think with there emotions, there frontal lobes have been damaged or have not been developed. i have known people who swear the mainstream media is all about the truth and it is hard to explain to them that they are not about the truth, it saddens me that there that many irrational people out there
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Totally agree. I have been near people when they finally realize what they have thought about the media is a lie. Some break down. Their world perception is shattered. A good old fashion (non-progressive) church is a good place to begin their recovery.
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I love his perception and explanation of how to use emotion as leverage. It’s not dishonest to do so, because we do think “with the head and the heart.” Just tell the truth with passion, like striking a match for a good fire to start.
Since I don’t seem to ever get to movies, but I want to see this one, is it out yet? I feel dumb for asking, but is it?
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Yes, it is out.
https://vindicatingtrump.com/
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