Opening today as VOD on Amazon and Apple, “The Great American Lie” is an
urgent, heartfelt documentary about the increasing difficulties faced by
lower-income Americans since the Reagan “revolution”. You will be
reminded of the continuity with the current White House occupant when a
clip of “the Gipper” features him promising to make America great again.
On the plus side, the film is replete with statistics that illustrate
how we have become “two Americas”. Thefilm’s website
<http://therepresentationproject.org/film/great-american-lie/> gives you
a flavor of the kind of numbers that are presented throughout the film:
We are currently living in one of the greatest periods of social and
economic inequality in our nation’s history. Today, the top 0.1% of
Americans own as much wealth as the bottom 90%. In 2017 alone, 82% of
new wealth created went to the top 1%.
Meanwhile, one in five American children and one in eight American women
live in poverty – despite us being one of the wealthiest countries on
earth. Increasing inequality has created deep social, economic, and
political divides. Clearly the status quo is not working.
The film pivots between interviews with numerous academic and
journalistic pundits who are appalled by the growing inequality and
people who have been affected by it. We hear from Joseph Stiglitz and
Nicholas Kristof throughout, as well as a host of psychologists,
sociologists, and other social scientists. They all decry America’s
failure to be more like European social democracies. Although Bernie
Sanders’s name is not mentioned once in the film, “The Great American
Lie” makes the same kind of points he made on the campaign stump.
full: https://louisproyect.org/2020/10/02/the-great-american-lie/
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