America: Imagine the World Without Her (Movie)

Hello, World!  This is C. Roxanne Maxwell again, this time with a sort of movie review of the docudrama entitled:  America, Imagine the World Without Her.

What if Washington was killed by a sniper’s bullet? What if the south won the Civil War?  What if Germany built the atomic bomb first?  Dinesh D’Souza’s bold and controversial docudrama America, Imagine the World Without Her, asks these questions as it attempts to show America that she is was, and still is, a great country. The movie brings many forgotten facts back to light, and watching it is not time wasted.  Based on the book of the same name, America, Imagine the World Without Her is an eye-opening film that will either make the viewer want to sue D’Souza and throw him in jail, or feel a new sense of patriotism for this country.

   

D’Souza put America on what might be described as a trial.  In his docudrama, he answered the many charges against America with history and interviews with people who have experience the American Dream.  The accusations were the theft of land and the genocide of the Native Americans, theft of half of Mexico during the Mexican War, theft of freedom from the African slaves, theft of world resources, and finally, theft of the American Dream through the free market system. D’Souza answers these questions from a historical perspective, quoting primary sources such as Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, Alexis de Tocqueville and others.

  The thorn in America’s side that the film discussed that relates to this blog is the supposed theft of the American Dream. Big corporate companies are ripping off the consumer with their high prices and low wages.  Though D'Souza's points in favor of the American Dream were not his strongest, they were still valid.  D'Souza set up the example of a hamburger stop selling hamburgers at a 15 cent profit.  D'Souza then compared that to the cost of the customer making a hamburger at home, showing that the cost of making a sandwich was often more expensive than buying one at his shop.  The docudrama discussed what many politicians today are claiming about the American Dream, analyzing it and trying to interpret what is being said.

Politicians and historians are now trying to shame America, and bring its destruction from the inside.  The Revolutionary War was fought for the establishment of America.  The Civil War was fought for the preservation of America.  World War II was fought for the safekeeping of America.  Our fight is for the restoration of America.  President Reagan once said, the American anthem is the only one that ends with a question.  Every generation must answer that question.  “Oh say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave? O’re the land of the free, and the home of the brave?”

If you wish to watch the full documentary, it is available to watch for free on YouTube.