America decided this one already idiot
FOLLOW THE LAWS and shut the fuck up
America decided this one already idiot
FOLLOW THE LAWS and shut the fuck up
It's interesting that even with the US VP providing some priceless free promotion for the film, it's managed such a poor box office return. At this point, it's earned only a little over $17 million, total. The problem is that it had a relatively decent opening night (presumably based on the Christian-right hype machine and a relatively wide release), but then dropped like a rock -- in fact, according to Box Office Mojo, it had the 21st largest Friday to Saturday drop on an opening weekend of any film ever.
Based on the strong opening night, more theaters booked it -- a 43% increase in the numbers of theaters showing it between week one and week two. But they got burned. In week two, its weekly gross collapsed: falling by about half. And at this point, it's only earning $1,845 per screen. It turns out the anti-abortion audience is really enthusiastic, but not terribly large.
Historically speaking, the right almost never looks good with the benefit of hindsight, and the left almost always does. Two or three generations after ideas are considered radically liberal, they're considered self evidently wise. And the trend with reproductive choice has definitely been leftward -- as recently as 1970, legal abortion was extremely rare in the world, whereas now it's available in the large majority of advanced nations. So, a more reasonable bet, based on historical knowledge, is that 50 years from now the anti-choice crowd will be looked on with the disdain that most have when regarding prior generations of conservatives today (e.g., those who supported the monarchy, supported state-mandated religion, supported slavery, opposed women's suffrage, opposed desegretation, opposed marriage equality, etc.) It's hard to think of any historical cases where history ended up vindicating the positions taken by conservatives.
Phantasmal (04-23-2019)
Stretch (04-23-2019)
I think the conservatives look terrible both in the context of conservative, hard-line Soviets and conservative fascists. The liberals who fought for more freedom in those regimes look good. Within the US, and other advanced nations, you see something similar, where the benefit of hindsight makes the liberal advocates of social democratic change (e.g., Social Security, labor protections, Medicare, etc.) look good, while the reactionaries who fought to conserve the older and more primitive economic systems look bad.
A+ for spin but a big F for content. Capitalism i.e. the West, won the cold war and defeated communism. There were many on the left in the U.S. and around the world that supported communism (and socialism). Oh, they'll be quiet about it today for sure if they are still alive but that doesn't erase the history. Communism is in the dust bin of history. Capitalism (the right) won.
Social democracy beat both capitalism and communism. You won't find a purely capitalistic or communistic system anywhere in the world. The formula used by all the highly successful nations is similar: a mixed economy with capitalistic and socialistic aspects (e.g., government-regulated semi-free markets, with various social spending policies), with some form of representative democracy and protections of individual rights. The liberals overcame the conservatives in places like the US and the Soviet Union alike, with people like FDR and Gorbachev driving each towards a hybrid system that put greater emphasis on human rights and less emphasis on abstract economic absolutes. They had to overcome the conservatives who pushed for a more hard-line approach, but the liberals won, as they tend to do over any sufficiently extended timeline.
Phantasmal (04-23-2019)
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