Michael Moore: 'America is a Liberal Nation'

Source:FORA-TV- Filmmaker and New-Left political activist Michael Moore.

"Filmmaker Michael Moore cites Americans' positions on several issues to support his claim that America is a predominantly liberal nation. 

Here Comes Trouble: Stories from My Life is an unflinchingly honest, take-no-prisoners ride through the life of Oscar-winning filmmaker and bestselling author Michael Moore. Moore shares far-ranging, irreverent, and stranger-than-fiction vignettes from his early life. One moment he's an 11-year-old boy lost in the Senate and found by Bobby Kennedy; and in the next, he's inside the Bitburg cemetery with Ronald Reagan. At 17, he goes to get a snack and ends up on the news, creating a firestorm that helps eliminate racial discrimination at private establishments across America. Funny, eye-opening, and moving, it's the book he has been writing and living his entire life. - Sixth & I Historic Synagogue

Michael Moore is an Academy Award-winning American filmmaker, author and liberal political commentator. He is the director and producer of Bowling for Columbine, Fahrenheit 9/11, and Sicko, three of the top five highest-grossing documentaries of all time. In September 2008, he released his first free movie on the Internet, Slacker Uprising, documenting his personal crusade to encourage more Americans to vote in presidential elections. He has also written and starred in the TV shows "TV Nation" and "The Awful Truth." Moore is a self-described liberal who has criticized globalization, large corporations, assault weapon ownership, the Iraq War, U.S. President George W. Bush and the American health care system in his written and cinematic works. In 2005, Time magazine named him one of the world's 100 most influential people." 

From FORA-TV 

"Michael Moore announced the release date of and showed off footage from his upcoming documentary focused on President Donald Trump during his appearance on ‘The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.’" 

Source:The Hollywood Reporter- Filmmaker and New-Left political activist Michael Moore, on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert.

From The Hollywood Reporter 

I don't mean to sound wishy-wash here, or some type of establishment Democrat whose scared for their political life about offending both their left-wing, as well as Center-Left and Independent voters that have voted from them in the past, but it depends on what you mean by a Liberal when it comes to whether America is a liberal nation or not.  

Americans tend to believe in both personal freedom and economic freedom, which is what liberal democracy is about. We don't tend to be antigovernment, but we don't want government trying to run our lives for us and trying to make the very same economic and personal decisions that most Americans have been making for most of their adult lives. 

Americans tend to want government to: 

Protect our streets 

Defend our borders 

Prevent foreign invaders from attacking 

Pay for the infrastructure that we all use 

Pay for good schools and teachers 

Help people who've fallen on hard times get back on their own feet

Regulate the private market to protect workers and consumers from predators, but not try to run private businesses.  

What I've just laid out are some basic not just liberal or American, but common sense values of people tend to want government to do for them and are willing to pay government to do for them. So if that's what your idea of a Liberal is, then I guess we are a liberal nation. 

But if you believe that Liberals believe private, for-profit, corporations, by definition are bad things, or that independent wealth is a bad thing, that the world is too big and complicated a place to let individuals manage their own affairs for themselves and you need big government to do that for them, or capitalism is racist, personal freedom is dangerous, free speech is bigoted, then no, we're not a liberal nation. But those aren't liberal values. 

Liberal values are the values that come from liberal democracy, which is based around individual rights, equal rights and justice, limited government, and the rule of law. Not social democracy or communism.  

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