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Canadian Bacon — The Movie
Is this film prescient or what
Last night I watched a film which, in the current context of the totally dysfunctional executive branch of our government, run by a demented madman and enabled by the most sycophantic group of mental midgets that even Hollywood central casting could not imagine, turns out to be a brilliant satire on so much of what is wrong with the United States today.
That film is Canadian Bacon. It was made in 1995 and was written and directed by Michael Moore.
It did not do well at the time and is only rated 5.9 on IMDB and has a viewer’s score of 53% on Rotten Tomatoes and an abysmal critic's score of 19%.
It would do so much better today and deserves to be re-released, as it contains so many prescient elements of the fucked up political situation in which we find ourselves.
The premise of the movie is that the President of the United States is falling in the polls and, in an attempt to regain popularity, he starts a cold war with Canada.
A media campaign is instigated against Canada, demonizing them and calling out the many Canadians who walk amongst us, hiding in plain sight because of their white skin. They are like a sickening trickle of sticky maple syrup infecting the body politic as they ooze their way across our northern…
