“Make Mine Freedom” is a 1948 short film produced by Harding College to raise awareness of the dangers of Communism and Fascism, as well as state control for the “good” of the people (which is bad for the people and good for the state). It features a snake oil salesman, Dr. Utopia, selling bottles of “ISM” which promises to do everything, even make “the weather perfect every day.” All it requires is that you give up “everything I have including my freedom and the freedom of my children, and my children’s children, in return for which, said ISM promises to take care of me forever.”
January 10th, 2010 at 7:13 pm
This is so perfect. Be careful what you wish for. Change and Hope is a great message, but read the fine print and get past the marketing flash. Entrepreneurs and a free capital society will be the only way that freedom is going to continue. Remember what America’s founding fathers intended when they wrote the constitution.
January 11th, 2010 at 2:44 am
Agreed. It would be nice to see what capitalism can really do without the banking cartel’s monopoly on money and centrally-planned interest rates impeding economic activity.