'2016' By Bill Sardi

Oh yes, go see 2016: Obama’s America. You need to experience this movie, its sights, sounds and lessons. Its moral is one that only a wide screen and surround-sound will deliver in its undistracted fullness.

This movie does not take you to the cherry tree that a young George Washington is said to have chopped down imprudently at the age of six after being given his first hatchet (a story that is believed to be a fable, but has a moral lesson in it – to tell the truth). Nor does the movie recount the story about General Washington skimming a silver dollar across the Delaware River (actually a piece of slate across a much narrower river). It takes its viewers to the African grave of a polygamous, over-imbibing absentee father who his son idolized – a disillusioned boy who was to become leader of the Western World.

Oh, this kind of rags to riches story is the kind of stuff America is made of, but like the above exaggerations of George Washington’s past, it is a fabrication to its core.

2016 is an experience that will cause all kinds of thoughts and reflections to race through your mind. If you pay careful attention, while meticulous in its accuracy, as its message builds it pits its viewers in the contrived match of conservative Republican versus liberal Democrat, of guns versus butter, of socialism versus private enterprise. The problem is, America is already a socialist state, and it can no longer afford the largesse of its military or its welfare state. There is no arguing for one position or the other. The issue is how to undo both of them now that neither one is affordable.

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