Obama’s New Movie, Same Message: Blame White People
By J.B. ShurkNetflix unveiled a movie last month called Leave the World Behind that was about as subtle as an Antifa-thrown brick through a windshield: societal chaos and global disaster are heading our way. Filled with Hollywood heavyweights (Julia Roberts, Mahershala Ali, Ethan Hawke, and Kevin Bacon — with Ali apparently taking over a role originally meant for Denzel Washington) and directed by Sam Esmail (the auteur behind the award-winning Mr. Robot), the stylish production was certainly meant to get people’s attention. Speaking of production, Barack and Michelle Obama (executive producers) and their narcissistically-named Higher Ground Productions company helped to give the apocalyptic tale a global audience.
Since its release, the movie has sparked a fever pitch of commentary. Hated by some and loved by others, a recurring complaint is that the movie is all build-up without any pay-off. It crawls along with a Hitchcockian rhythm of rising suspense and then abruptly ends without any explanation. Between beginning and end, a tiny community outside of New York City is hit with an Internet blackout, an out-of-control oil tanker running aground, electric grid failures, unusual animal behavior, strange ear-piercing noises that appear to cause mental confusion and tooth-loss, self-driving Teslas blocking highway escape, and menacing drones dropping red leaflets purportedly from foreign powers claiming responsibility for all the craziness. Oh, and Julia Roberts utters a bunch of lines to make sure that every viewer in the world knows white people are racist.
The audience watches all this and expects a big reveal to come crashing through the screen before the credits roll, but instead, we are left with some “woke” sermonizing. The climax of the movie occurs when Ali and Hawke (well-off political “progressives”) have a near-death standoff with distrusting neighbor Bacon (an American flag-waving, gun-toting “prepper” who inexplicably lives somewhere near the Hamptons). When the situation is finally defused (the unprepared leftists are desperately seeking medicine from a man they clearly believe is beneath them), Ali delivers a monologue about how his neighbor’s refusal to accede to their “we’re all in this together” demands confirms his worst fears — that all of these peculiar events are part of a relatively inexpensive hybrid warfare campaign meant to provoke the American people into fighting and killing each other.
In order to scare the bejesus out of Obama’s brain-dead, propaganda-susceptible, mask-wearing, “climate change”-bamboozled, sexually-confused, “We are the ones we’ve been waiting for” coalition of intolerant tyrants, there is even a scene depicting rogue members of the military (no doubt Trump voters!) bombing Manhattan to smithereens. I think that’s Obama’s way of encouraging his fellow Marxists to continue implementing George W. Bush’s “pre-emptive” war strategy here at home by attacking random Americans as if they have it coming.
You see, we are the real monsters in this movie. We are the ones to blame for the collapse of civilization. Our ultimate destruction won’t come from hostile foreigners, mysterious pandemics, cyber attacks, or the “Great Reset” plans of the World Economic Forum’s jackbooted “elites.” Huh-uh, we will all die because conspiracy-spreading MAGA Americans are inherently selfish and just can’t get enough of the “patriarchy” and “white supremacy”!
If you speak “woke-stupid,” the movie is a masterpiece indictment of “Trump’s America.” If you are a psychologically stable person with a virtuous sense of duty to God, family, and country, you are left wondering, “Why didn’t those rich people plan ahead for a rainy day?”
To be sure, there was ample foreshadowing suggesting that Americans would ultimately be blamed for their own suffering. The oil tanker that crashes into the beach is the “White Lion,” a reference to the early-seventeenth century privateer credited with delivering the first Africans to the colony of Virginia to be sold as indentured servants. We get it: oil and slavery are both really bad. In another please-hit-us-over-the-head-with-woke-history moment, a car radio frequency lands on 1619 as the camera lingers — a retch-inducing hat-tip to The New York Times’ propagandistic attempts to erase America’s 1776 foundations in liberty and rewrite the history of the United States as one irredeemably stained by slavery and “white supremacy.”
In yet another visual allusion, a young, white, male character in the movie wears a t-shirt with a prominent message — “OBEY” —from the same street artist (Shepard Fairey) who designed Obama’s “HOPE” poster before the 2008 election. If you’re “woke-stupid,” this is a clever critique of MAGA “authoritarianism.” If you are capable of independent thought (and too rational for Rachel Maddow’s neurotic neural programming), then you think to yourself, “Yup, the guy who forced Obamacare down our throats and has been a one-man super-salesman for social media censorship sure did sell a lot of HOPE-ium in order to brainwash his clueless supporters into volunteering for total obedience.”