Relevant to Obama and the Democrats?

Actually I see it the other way around. It is the USA under GWBush that bears resemblance to Nazi Germany (the unitairan President, undoing of the Constitution and Geneva Convention.) And if YOU think what we did in Guantanamo and Abu-Graib WEREN'T torture, YOU sport the cajones to subject yourself to extreme temperature variations, sleep deprivation, forced nudity, painful stress positions, gut punching, handcuffed and hanging from overhead pipes, and best of all WATERBOARDING! How about YOU having your freedom stolen away from you, indefinitely detained without formal charge, denied access to an attorney or a trial all in the name of America with Liberty and Justice for all. And yet our home prisons house or housed Charles Manson, Jeffrey Dahmer, Ted Bundy, Son of Sam, Richard Ramirez, the UniBomber, Timothy McVey, child rapists and murderers, the BMI sniper, the 1983 WTC bomber and yet none of these people ever escaped to commit further harm to any American person. Actually no one has EVER escaped from a maximum security prison.

But you are right in that Obama, Pelosi, and Reid NEED to see this film for different reasons. We NEED to end the corporate lobbying of Washington. Get the Insurance industries and Wall Street crooks from pilfering this country and enslaving the people just like the coal miner in the movie was left with black lung, no job, and no future for his family, practically selling his daughter (their future) into slavery. Yes, and the feminist (abortion and gay equality rights) only to be ultimtely usurped and broken by the religious right (Mormons in the movie). And the doctor being silenced by society who don't accept science (that means catastrophic climate change, stem cell research, and new energy efficient sources.)

Finally Redgrave's character is a call to arms or UnArm our military spending in Iraq and reduce our efforts in Afganistan. Terrorism is fought by INTERNATIONAL POLICE EFFORTS and creating a liviable society in countries so that terrorist groups disguising as political parties can't take footholds. The Marshall plan PROVED it worked.

Yes, this film resonates to date, but NOT for the reasons the OP cited.

Barely a parallel. Why didn't you mention North Korea? Why didn't you mention Iran? The difference is the world is different. Terrorists are always going to be on this planet. We can only try to destroy their organizations, but torture, and torture by any other name smells as sour, torture only clarifies that we will resort to becoming what the Japanese were in WWII, and that leads to something worse than being attacked and killed. It leads to becoming the animals in the garbage heap of lost morals and of loss of humanity. Our founding fathers would be disgusted that we thought the best way to fight an enemy is to torture.

OK, maybe we should march into countries and bomb the hell out of them in a premptive basis until all the terrorist groups are destroyed, killing as many foreign citizens as we can, killing American troops by the hundreds or thousands, and getting the enemy first before they get us! WAIT, wasn't that what we fought AGAINST in WWII?