Simplifications, generalizations, and outright lies
The film accused Lyndon Johnson of reversing JFK's Executive Order 11110 immediately after Kennedy's death as a way to implicate both the Banks and Johnson in the assassination of The U.S. President... In truth it remained in effect until Ronald Reagan reversed it with E.O. 12608 in September of 1987.
The cartoon character that looks suspiciously like Danny McBride also flat-out lies about the Federal Reserve, calling it a Private Bank run by shareholders. In fact the whole critique of the American Banking systems is pretty much a thinly veiled repackaging of the old standard worldwide Jewish banker conspiracy theory.
This film is nothing more than an attempt to take advantage of the American public's general ignorance concerning it's own economy, and evoke anger in it's viewers. It does not seek to inform and is not intended for informed audiences... there is a reason it's presented as a nonthreatening cartoon. It's rhetoric is well crafted and sure to stir up emotions in a lot of people who may or may not do any further investigations into the subject.
No doubt there are terrible, unthinkable, unknowable problems with our economy, our government, and our banking system. Problems that need to be solved and probably never will be. But this film doesn't even begin to know the root cause or possible solutions to any of them... Except violence... it advocates a lot of violence.
Any actions the American people take based on the sort of misinformation presented in The American Dream are at best going to accomplish nothing, and at worst completely destabilize what little faith the people in this country still have in its institutions.
Any day now I expect to see Glenn Beck lend endorsement to this little piece of propaganda in the form of a glowing review.
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