I know this is the most tired of tropes but ... Wiemar liberals reborn.
You can definitely tell they they went ... whoops and tacked on the last 30 minutes of the movie to make him seem like the bad guy. The entire film goes into a severe tonal shift.
Ahoyhoy, my Black Book of Agriculture has the count at trillions. Checkmate
Just like the experimental warship camouflage - it's a weak floating structure
So I'm relying on more knowledgeable bears here, but this is basically a manifestation of unions without theory right?
Without state support unions will be assaulted by capitalistic mentalities and turn into gangs?
Laughing in hell eating pizza
The power of beans and rice compels you to succeed!
Liberalism is in the spinal cord - this move excises liberalism.
Ahhhh - well that definitely plays into the Midwestern dad who tells fish stories vibe he's doing.
The success of the 9/11 attacks cannot be understated (see Jean Baudrillard's The Spirit of Terrorism).
After a supposed victory over an ideological opponent (USSR), the US engaged in building the "rules based international order" and, after a frenzy of neoliberal export (Bosnia), began to show rot. The cultural angst of the late 90's - unintentionally enunciated in Fukiyama's "End of History" - reflected the hollow promise of the capitalist vision.
The 9/11 attacks forced the contradictions of this aimless and self-destructive impulse into overdrive and spawned an unfocused frenzy of jingoism which served to mask the profound disquiet festering at the core of the American psyche.
That ideological bankruptcy has forced into focus the fundamental inability of capitalism to build a resonant faith in structural stability and justice.