Don’t Be A Sucker! is a short film made in 1943 by the US War Department to help educate Americans on how not to fall for the lies and rhetoric of fascist regimes and upstart dictators! ------------------ WATCH DON’T BE A SUCKER! archive.org/details/DontBeaS1947 CHECK OUT THE NEW WEBSITE www.BigMacKrell.com SPREAD THE WORD! SHARE THE SHOW! goo.gl/NudBiK SHOW OFF YOUR SUPPORT WITH A SECRET SCREENING PINBACK BADGE! roothm.storenvy.com/products/17757338-secret-screening-pinback-badge SUPPORT THE SHOW AND UNLOCK COOL BONUS CONTENT ON PATREON! www.patreon.com/BigMacKrell CONTACT DOUGLAS MACKRELL AT SecretScreeningDM@gmail.com ------------------ Website www.BigMacKrell.com Facebook www.facebook.com/BigMacKrell/ Facebook Group Page www.facebook.com/groups/ROotHM/ Twitter twitter.com/DouglasMacKrell Instagram instagram.com/douglasmackrell G+ www.google.com/+BigMacKrell ----------------- MORE INFORMATION ON DON’T BE A SUCKER en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don't_Be_a_Sucker! www.imdb.com/title/tt0275310/ ------------- VIDEOS ABOUT DON’T BE A SUCKER! Don't Be a Sucker - 1947 youtu.be/23X14HS4gLk Don't Be A Sucker (1947) | U.S. War Department youtu.be/1EURwLmYFP0 Don't Be a Sucker! - U.S. War Department Archive (1943) youtu.be/0IXfnN1HuVI --------------- Don’t Be A Sucker is a fifteen minute short film released for free to theaters across the United States. It was actually re-released again in 1947, and then passed along to public schools who recycled it yearly. Odds are, some of your grandparents might remember seeing this film as kids - but for unfortunately for most, the film has been forgotten and lost to time. The film explains how the Nazis used this message to come to power by discrediting the media and controlling information through book burnings and the imprisonment and vilification of educators, academics, and activists. How in addition to murdering the Jews, they discredited, vilified, and dismantled any group that could be united against them in any meaningful way. This included churches, fraternities, labor unions, and any social group not affiliated directly with the Nazi Party. Don’t Be A Sucker is not propaganda. It’s a tool to see through and avoid propaganda. What makes this film work so well is that Mike is painted as gullible, but not stupid or foolish. He’s a man who bought the politician’s fear mongering and promises of a “better tomorrow” hook line and sinker, but he learns the error of his ways and moves forward ultimately enlightened. Mike learns how not to be a sucker, and in turn, so does the viewer. Why am I sharing this film today? I’m not going to dance around it. As of the making of this video it’s barely two weeks into Donald Trump’s Presidency. A baldfaced con man who came into power by following the same steps outlined in this film. He vilified minorities, capitalized on dramatic party partisanship, falsely promised a better life for the outmoded working class, and preyed on misogynistic fears of female empowerment to get into the White House. And now that he has power, he has pulled every dirty trick in the book to dismantle the checks and balances within our government so that he can maintain that power. He has attempted to discredit the media through manipulation and lies. He has discredited governmental intelligence and security agencies to install his own echo chamber of personal interests. He has installed his crony cabinet, designed to further discredit government funded science, dismiss desperately needed environmental and economic sanctions, and destroy public education. He has sunk untold trillions of government funding into building a foolish and impossible southern border wall. He has ignored the courts and further stripped women of their reproductive rights. He has banned specifically selected countries from entering America based on their imagined radical religious beliefs, and in doing so, discredited the entire Judicial branch of our government by ignoring their orders - and removing those who sought to stop him. All while the craven cowards of the GOP dismantle and loot Social Security and repeal the ACA. Robbing millions of Americans of their Health Insurance and wrecking the entire American healthcare system for generations to come.

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