Complicated as hell but simple in principle...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yn9nyPp_UGk

Politics is extremely difficult to understand, especially on the Global scale. How can anyone really know what is going on in Congress or the Senate or in the President's inner ring, and then what media outlets can we really trust to give us news on a Global level. We turn to the media and get nothing but more bull *beep* and inane arguing from the fringe left and fringe right. The atmosphere has grown worse and worse and it almost feels like Politics is purposely trying to divide people so they can keep control - at least speaking from the current culture in the USA.

I am only speaking about my experiences living in the United States right now. We are a deeply divided country and the media eats that *beep* up. To be fair, it seems that most people in the USA enjoy taking a side (right vs left, religious vs atheist, war monger vs pacifist, socialist vs communist vs capitalist vs hippy scum vs corporate elite and on and one and on). These labels are insanely illogical and detrimental to helping any of us.

Issues are not this easy to be painted as only two sided but we continue to live under this spectrum in the US. Abortion is still brought up every election cycle to get the voting public motivated. But no solutions are ever given to this insanely complicated issue. Do you make it illegal and put women in jail? I always thought the Supreme Court came to the most wise compromise that this is strictly a women's health issue but politicians who care nothing about abortion as an issue continue to milk this issue to get people active in their campaigns. I am not saying that the prolifers or prochoicers are right or wrong. I am just saying that the issue of abortion is way too complicated to just say "stop killing babies".

Somehow trying to offer everyone affordable healthcare is socialist and will lead to death panels. Just some of many example of where instead of looking at the issue critically and trying to solve our problems, we keep arguing with each other to make our selves feel like we are a part of the political process. We are the pawns.

The biggest realization anyone can make is that we have no power in the overall scheme of things. When we look at the world becoming a global marketplace and so many new power structures being created, the role of the individual in determining who runs their govt will keep diminishing until we have no voice left. It may even be at this point already but we are just so wrapped up in just trying to survive and try to enjoy the free time we have that we have no concept of how messed up this world is becoming.

And then you watch a movie like Winter on Fire and it gives you hope. It gives you fear. It gives you furious rage. It makes you feel worthless for never fighting for anything you would truly die for. I am sure many people have fought for freedom in one way or another. I am sure many people know someone who has had to fight through oppression and radical governments/leaders. Maybe it is just that in the United States we feel so disconnected from the world and we don't truly know what this experience would be like if something like this happened here.

Seriously, if you live in the USA, can you really see this happening here? Would thousands of people ever storm the Capital building like that? Would that ever be a reality? And if so, what would be the impetus to create such a revolution? I just don't believe that government troops would shoot and kill US citizens. Am I just too naïve? I know there are cases in the past and every power structure is set up to survive above all else, but isn't America still the beacon of freedom where individuals can select their own destiny? I hope we still are at least.

I guess what I am really getting at is that we are such a divided country that I don't know if we could ever become a united front like those in Ukraine. Sure, we are a young country and we already had to fight for our independence and not everyone believed in that cry for freedom or either, but we seemed trapped in this malaise pitting dems vs repubs where they really are one in the same.

The question is what kind of power do we really have over our government? We have 2 choices for political affiliation. 2 choices for President. Unless you are a real player in the "money rules politics" game, what power does anyone of us have? Do you really feel like you are making a difference when you vote? I used to but now I just feel like another jackass pretending to feel like my voice matters at all.

Anyone who thinks this movie is propaganda is pretty ignorant in my opinion. This is clearly meant to look at the struggle of the people in the square and investigate why people were willing to die for their cause. Do I pretend to know all the politics of Eastern Europe? Hell No. The only thing I can say I know is that when a government is so quick to repress a movement of the people and go as far as shooting into a crowd, there is a serious issue with that President and his agenda. The guy escapes to Russia like a war criminal in the night. Seems pretty straight forward to me. If someone who is a supporter of the other side can try to explain how this movie distorts that truth, please do so. But I really doubt anyone could show how people without weapons (at least the majority of which I saw in the documentary) are the bad guys and the guys in full body armor and machine guns shooting at these people are the good guys.

I can't really see how this film is propaganda of any kind. Were there more radical parts involved in the demonstrations? Maybe. But this is natural to any revolution. The militiamen who fought the British were called terrorists but we now hold them as American heroes in our history books. I think George Carlin said something to this same effect that it really just depends on what side you are on to who the terrorists are and who the freedom fighters are.