Michael Moore’s Battle Cry Sparks Rebellion From the Middle
Michael Moore Battle Cry Radicalizes the Middle
It wasn’t too many years ago that Michael Moore was booed at the Oscars by the “liberal elite” and the Right demonized Moore for every breath he took; everyone from the center to middle left kept their distance from the filmmaker. So last Saturday, when he gave his rousing speech to the tens of thousands of protesters in the rotunda of the state Capitol, it was shocking that his message was met with enthusiastic cheers by all of the protesters, many of whom were Republicans who voted for Scott Walker. Those Real Americans cheered Moore’s message about the class warfare being perpetrated on Americans.
While the Right tries to paint Moore as an agent of class war-fare, the truth is that his “manifesto against the class war the rich have been conducting on the American people for the past 30 years” stirred the previously stifled feelings of the middle. Moore spoke not just for union members and the economically vulnerable, but also for the white-collar Americans who played by the Republicans’
