What the movie would tell us is that America is comprised of these communities, and in these communities, you know, because they're not contaminated by the corrupting influence of money and power from Washington, people more or less get along and they all agree on, you know, what the issues are.

But when these outside foreign influences come in, they create these terms like Republican and Democrat, and they use things like, you know, micro-targeted campaign software or whatever it is that the Tofer Grace character is using that's able to isolate.

Well, this street has single women on it.

This street has, you know, this demographic,

that demographic. And these are the things that end up dividing these perfect organisms.

That gives rise to the one, I think, good joke in the whole film, which is that the micro-targets

find an unusually large group of single women living in one area. So they decide, oh,

okay, we're going to send pamphlets to that area talking about birth control and how the government's

going to provide birth control under this candidate. And then they find out that it's actually

a group of Catholic nuns, which is like, congratulations. That is one good joke, which we have now

spoiled here. It is funny, but it also goes to show that there are divisions in this town. It's not all Steve Carell's fault. Well, and furthermore, Will, I agree with you that that's what the film is trying to do, and that is consistent with John Stewart's worldview. And yet, on the, in the sequence where they have voting day even though we know by

we're soon to find out that the election is basically like a sciop so the citizens in the town

are also being very misled by the local elites who are putting on the sham the sham election

but then when you see the like outside of the election booths like the polling station

We see this cross-section this is the most politics what a concept part of the movie this was like that awful Robert Downey Jr thing we saw the last party

Where there's just the sequence of like ah, it's a cross-section of America because at the end of the day it all comes down to this and then we see like

Antifa the local Black Lives Matter chapter the proud boys like we see like so the

coal lobby is there and so somehow this town which we we're beaten over the head with

the fact that the town only has 5,000 people in it somehow it's also able to reflect

every actual meaningful political division in America.

So again, this is one of those things where the film sort of has a somewhat well-intention

and possibly intriguing premise, but sort of undoes it by being so convoluted.

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