Determined to over-throw the Constitution, and install a Popular Democracy (rule of the mob) in place of Law & Order, and to abolish basic individual rights.
Yeah.
Too bad the movie tried to turn him into a "hero" instead of the "enemy domestic" that he actually was. A man who desires to abolish the Bill of Rights is NOT a man who should be praised.
What are you talking about?
He didn't try to abolish the Constitution. . .
Did you even watch the movie?
Also the movie is based on a novel...
shareHe's speaking of the actual man the character's based on. History, not a movie.
shareI would say maybe American Mussolini. Hitler got a bad rap for his genocide thing, and thats mostly what people associate him with.
Stark in my opinion was pro-socialism in his ideas to bring socialized medicine and such things to severely economically weak Southern State, but I wouldn't go as far as to call him an American Hitler.(Also, Hitler was a Fascist-Socialist, meaning that he was more of a Mussolini Fascist than a Socialist. Hitlers ideas were more based in Pride, Nationalism, and the good of the State, than with benefit to society as a whole.)
The bottom line is that this Movie/Novel is trying to demonstrate how power corrupts even the most ideal of people. In the end though, Stark seriously modernized the Southern State(call it Alabama if you want), and even though he may have gotten a bit carried away, his general ideas were very popular to try and move the South forward. His main downfall was his honesty as demonstrated in the movie where he stands up and explains to the people how he has his eye on "his crooks" and that the other politicians don't take as much care in who they hire and put on the payroll.
Yours is one of the few posts concerning this movie that shows any true knwoledge of history, politics, and the abilty to use logic.
shareFunny to have an American supporting fascism with propaganda and disinformation as sophisticated and disgusting as anything Goebbels ever dreamed up. This was the story of a great American.
Mmm generaly im not this hard but... are you retard?
How can you think that. Clearly by far you must be ultra republican... I dont understand very much the politics on the US, becouse im from another country.
How can you feel hate for someone ho cares about the pour people?
You can just not agree on the economic politics, but you can not just say he is Hitler just becouse you dont like it.
What the guy did on the movie is to put a lot of tax on the oil companys for example and on some others companys that toch a lot of intrest of many powerfull people. So they say he was "violating the constitution".
If you asked that question you really don't have even a vague understanding of who Hitler was or any thing about this fictional character.
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A "benevolent dictatorship" is an efficient way to run a government but that's about it. People who benefited from Stark's (Long's) reign considered him a hero to the end. Stark WAS a hero when he first denounced corruption but he became as corrupt as the people he displaced. In the end the only thing heroic about him was the legacy of his public works, such as the hospital. I think the mostly rural setting also contributed to the idea that the average man wanted someone in power who sees things their own way and kicks butt even if he has to bend the rules past the breaking point. In other words the Constitution should only apply to "right thinking" people.
shareYou don't know what the f-ck Hitler did and what the f-ck fascism and Nazism are. You are a political illiterate and you need to just shut up until you've studied and learned. Don't talk about things you don't understand. It just makes you look like an idiot. Which, in all fairness, you probably are.
"The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor."
- Voltaire
Hero or enemy, he advocated the common man which made him extremely popular. This was the '30s, too. The time was right for him.
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