I always find this sort of thing amusing: If you're going to use film as a vehicle to list your grievances and make an intellectual argument for or against something, you had better know how to construct and make a film really well. Otherwise, maybe just write a paper for your community college professor?

Seriously, if you don't know how to use film as a language and full understand filmmaking in general, then you shouldn't do this sort of thing.

When you're going to make a "documentary" like this, you really need to know how to academically lay out your argument while showing things onscreen that simply illustrate your more complicated point. You also want to be able to freely and fairly examine as many sides to your argument in case there are gaping holes in it, etc. (I strongly recommend doing that last one!)

This film sure could use another year or two back in film school just to get back to understanding some basics.

Despite what this was supposed to be about, it was assembled so poorly that it came across as laughable and juvenile. If you have a product to sell, or an idea, you gotta come at me with your best. This film did nothing to woo me and that is a terrible mistake in this genre.

There's enough of this kind of thing on YouTube and Facebook these days. But not to this director. No, he had to turn his own political brainwashing into some sort of hour+ long rant without ever presenting source citation much less an explanation from the other side.

The problem is too many people are susceptible to garbage already-debunked lies and faulty logic like this now.

I mean, anyone who thinks Obama was a communist..er, excuse me, Communist (proper noun since that's what the filmmaker seems to think) should just Google "Obama CIA covertaction" and get back to us.

Even during the McCarthy era when actual communists and progressives were being arrested, blacklisted, blackballed and having their careers ruined, this film would have been seen as a third grader's attempt to regurgitate a combination of HUAC broadcasts and the ramblings of a rabidly anti-commie dad at the dinner table.

The number of lies is so immense that it'd be impossible to get through a fraction of them here, so you have been warned. Want a better way to spend the time than watching this hot pile of steaming trash? Pick up a US history book or read up on McCarthyism.

Joel Gilbert has hand-crafted a delightful and sobering piece of work. Using the metaphors from The Wizard of Oz, he illustrates, through historical fact, personal interviews with citizens and non-citizens, and experts, the presence of socialism in the USA and its ill effects. He also uses President Obama's biographical details and own words to bolster his case. Some of the quotes from the Obamas surprised me; I'd no idea he had spoken in words and phrases that are communist talking points. Aspects of this film, especially the use of interviews, are quite clever. The animation appears purposefully hokey. Refreshingly, Mr. Gilbert, although tackling a very weighty subject, does not take himself too seriously. I was left wondering at several points why I'd never seen these types of interviews and the places of desolation in the news before, or had Obama's words put into a more meaningful context. This film definitely provided food for thought and was enjoyable as well, as I continue to seek to educate myself on the real state of politics in the USA.