This extremely dramatic video is a commercial promoting the Tea Party movement:
Most of the video criticises Obama; however it seems to go further than this, they demonise him. This is done through the loud, heavy, dramatic music and shots of him looking powerful and threatening. At first the video expresses many people’s view: that Obama hasn’t changed anything or lived up to any of his promises, it later lists all the things he’s done which have ruined America. The video even blames the audience for voting him in and later they describe how we were brainwashed (as it seems to be shown in the video) by CNN, abc, NBC etc; this further preys on the idea that Obama deceived America. One of the most interesting parts of the video, in my opinion, was the shots of Democrats laughing. This could be to show that they have fooled us and now they’re all powerful and they can do whatever they want; this reinforces the idea that the government are too big, powerful and controlling. The video clearly shows how much the Tea Party is against progressivism, it even suggests that he is a socialist; this is shown alongside an image of the Constitution burning, this is a very powerful image for Tea Partiers because they worship the Constitution. In general they seem to depict Obama as a tyrant.
It is clear that the Tea Party use images of the past to evoke voters. In this video there are people dressed up as revolutionaries, famous monuments, and pictures of the Forefathers. They long to go back to a time when America was great, or at least they think was great however it has been romanticised and is just an ideology. Liberty, it seems, is what people think makes America special (for example the right to own a gun), the many people protesting and waving the flag in the video shows that they still believe America is/should be exceptional. The video shows that they want to go back to a time where there was more freedom. The fact that they are looking to the past shows that they are worried about the future of America; this is evident by the way they present Obama and his government.
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