If Michael Moore had arrived on the film scene as a conservative Republican activist in 1989, he might be heralded by Fox News today as a major American hero, and he might even be able to get a fair review in the so-called "liberal" New York Times. Unfortunately for him and his message, he started making movies during the late 1980s, when the presidencies of Republicans Ronald Reagan and then George Herbert Walker Bush made them the target of his outsourcing ire. Moore is also pretty good at establishing a theme for his story at the outset, although I think he falls short of driving home the point that capitalism and democracy are definitely NOT the same thing, which really is part of the problem we have even trying to have an intelligent conversation today on blog comments or TV. Moore opens with surveillance shots of people robbing banks, then cuts to clips of an educational flick making the comparison to the rise and fall of the Roman Empire with our own rise and demise, with Dick Cheney cleverly as the emperor, not Bush. Some of the best stories in the film with the most potential power to educate and excite an audience to rise up and do something involve real-life stories of families evicted from their homes.