Just got back from it. My Joe Sixpack Republican cousins wanted to see it, so I went along.
It's funny, I think I was the only one who "got" the movie. The 16-year-old literally asked me to "translate" it for her, but please not to use any of the actual words that were in the movie. The college-age kid groaned that she would never see a movie like it again and it was like the movies they watch in her Government class. The parents were immediately onto what to have for dinner and had nothing to say about it at all.
To me, it answers the question, Why did Obama betray so many among his base?
Why are there so many diaries here saying, I'm gay, he betrayed me. I'm Green, he betrayed me. I'm a DREAMer, he betrayed me. I want card check, he betrayed me. I want to close Gitmo, he betrayed me. I want the rich to pay higher taxes, he betrayed me. I want single-payer healthcare, he betrayed me. I wanted transparency, he betrayed me.
The reason is, these piddly Democrat-Republican squabbles are not his concern.
According to D'Souza, Obama's aim is way beyond this two-party conflict that the rest of us Americans are locked in. Thanks largely to Obama's often squalid overseas upbringing and the education his parents and grandparents designed for him, he takes a much broader view of America as a colonialist thief of other nations' natural wealth. He has essentially projected the sins of Britain onto America. The British Raj, Churchill's suppression of the Mau-Mau Rebellion, are examples of the crimes he lays at America's feet. That's why he wants to level America by reducing its military power and individual Americans' standard of living.
D'Souza concludes from Obama's first term that he's just not that into us (Democrats). He used us (and a lot of independents and disgusted Republicans) to get himself into power, but he's got another agenda all his own that is well beyond our disagreements with Republicans over who pays what tax rate and whether teenage rape victims should be forced to become mothers.
Therefore he'll adopt progressive issues where they help him and not an inch further. For instance, when he saw some of his base slipping, he did finally evolve his own, deep, personal, individual view on gays marrying -- but he also flat-out said he's not going to put any energy into it as President.
We may agree with his agenda, we may not. It does overlap ours in some areas. And indeed, there are plenty of us who feel America should be taken down a peg for the good of the world. But Obama is not motivated by the same things we are. He's not at heart a Democrat, or a progressive, or a liberal, or a leftist. He's more of a sort of confused anti-colonialist.
That's the message I got. I half believe it.