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On leftist folk hero Billy Jack

For whatever reason I decided to rent Billy Jack not actually knowing too much about it. The blurb on Amazon Prime reads “Half-breed ex-Green Beret Billy Jack is driven to action when a desert school is victimized by thugs. Using his fists and his feet, he unleashes justice in a fast-kicking frenzy that made him an instant folk hero.”

Of course, what that blurb leaves out is that the desert school is quite literally a hippie commune full of deformed leftist freaks and very attractive white women. In between blanket weaving, poetry slams, and improv they all talk about how evil the traditional, white townspeople are and how peace and love and “just following your passion, man,” would make the world a paradise.

Now, I knew somewhere in the back of my mind that this was liberal/hippie/boomer core. And seeing that it was made in 1971, I knew it was going to be a little libtarded. I did not expect it to be just straight up gay race marxist propaganda. I’m also watching this four days after a leftist terrorist assassinated Charlie Kirk so maybe it struck home a bit harder.

Anyways, this essay is not really about the movie’s politics, we are all well acquainted, having lived under the thumb of these types for the last ten years. What I’d like to discuss is what made it so effective. The left honestly kind of forgot how good it was at propaganda. Because they really don’t make them like this anymore. As a writer, it’s pretty interesting to reverse engineer a weapons grade mind virus.

The opening of the movie begins with a group of cowboys herding wild mustangs into a pen, and then getting ready to shoot them so that they can be sold to a dog food company for 6 cents a lb.