The Sakler family of drug pushers don't want us to look up at how they just walked away with billions and not a single person in the family went to jail over the death of 600,000 Americans from opioids.
Republican secretaries of state don't want us to look up at how they've purged over 17 million people, more than 10 percent of all of America's active voters, off the voting rolls just between 2016 and 2018.
North Carolina's GOP doesn't want you looking up at how, immediately after five "conservatives" on the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act, they permanently closed 158 polling places in the 40 counties with the most African American voters just before the 2016 election, producing a 16 percent drop in the Black vote in that state.
Trump and his Trump-humping toadies in Congress don't want America to look up at the treason they incited their followers to commit on January 6th, invading the Capitol with Confederate flags and Christian fascist crosses while trying to assassinate Vice President Pence and Speaker Pelosi.
Giant "health insurance" banksters don't want seniors to look up at how they've already privatized over 40% of Medicare through the "Medicare Advantage" scam George W. Bush gifted them, increasing their profits by tens of billions.
Billionaires don't want Americans to look up at how they're paying less than 3% in income taxes while the rest of us foot the bill for the country.
Religious hustlers don't want us to look up at their mansions and private jets as they run ads for "prayer lines" on TV and push parishioners to vote for politicians who will help them keep their rich lifestyles going as they break the law with no taxes or oversight.
And, of course, the fossil fuel industry doesn't want us to look up at the remote but very real possibility that the global warming they are causing could free ancient methane trapped in permafrost and undersea clathrate beds and trigger a mass extinction event (as DiCaprio and I pointed out in this short video).
DiCaprio, Lawrence, McKay and Sirota's new Don't Look Up! movie is funny, entertaining, and sure to provoke useful conversations with friends and family.
It accomplishes this by cleverly satirizing a crisis turned into a disaster by the corrupt power of big money bribing government, amplified by the banality of the infotainment "news" culture Reagan gifted us when he destroyed the Fairness Doctrine as the Murdoch clan came to town.
If ever there was a time when we all need to look up, it's now!
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