THE CORPORATE COUP D��TAT takes a complex political/historical theme and brings it to life. In the style of �13th�, �Manufacturing Consent�, �The Corporation�, and �All Governments Lie� it creates a powerful cinematic experience that explains how President Trump is the result of failed neoliberal globalist policies, and a �corporate coup d��tat� in which corporations and billionaires were able to gradually take control of the political process in the U.S. and elsewhere. In the words of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Chris Hedges: �Donald Trump is not an anomaly. He is the grotesque visage of a collapsed democracy. The creeping corporate coup d��tat that began 45 years ago is complete. It has destroyed the lives of tens of millions of Americans no longer able to find work that provides a living wage, cursed to live in chronic poverty.� Threaded through the film are the stories of the ultimate victims - working class and poor people in �sacrifice zones� like Camden, New Jersey and Youngstown, Ohio. Many working-class whites voted twice for Barack Obama, in �08 and �12, but in 2016 they felt abandoned by the elites of both parties, and voted for Donald Trump who promised he would be different. Featuring Chris Hedges, the main �voice� of the film as he visits Americans fighting for change and Canadian author John Ralston Saul, who warned prophetically in 1995: �We are now in the midst of a coup d��tat in slow motion. Democracy is weakening� corporatism is strengthening.�

Starring:

Enrico Caruso, Chris Hedges, John Ralston Saul

Genre:

Documentary, News