President Bush had the influence on the people that you are either "With us or against us" and there was no in-between. This was definitely even more so after the 9/11 took place, when the birth of Islamaphobia took place. Bush made the people feel that if you weren't voting for him, a true born American, fighting for his country then you were seen as supporting terrorists. He was the kind of man that made his opposition out to be "evil" just to make himself look like the good guy, this was through the use of his words, calling America "home" and suggesting that "they'll take our children" when speaking of terrorists, simply mind washing Americans and whipping them in to vote for him.
However it's not the point of Bush's Presidency, it's the fact he criminalised such a horrific event and used 9/11 as a propaganda. Bush's patriotism was nothing but a myth, and his idea of the only thing to solve the problem is by using guns and violence to sort it out, which in reality is completely not the right answer.Also Dixie Chicks music was Boycotted due to the lead singer Natalie Maines told the audience during a London Concert
"We don't want this war, this violence, and we're ashamed that the President of the United States (George W. Bush) is from Texas"
This was on the 10th of March 2003, 9 days before the 2003 Invasion of Iraq. The band was denounced by talk-show conservatives,while their albums were discarded in public protest.
Bush is a powerful person, he always plays for rural due to his background and he makes himself relatable and comes across as masculine. As a man from Texas and coming from a well known family for their richness and rural background, he had to keep up the masculine image.
The Devil's Reject (2005)
The Devil's reject is a Rob Zombie film based in a rural landscape. The characters in the film are a family of Rednecks/Bluegrass, similar to the Bush family, and they are completely crazy, murderers who have no moral compass. The montage makes you give empathy with the victims. Also like I mentioned previously it is a post 9/11 horror, meaning there are various images throughout the film relevant and related to the 9/11 event, such as news clippings of the victims in the film, which was a common factor for many of the victims family's and just worldwide after 9/11 occurred.It was scenes like this that are continuously recycled because of their relevance and connection people have with them.The music throughout the film makes you feel sorry for the monster and it is even seen that their enemies (the law) were just as sinister and backwards, because of such a diseased and polluted region.However this film shows us that even the law is corrupt and just as twisted as the enemies, which Bush called "Evil" and "against" his ways, yet there are conspiracy theories that Bush was involved and knew about 9/11 before it happened, however we will never find out the truth.
Wrong Turn is where Civilised versus Uncivilised. It was based in a barbaric land with poor economy, and the films storyline was based on an economic metaphor.
Our infatuation with misrepresented "monsters" is in everything we are watching now, such as true blood, where they're called the "fang bangers".These represent how trauma is left in our culture, it plays with our perception of the family and makes us feel empathy with the monsters like in the Devil's Reject. They are Demonised in the film but the final scene has the Lynrd Skynrd - Free Bird sound track with the lyrics "bird that cannot change" representing how these monsters have been born like this will never change for anything. Here is the final scene showing this.
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