People love to watch movies, people love to use social media, people hate talking politics. What do you get when you combine all three of these things together. Your Facebook friends trying to convince you to sway to their political ideology. I've seen many people post things along the lines of "You have to watch this youtube video, it will change your opinion of Trump" "Don't trust Hillary, just watch this video and you'll see what I mean." Or "I can't stand Trump and just look at this video to see why." These are all comments in one form or another that I've seen across multiple social media sites. It seems like 2016 is the year of social media and politics, even more so than 2012.
When it comes to actual film though, not just youtube videos. There are very few political activists who like to use film as a medium to sway people. Michael Moore is a very well known political activist who tries to approach his material as unbiased as possible. However, his outcome is almost always biased towards favoring a liberal leftist point of view. Similarly, Dinesh D'Souza uses his documentaries to try and approach politics as unbiased as possible but ends up biasing his films more towards the conservative right.
These two documentary directors are polar opposites of each other. Yet, when you look at the critics ratings for both sides you see a clear winner. It's no secret that Hollywood and the majority of critics favor the leftist ideology just based on these two individual's work. What matters more though is the outcome of the election and if we were to base our winner purely off of the popularity of Facebook, Trump would win. If we were to announce the winner based purely off of youtube then it would be a close tie, and finally off of the films about them, Trump would win. Luckily, it's not as easy as just watching a few videos and choosing the next president based off of how good the other side demonized the other. Though some people might argue, that it is that easy and in the end all that matters is the electoral college.
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