I was in a deep, depressed daze for weeks after I watched it. And I won't watch it again. If I want shit that depressing, I can always turn on the news.

You're right, it doesn't seem like a comedy at all now.

that makes my head hurt

thanks for the clarification

have watched it several times since and given copies to many people

It was a mockumentary that has become a prescient docudrama

and I got a really bad feeling about it - "My god, that's where we're headed!"

and it was a prescient warning.

However, the people weren't evil, they were stupid, but not malicious.

The current crop of idiots are also mean, filled with malice.

shithole and the Republican Party are dumber coupled with so much hatred.

Amurikka is such a disappointment. 'Muricans even more so.

Link to Idiocracy streaming on Internet Archive

https://archive.org/details/Idiocracy_201507

The parallels between the rise of Hitler and Trump is truly amazing. Frightening really.

I think it was a teaser, because the reality is much, much worse. The documentary of Trump's rise and fall in the presidency will go beyond reason and understanding. For some, it will be a reminder that the US was never immune from the same social dynamics that took Germany down. And worse, we will need to find a way to live alongside of racists who will begin to gaslight us once they realize their reign of terror is over.

It's an absurd movie that in a lot of ways describes our current reality.

Was actually more cogent and sensible than tRump's. At least they wanted to hear what the smart guy had to say.

And you aren’t kidding about the similarities.

https://youtube.com/shorts/oQZh4atWpLg?si=jYM1XkIdis5JSmSp

Not long after renting it that it was a documentary cleverly disguised as a comedy. I tried watching not long ago again but now it hits like Saving Private Ryan did my grandfather.

Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho in 2028...

When it was first released, my 25 year old daughter told us about. At that time, we thought we were heading in that direction. Since the 2016 election, we worried it would come true. Now, 10 years later, it is true. The pictures of the White House side by side, says it all. (Someone has already posted that meme. )

"It has the electrolytes that plants crave." I keep expecting to hear that.

He was involved in the WWF/WWE for a while, but he was was never remotely a wrestler.
https://www.wwe.com/superstars/donald-trump

Specifically, all the "behind closed doors" stuff.

Idiocracy is FULL of technology that the people depicted in the film couldn't have made in a million years - electric cars the police can pull over by remotely disabling their batteries, the Carl's Jr vending machine with a built-in self defense mechanism, the light rail system at Costco, the big-screen TVs, the animated billboard, all the ultra-processed foods people eat, the barcode tattoo machine and the diagnostic machine at the hospital are just the ones I can think of. Oh yeah, and also the vehicles used in Monday Night Rehabilitation. SOMEONE is behind the scenes creating these things. Plus, SOMEONE had to invent Brawndo and make the decision to buy several government agencies so they could act free of controls.

The same thing is happening in our government. A series of right wing think tanks and hostile foreign governments are telling Trump and his GOP minions what to do.

President Camacho was dumb but he tried to figure out how he could make things right. With this lot, cruelty is among the GOALS.

Loved the movie, still have a Brawndo coffee mug (somebody disappeared my Antifa mug -- maybe a Trumper in my family -- but I'll get another). The movie extrapolates current trends to their ridiculous end, and nuance and complexity are of course gone. I think there's too much emphasis on selective breeding for low IQ (actually, IQ has been increasing in recent years, a well established though almost unbelievable trend) and not enough emphasis on economic structures as determinative. But it's great entertainment for what it is.

the "Time Macheen" amusement park ride part that goes through the allies defeating the Nazis and how "the UN un-Nazied the world". That's just a strange thing to put in a movie about evolution in reverse.