When you realize that A Bug's Life was trying to tell you something important...

[1monster]

[antigop]

1. oh, perfect! Absolutely perfect! nt

[oregonjen]

2. Haven't seen the movie, but wow, yep, that's what's happening.

[Duckhunter935]

3. Good one

[felix_numinous]

4. K&R

[-none]

5. Golly gee...

I wonder who is on which side of the candidates running... Those that need to think about are most likely part of the problem.

[awoke_in_2003]

6. This is why they keep us

at each other's throats over social and racial issues. We are so busy fighting ourselves that we don't see who the real enemy is.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

8. Ignore the man behind the curtain. Also why TPTB *love* conspiracy theorists

The Powers That Be love conspiracy theories because they catch up a lot of otherwise intelligent people and get them to waste their time chasing will-o-wisps and fireflies and Rube Goldberg systems with too many moving parts (too many necessary conspirators and guardians watching over conspirators to keep them in line and uber-guardians to make sure that the guardians don't talk either).

[awoke_in_2003]

10. Yep. And if they slap the label "conspiracy theory"

on something, most Americans tune out. And truly, there is no need for CT- almost everything done is because of greed and anger. I subscribe to the Chris Tucker (from the Rush Hour movies) theory of crime investigation- follow the rich white guy.

[DianaForRussFeingold]

7. K&R Makes you think

Who's the little guy standing up to the grasshopper remind you of?!
"this scene is soooo cool" Very cool.

[antigop]

12. "Ideas are dangerous things." Precisely why they tried to marginalize Bernie. nt

[DianaForRussFeingold]

15. They sure do marginalize Bernie

He's in good company, Galileo, Howard Hughes, and especially Nikola Tesla, were marginalized.
Here's a story: The Story of Mouseland

"In this story the mice in the land elect cats into public office. When unhappy with the performance of the Black cats, they vote them out and elect white cats. When the white cats fail the mice. They vote some white and black cats to try and do a better job, calling it a "coalition". Then when that doesn't work, one mouse gets the notion, "why not elect a mouse into office?"
They call the mouse a bolshivek and lock him up. But... you can't lock up an idea. And in the case of Tommy Douglas, he was elected into office, founded the Canadian national health care system, and became known as the greatest Canadian of all time."

This non-animated version is pretty cool..

[retrowire]

9. And this is exactly why A Bugs Life is my favorite Pixar film. nt

[Nitram]

11. You're just now getting the point?

[1monster]

14. No. I only just now found this clip to share.

[knightmaar]

13. "They outnumber us One hundred to one."

Making them the One Percent.

Whacky.

[liberalnarb]

16. Keeping those Bernie supporters, I mean ants, in line.

Wow.

[FailureToCommunicate]

17. Good find!

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

18. Ordinary citizens shall...

... remain powerless right up to the day they finally wake up and realize they're not.