Movies Are Liberal Propaganda, and That’s Why You Love Them (Commentary)

For some reason, the proponents of the boycott had only just figured out what the premise of “Star Wars” was and decided to pretend that “Rogue One” was granting new, shocking subtext to this saga which has a central conflict that can best be summed us as “leftist rebellion led by women vs racist fascists.”

Take “Selma,” the powerful Civil Rights film about the Martin Luther King, Jr-led march to Birmingham — a march which was contested at every turn by racist conservatives who were intent on maintaining their free-market race-based discriminations against black people.

Take “The Visitor,” the small-scale drama from the director of “Spotlight,” about the plight of a family of illegal immigrants from Syria and Senegal who face deportation, humanizing the exact sort of people who Donald Trump and his supporters are apparently so terrified of.

Take “Syriana,” the George Clooney film that lays the blame for radicalization of Islamic terrorists squarely at the feet of the U.S. and American corporations for their never-ending interference in Middle Eastern countries.

Uh, it’s not liberals who are madly in love with prisons and unconstitutional law enforcement tactics like stop and frisk.

Not to mention a certain horrifically overreaching executive order titled “Protecting the Nation from Terrorist Attacks by Foreign Nationals,” which sounds like something Hydra would be extremely into.

Take “Bridge of Spies,” Steven Spielberg’s love letter to civil liberties, due process and American ideals — ideals which, not coincidentally, are liberal.

[...] hey, what do I know? I’m just going by what everybody agrees are American ideals — you know, the great Melting Pot, everybody’s created equal and entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, stuff like that.

With movies, we generally agree on those principles, like how in Disney’s sports drama “Remember the Titans,” about desegregation in a Virginia high school, we all get excited when the white people stop being racist.

Age of Extinction, by the way, is about corporate greed run amok and the government, in its racist quest to genocide all the Transformers, trying to kill a self-employed inventor and his daughter.