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are the New Founding Fathers left or right wing?

posted 10 years ago by tommix42
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what do you guys think? Clearly, they would NOT be very pleasant people. I think most of us would agree that these hypothetical New Founding Fathers would be maniacs. But, would you guess that they are right wing maniacs, or left wing maniacs?

The people on the news keep saying "blessed be" the NFF (new founding fathers), and just the word "blessed" makes me think maybe the writers of the screenplay for this movie want us to think that this crazy new USA is supposed to be Christian somehow, although clearly not a form of Christianity that any of my friends would support. Some people would argue that this implies that the NFF might be right wing, although I don't really think that would necessarily be true.

But, the way they talk about the society sounds sort of like a crazy version of (arguably) left wing social science, mixed with demented pop psychology.

I am going to have to watch this again and think about this stuff more. Does anyone here have any theories about this??

coming back to edit: by the way, I guess I'm trying to figure out what the writers of the movie intended for us to think. I don't think that's necessarily the same thing as agreeing with what might be their basic assumptions, like maybe thinking that Christians would be right wing. Also, it is certainly possible that the writers just didn't think this stuff through very carefully, or they meant for us to think tha the NFF were just CRAZY, and had a philosophy comprised of a mixture of right and left wing crazy ideas.

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[–] lynniepinnie22 9 years ago

far right. The poor, the dispossessed, the sick cannot afford to protect themselves. Therefore, the purge favours the wealthy, who CAN afford to arm themselves. It is a way of getting rid of the people who cost the government money, even though it is probably the government's fault they are homeless in the first place

[–] tommix42 9 years ago

I agree with you, this is definitely the world they were portraying. The only thing that made me wonder if maybe there had been some left wing forces involved was the way they talked on TV and the radio. Some of the rhetoric sounded sort of like left wing social science, or sometimes even something Wiccan. Don't they say "Blessed be?" Well, whatever, even if it was some kind of coalition government, clearly the end product was extremely right wing.

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