Liberal or Conservative?
It is to laugh ... Katniss Everdeen is a 16 year old Sarah Palin. She shoots squirrels and rabbits through the eye with a bow and arrow and guts them in a couple minutes.
Most of the districts, including her District 12, just want to be left alone by an intrusive, tyrannical central government. The citizenry of the `Capitol’ is made up of pampered, affected/effete, barbarous modern Romans.
The Capitol, led by President Snow (Donald Sutherland who should be great in this role) requires that each district provide two `Tributes’—young people between the ages of 12 and 18—by lottery for the Games at which they fight to the death as punishment for defying the central authority 75 years earlier.
Most of the districts are extremely oppressed—severely disciplined for minor transgressions, subject to execution for possessing weapons or `poaching,’ even though many in District 12 are starving.
If the left is trying to say that the `Hunger Games’ is a parable for their cause (say, for the fine young Occupy brats) that’s simply risible. Poor people in this country sell food stamps for liquor and tobacco; there are no `hollow days’ for Obama’s 30%.
Finally, Katniss and her boyfriend Gale are survivalists, preppers and bow-strung `gun nuts.’ Her friend Peeta is a hard working baker and has courage, humor and fidelity, so it would be just as impossible for him to kowtow to a dictatorial central authority, to the evil President Snow. They would eat Occupy New York or anyone who showed up saying, “We’re from the Capitol and we’re here to help you.”
I’ve known people who have read Atlas Shrugged and 1984, and took them as validation of hard left libertarianism, essentially anarcho-communism, before. Some will only see what they want to see in any given literary or cinematic work.
In all my days of moving in those circles, I never could quite grasp how anyone ever though a totalitarian government would be anything but ... well, totalitarian? Some magical benevolence befalls the land, so they can get bombed and have sex to their juvenile heart’s content, while everything they’d ever want or need just materializes for free?
Huh?
Given all that, I have no doubt that this trilogy as described will also be misconstrued in the same twisted manner.
I’m reading book same time as just started SHTF prepped stuff
They sound like written by same person
The hinting etc is very Bosnia
Only liberal insanity could explain thinking Hunger Games is anything but anti leftist totalitarian.
re: Katniss and her boyfriend Gale are survivalists, preppers and bow-strung `gun nuts.’ Her friend Peeta is a hard working baker and has courage, humor and fidelity,
Good points! How left-wingers could even attempt to claim the Hunger Games as “their own” defies logic. Of course, just about everything Liberals believe defies logic. So, I guess it is not so surprising afterall.