Preppers should love Katniss because she makes her own bow+arrows, hunts, and has basic wilderness survival skills.
She is oppressed by two different governments who are both willing to kill her and at various times arrest her.
She is essentially a rebel by default, and her first kills are more due to luck+accidents. She isn’t portrayed as being perfect. Some of her arrow shots miss. She can’t protect Rue. She can’t save her sister.
She only lived at the end of the first book because she identified a poisonous wild plant and was willing to die rather than kill her boyfriend.
Conservatives should appreciate that Katniss is stoic, not wordy.
Hollywood has lots of failed “strong females” because the failures all talk too much to be liked by the audience.
TV shows with women as the hero (ok heroine) tend to boil down to the “strong female” saying ridiculously tough things, loudly, with the bad guy backing down or even switching allegiances due to the speech at the pivotal crisis moment of each story.
That’s what isn’t believable, and it fails female lead after lead.
Katniss is pretty, but she merely accepts high fashion instead of seeking it out...which contrasts her to the Capitol’s elite women.
She breaks rules such as no poaching, crosses electric fenced boundaries, knows her plants, and has reasonable skills with her bow.
Faced with being forced to fight to survive in order to get her family through another day, she man’s up. She admits to her boyfriend that she’s willing to be fake to win audience support because that means an improved chance of survival in the arena.
Her depth of character is *there*, it just isn’t spelled out for the reader.
Since you're going to accuse me of being incapable of subtlety, I'll return the favor by accusing you of erroneously imparting writing talent that Suzanne Collins doesn't have.
We must agree to disagree. There is no there there. Not even a little bit.