However, they are making the Republican Party out to be nothing more than a bunch of uneducated theocratic bent morons. I am afraid they are succeeding. :-(
For evidence of this, here's what someone posted at another board:
Now. I believe you can make a serious case for the conservative nature of ANY film that deals with science running amok -- the "there are things Man is better off not knowing" philosophy. It's an inherently ascientific, pro-ignorance position which is usually brushed aside by the sheer cheesiness of the film in question and the fact that (at least in films of the 50s and 60s) I believe 99.9% of filmmakers _did not intend_ active promotion of such a worldview -- Americans were frightened to death of atomic weapons, but did not generally decry the advancement of science for the good of humanity. Of course, that worldview has changed -- science is now looked upon as too expensive, too dangerous, too immoral to be allowed free or partially-free room to advance. As I said, this new backward attitude is rampant in genre literature -- the worst perpetrator is the hugely popular Michael Crichton, who just recently stepped up his anti-science position from underlying them (Jurassic Park, The Lost World, Swarm) to outright propagandistic harange (State of Fear). These books will all be translated into film at some point, and all will carry the anti-science (and hence, ultra conservative) political message.
And this wasn't at a science or political discussion board; it was on a film discussion board. This conservative=anti-science meme is spreading, and becoming ever more malignant as we speak. And the people helping to propagate it aren't liberals but so-called "conservatives" who define the movement solely on the basis of Biblical literalism, and wind up being held up as representative of a good 40-50% of the general population.