[Bratch]

The Democrats might not be headed there literally, but they sure want to go in the same general direction.

[Huskrrrr]

“An all-controlling Big Government that forces unity, prosperity; it’s government that calls on you to sacrifice for the greater good....”

....of the government

[cripplecreek]

They seem headed toward more of a Harrison Bergeron future where everyone is finally equal and everyone is worse.

[Cringing Negativism Network]

What is the conservative endgame?

I don’t see us, currently advancing the interests of America.

Just saying. We are currently it seems, building up China.

[Caipirabob]

“An all-controlling Big Government that forces unity, prosperity; it’s government that calls on you to sacrifice for the greater good....”

And tastes just like chicken!

[RKBA Democrat]

“I am not suggesting that today’s Democrat Party will lead us literally to the society depicted in the Hunger Games series....”

Oh, but I am. Together with their eager collaborators in the gop wing of the uniparty. Capitol looms large in our future.

It’s time for a divorce.

[Steely Tom]

My daughter is heavily into The Hunger Games.

When I watch it with her, I sometimes think that they are trying to depict a future in which liberalism gets everything it wants.

[pieceofthepuzzle]

Is that map supposed to reflect rising sea levels and inundation of coastlines?

[Vince Ferrer]

I am glad some other conservatives are noticing this book/movie series. It was written by a liberal against Bush, but the tyranny fits Obama so much better. It has powerful symbols that allows young people to understand what is happening today in the US. I wish conservatives would take the time to understand this series to be able to speak to young people.

President Snow's Panem Address - "Together as One"

Donald Sutherland plays the president of a country which has a capital that is rich, and a countryside exploited by the capital, exaggerated but not unlike the US.

[mjp]

it’s government that calls on you to sacrifice for the greater good.

"It is thus necessary that the individual should finally come to realize that his own ego is of no importance in comparison with the existence of his nation; that the position of the individual ego is conditioned solely by the interests of the nation as a whole...that above all the unity of a nation's spirit and will are worth far more than the freedom of the spirit and will of an individual..."

Adolf Hitler

[GeronL]

The author should read up on North Korea