Posted on 11/30/2016 5:27:21 PM PST by Hojczyk
It wasn't too long ago that the novel The Hunger Games was all the rage, along with its bestselling sequels, films based on the novels, etc. As one might expect, left and right showed up on television and in op-ed pages with voluminous commentary about how Suzanne Collins's tales were either about the soul-crushing cruelty of big government, or big business's exploitation of the little guy. Readers can imagine which side of the debate right and left were on. The corrupt and hateful capital city in the novel was the epicenter of government or capitalism depending on one's ideology.
The American left has long persisted with the fiction that Collins's Capitol wasn't the home city of cruel political types living well on the backs of others, but a recent New York Times article unwittingly acknowledged what members of the right have known all along. Collins's Capitol is clearly a metaphor for Washington, D.C., along with other shimmering capital cities made that way thanks to the productive pursuits of non-government workers in the real economy, and who generally don't live near politicians.
Indeed, in an article titled "Newly Vibrant Washington Fears Trump's Effect on Its Culture," Times writer Jason Horowitz breathily described what a nice and shiny city formerly run down Washington, D.C. has become during Barack Obama's presidency; the Obama era one generally not confused with the Reagan/Clinton boom period that ended the 20th century. Yet while the broad U.S. economy muddled along during Obama's presidency, Washington, D.C. became rather fancy.
Suzanne Collins's novels were either unwittingly or on purpose about the growth of the capital city at the expense of everyone else. Here's hoping Washington, D.C. becomes quite a bit less vibrant under President Trump. It will be a signal that Trump and Congress have done their jobs.
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Of course, they couldn’t make that connection as long as their boy was in the Oval.
Drain the swamp.
The Hunger Games is something I use when I’m explaining the need for the Electoral College to liberals. Surprisingly, most of them get it afterwards.
Drain it, and fill it in. Its the only way to be sure.
The movie had many roles for clueless media. Our version is preparing its homeless crisis stories to air January 21, 2017.
Like many leftists, her views of conservatives are uninformed, and so she writes about progressive caricatures of conservatives and projects onto conservatives progressive fantasies. But it just doesn't work as a progressive story. It only works as a conservative story. I have defended the series here, and others as well as a very good conservative story.
Bump.
I find City of Ember the same.
Sutherland’s last laugh said it all and made enduring watching all that worth it. Yes - it was allegory.
Agreed.
The first was a man; the second a woman.
Coincidence?
Ha - me too!
And "torn-apart immigrant families" stories.
And "transgender youngsters driven to suicide" stories
And "innocent Muslims brutalized" stories
And "children coming home from school crying because Donald Trump stole their lunch money" stories
And ...
A number of references to the capitol city as the capitol of a Roman Empire.
And it was clearly D.C.
>I have defended the series here, and others as well as a very good conservative story.<
Cool, my daughter and wife have been wanting to watch it but I hadn’t looked into what it was all about. Guess we’ll have to check it out.
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