[oneoff786]

I felt this movie was truly awful. Vacillating between a comedy and a serious movie. As a leftist I felt offended at the leftist pandering and idiotic portrayal of conservatives in the film. It felt like a dangerously left populist film cheering on the decline of public trust. Similar to how the kingsmen did so for right populism.

This film really made me feel apathetic to US cultural direction. Not because of the portrayal of political incompetence. But for the eagerness and shamelessness of pretending that the only good smart folks are the little people on the left and that everyone else is comic book evil in a mostly serious film, or at least, a film that felt like it was trying to have a serious point.

Anti science and intellectualism in the US is a problem but Christ this movie was just as bad in the opposite direction.

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> I felt this movie was truly awful. Vacillating between a comedy and a serious movie. As a leftist I felt offended at the leftist pandering and idiotic portrayal of conservatives in the film.

They were more of a blend of left and right than you might appreciate. The president's smoking habit was a clear reference to Barack Obama, and all of the photographs of her with celebrities was a reference to Hillary Clinton. Unqualified children working as advisors was a reference to Donald Trump.

I would argue that what you see in the characters is more of a reflection of your political leanings.

[oneoff786]

I agree with that on the presidential piece. Which is why I say left populist.

It’s anti political elite. Anti business elite. Anti American right.

It’s not pro Democrat. Much as the Kingsmen wasn’t pro Republican.

The Fox News equivalent, idiot military man shooting at the moon, and conspiracy theory culture were all “liberal” pandering though.