...about rightbloggers and Star Wars. If there's anything more obnoxious than conservatives, it's conservatives with a light-saber fetish. Wedgies all around, wingnerds!
Among the outtakes: Jonathan Witt of religious-right site The Stream. “Big-time Democratic donor J.J. Abrams and his team somehow managed to smuggle three conservative truths out of the liberal death star that is Hollywood and into The Force Awakens,” he claims. For one when (spoiler) Leia regrets sending her and Han’s kid off to Jedi school, this is a knock on liberals because “progressives have attacked the idea of male headship in the family”; also, liberals “have long promoted welfare policies that render fathers economically redundant.” So Leia received WIC assistance! Well, I warned you about the spoiler.
If you were wondering why Abrams the Democrat would promote such a POV, Witt explained that the film’s scriptwriters, Abrams and Lawrence Kasdan, are Jewish, and Lucas was raised Methodist (unlike everyone else in Hollywood, who were bred in atheist vats) so “maybe they absorbed the biblical stories of sin and redemption… Maybe they absorbed those old truths so thoroughly that they couldn’t help but work them into their movies.” I love the idea of Kasdan trying to make The Force Awakens into a plea for Single Payer, except G-d forced his pen to write Conservative Truths.
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