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Great. I agree with that, also. I'm going to look up that research.
There's a terrible show in Australia called "Q&A" - it's a sort of political/current affairs talk show with guests. I saw an episode where the host/moderator got the liberal and conservative to try to explain each others' positions. It went just as your comment above would have had it. The conservative perfectly understood and repeated back the liberal's point exactly correctly. Then the liberal had her go. She could not articulate the conservative's viewpoint at all. Not even close. She had not one single clue, understanding or appreciation of the conservative woman's argument. The host cut that off and never did it again, being a typical left-leaning media production.
My contention has always been that liberals simply cannot understand and do not hear any viewpoint other than the one in their own bubble. They just have a book of liberal rules they have to follow, which they do without question, pretty much as an article of faith. They have a picture of what conservatives are, which is stupid and evil, and they don't have the mental or phycological tools to circumvent that belief.
Yes, good point. I thought some smart person would raise this, and you have. Just before Swank's character dies she asks Crystal if she got the right Crystal and Crystal replies "No, ma'am, you did not". So yes, I agree it is not certain Crystal is a Rep. I don't remember the part where she implied she hadn't abducted the wrong person - what part was that?
It's true that I want Crystal to be a Rep. I'm just leaning on the deep southern accent and the military background to hold up my hopes.
Pretty much all the mainstream comedy and all the media we see and hear these days (except on Fox) is mocking conservatives. When I say "pro-conservative" I really mean that I enjoy seeing something in the mainstream that puts the boot into crazy liberal behaviour and beliefs, because we are literally surrounded by that nonsense and no-one ever calls it out, except conservatives in their own bubble.
To pick up on another of your points, if you read Lindelof talking about this film, he's very balanced, so maybe a good take away from this film is that not all liberals are this caricature and many of them do think all the wokeness, political correctness and cancelling etc is bullsh*t and worthy of mockery. It's a pity I don't know many liberals like that. I have lots of liberal friends, but they pretty much all are fully subscribed to the liberal book of rules/beliefs. However, on the other hand, I don't know one single white supremacist, nazi una-bomber type.
Only one side is depicted as insane in this movie, which is accurate.