I’ve known people who have read Atlas Shrugged and 1984, and took them as validation of hard left libertarianism, essentially anarcho-communism, before. Some will only see what they want to see in any given literary or cinematic work.
In all my days of moving in those circles, I never could quite grasp how anyone ever though a totalitarian government would be anything but ... well, totalitarian? Some magical benevolence befalls the land, so they can get bombed and have sex to their juvenile heart’s content, while everything they’d ever want or need just materializes for free?
Huh?
Given all that, I have no doubt that this trilogy as described will also be misconstrued in the same twisted manner.
As many have pointed out here, modern liberalism is a form of mental disease.
It requires an ability to `doublethink’ as in 1984: Winston Smith’s torturer OBrien was as mad as a hatter, but he had his hand on the rheostat.
How do you explain massive further spending to address a huge deficit (spending problem)? Or setting about to bring peace to the middle east—after winning the Nobel Peace prize, having been in office ten days—by starting more wars and encouraging insurrections?
“Hope and change” and freedom is slavery. They never learned critical thinking from their `cool’ professors and now they’re as crazy as s***-house rats.
You can find political cant everywhere, but `ignorance is freedom’ to sheep like left-wing idealogues: They will read somewhere a fatuous explanation that Katniss is actually a Che-like freedom fighter and will eat that with a spoon.