Just one thing...Atticus Finch IS NOT REAL.
C’mon, you know that leftists cannot differentiate reality from illusion (or delusion as the case may be).
You're so right. But your words won't penetrate the minds of leftists. They live in an unreal world. They're furious with anyone who dares to question their absurd fantasies in which they, themselves, are saintly Atticus Finches ... even if they're never done a genuinely heroic thing in their own lives.
Conservatives, to them, are all knuckle-dragging racists, because that's how we're unfailingly portrayed in popular culture. An unintentionally funny example of this was the tv show, "I'll fly away." My liberal mother-in-law used to insist on watching this drivel at family get-togethers. It was a shameless rip-off of the "To Kill a Mockingbird" story ... complete with Atticus Finch-like lawyer played by Sam Waterston (a less handsome and slightly more modern version of Gregory Peck).
All the black folk in this tv series were saints, while all southern white folk were despicable characters (except of course for the lawyer-character played by Waterston, and the little circle of Caucasians who were close to him) .
I had to laugh at "I'll fly away" because it was so simple-minded. You would think it would insult viewers' intelligence -- including the intelligence of black viewers, because of the storyline's formulaic and patronizing "white liberal savior" theme.
But as this reviewer says of TKaM - my liberal mother-in-law adored it.
No, but Gregory Peck was real and the line between the character and the actor melded into one. It is easy to imagine Atticus as an old racist....not so easy to imagine an old, but handsome, Gregory Peck as a racist.