While "They Live" is a brilliant not-so-conservative rightwing call for anarchist revolution, John Carpenter's Escape from New York strikes me as pure idiotic ideology-driven "gun propaganda" drivel. Beware a black mayor of New York! Save British colonial idealism! It also promotes white male working class vigilantism and fear-based consumption to prevent urban decay. So nothing changes. It just keeps getting a new lacquered skin to sell the illusion of a democratic state working against classism and classicism.

But I believe Carpenter is a leftwing democrat. He's just being loyal to the pure roots of Western democracy, especially in America's not so young history. The rightwing has gone racist a lot in the last century. But only to match the violent racism that built the democratic parties in America, namely that of the British E.U..

So I'm not even picky for leftwing films or against rightwing films. But the left has always been too moderate and the right has always been too militant, clan-based, competitive, sexist & racist, dependent to capital and material possessions. Hollywood is steeped in a film language and cultural history that is so limited and censored in scope. Modernity and only the most compromised and consumerist (commercial) versions of postmodernist thought are allowed to be discussed socially by the design of a ruling class.

And there's no need to fear the competition of any corporation of private investors and legal or illegal funds to express monopoly on all industry. They may rule certain sectors at certain times, but unless they build their own private army or gain a permanent hold of government, these "deep state" conspirators can pull the wool over our eyes but can never out-gun the government or the people. Because SOME of the writers and signers of the Constitution were great and brilliant people. They devised parchment to prevent the destruction of the people, the state, their business and their privacy.

Now we're always under siege of a disastrous destruction of that safety, but that document provided enough laws to serve justice and protect peace. The world is facing an insurrection of powerful criminals who exist in shadows but they will always fall to America and the world because America puts God first, even if it was once based on a racist, sexist, mythological revisionist historian-perverted version of "God".

Should a small group of elitists run everything? Should democracy be kept a lie, a capitalist video game that only serves the leaders of state? Can they be trusted to be fair and right the wrongs of history's leaders? Who should run the next government? And how do we make sure they are not puppets of more powerful republicans who seek to destroy democracy?