The leftist march to destroy everything good from our childhoods continues unabated. Liberals and their social justice cheerleaders have already ruined “Ghostbusters,” “The Muppets,” and “Sesame Street,” but now they’ve gone after one of America’s iconic superheroes, Captain America.
Not only has the new Captain America undergone an unnecessary multicultural makeover — he’s now Sam Wilson, the black superhero formerly known as Falcon — but he’s also experienced a political awakening. The new “Captain America: Sam Wilson #1,” released digitally on Wednesday, revolves around the Cap’s coming to the realization that bleeding heart liberalism is the way forward.
Oh, and his enemies in the issue, the Sons of the Serpent, are little more than thinly veiled stand-ins for Donald Trump, his immigration policy, and his supporters. There’s even a reference to a border wall, but more on that later.
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The new issue shows the new Captain America staring at the Capitol building while declaring, “I have a side. That’s right. I have opinions. Strongly held beliefs even.” The Cap continues, describing “the noise machine spreading intolerance and fear,” and wonders if he is “obligated to try” to “change some minds, do some good.”
So, what are those beliefs, one might ask? What sort of minds does the new Captain America wish to change? Why, it’s close-minded conservatives, of course!
One panel shows Captain America telling the public to call a special hotline should they “see injustice in (their) community,” and he convenes a press conference to “focus on trying to bring folks together.”
And yes, the new Captain America is black, left wing, and likes to use the word “folks” a lot. Remind you of anyone?
Now that Captain America is undergoing a personal transformation into Captain Democrat, his enemies have undergone a transformation into outrageous liberal caricatures of Republicans.
Now that Captain America is undergoing a personal transformation into Captain Democrat, his enemies have undergone a transformation into outrageous liberal caricatures of Republicans, complete with Southern accents, y’all. In this issue, the aforementioned Sons of the Serpent are basically an over-the-top, homicidal version of the Minuteman Project, the activist organization that performs citizen patrols of the Mexican border, with a leader who spouts Donald Trump-style soundbites about immigrants.
The issue finds the Sons of the Serpents harassing a group of presumably saint-like illegal immigrants who just want a better life for themselves.
“Please, whoever you are, we don’t want any trouble,” pleads the innocent migrant.
“I can see you have enough trouble with you already. Trouble and disease and crime weigh heavy on your backs,” replies the Supreme Serpent.
“Leave us alone,” cries another migrant, to which the Supreme Serpent responds, “We have tried! But until the mighty wall is built, you come here for employment that is rightfully ours! And if denied it, you seek welfare paid for by our tax dollars.”
Seriously, this is real dialogue in a real comic book published by Marvel Comics, not the DNC. And just in case anyone is unclear that the Sons of the Serpent are supposed to be a stand-ins for conservative Americans in general, just look at the following exchange between the Trump-like Supreme Serpent and Captain America, who of course shows up in time to save the poor illegal immigrants from the evil Sons of the Serpents.
Supreme Serpent: “Well, look who it is y’all! Captain Socialism is here to save the day!”
Captain America: “If you’re done threatening a bunch of unarmed folks, mostly women and children, with those things, I’d pack up the pickup and head home if I were you, gentlemen.”
Supreme Serpent: “Well, see, that is just a pernicious stereotype — we arrived in a minivan, sir. Do tell me — are you really so far ahead on appeasing terrorists and apologizing for this country’s greatness that you have the time to come down here and flout still more of our laws?”
This is just one part of a wider pattern of liberals using popular culture in order to push certain political messages.
Clearly, the folks over at Marvel are unfamiliar with the concept of subtlety. While this new Captain America may or may not be successful in brainwashing impressionable young children into thinking a specific brand of left liberalism is cool, it certainly will result in the increasing alienation of Marvel’s red state readership. This, of course, has been going on for quite some time, as Marvel has already bent backwards to please the social justice crowd by including gay and Muslim characters in their stories. This new issue of Captain America, however, jumps the PC shark with astonishing brazenness.
This is just one part of a wider pattern of liberals using popular culture to push certain political messages, something the left has done for quite sometime and with disconcerting effectiveness. Since at least the 1970s, American youth have been under constant exposure to this propaganda, and the results are really only becoming obvious today.
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The election of Barack Obama, the proliferation of far-left ideas regarding gender theory and speech control on college campuses, and even the mind-boggling popularity of Bernie Sanders, are all the results of a cultural shift that occurred during the past five decades. It would have been impossible without the inherently left-wing messages long espoused in films, television shows, music, and now, apparently, comic books.
The notion of politically correct comic books is bad enough, but the idea of preachy partisan comic books is insufferable. Comic books are meant to be a form of escape, vehicles to take people out of their everyday lives and launch them into a wonderful world of myth and imagination. Allegory of current events is one thing, but such blatant support for one political side is another thing entirely. Turning comic books into platforms to spread specific political messages that half the country disagrees with literally takes all the fun out of them.
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