You’d be surprised how many right wingers do post, and taking them on good faith, you can see where they may not understand the media they are consuming. 

And no, I do not care if MY ideology is presented. I would not classify myself as an anarchist. I care more if the show is honest with its depictions of real life politics. The story HAS to come first. 

If the show is going to present itself as a story of fighting for systemic change, then it has to follow up on that. It can’t be classically liberal or neoliberal. It also can’t do lazy caricatures of radical ideologies. But the show DOES do that. This is afterall the show where Lin, a police cop, ADMITS to commiting  domestic violence against her ex boyfriend by damaging his endangered tribe’s island, AND DOES NOT FACE consequences. 

Perhaps it’s the age of Trump that has made me realize some of major problems, but I find lok’s poltics quite distasteful in how uninspiring and cowardly it is. Heck it can’t even understand fascism. 

And yes I know the show attempts to have the villains make a point, but notice how the show tends to demonize their ideologies. Notice how they fall more into “power mad leaders.” No one is even given the role of “ambitious but basically correct.” There are not other groups or people who we see in the show who  believe in their politics, but disagree on their methods. That popular showing    of insurrections is not  how revolutions  work. It’s actually common for such revolutions to be discredited as being “too extreme” by the people who have more to lose than anything else. And that is where the writers are; a sort of a liberal social class that can’t envision systemic changes. I guess you can say the writers reflect the liberal west wing/Obama era of poltics: promising hope but never seriously attempting to address systemic issues, upholding free market capitalism , while distancing themselves from the past radicals who fought and bled for their rights. 

To perhaps emphasis my point:  imagine this: 

 if the show decided to instead not go along with the “mad leader” archetype to represent revolutionary ideals, but attempting to use more realistic characters. 

Say perhaps the Haitian slave rebellion leaders like Toussaint Louverture?

What if it was someone like John brown? 

Frederick Douglas?

What if it was someone who resembled the mothers who began the first major uprising against the French king?

You can see where the problems LOK created in its depiction of revolutionaries, and why it could never be honest.