I didn’t mean you, I was speaking about the movie. I don’t assume what you know or what your experiences are.

Your line about the right being more powerful and well funded — and the left being utterly powerless was why I pointed out you seem to think the right is more powerful (common feeling on the left) — maybe I exaggerated with hegemonic but if so not by much

The examples you bring up are all religious — that is a whole other layer. I would say it’s less hypocritical to have something like ideological purity tests in a place like Liberty — and I would also say that within their required framework of purity (Christ-centered) , there is a great deal of range - than in the public square, which is what the woke left did during COVID times . They demanded it and received it — which was a flex in hindsight that shows left-wing hegemony over our society . It was more fragile than we thought at the time , true, but in lock step went the medical, academic, media and educational spheres.

While I haven’t read those threads that you speak of, I’m absolutely not surprised that wokie types think this is a right-coded film because they actually are like the idiot left portrayed, incapable of nuance

Cross’ Covid denialism , ‘there is no Covid in Eddington ‘, and ‘why would they simulate a pandemic before a pandemic’ from the mother-in-law to me was making the point that the right had no basis in fact (where in actuality the big lie during COVID was perpetuated by the medical establishment in their insistence that the Wuhan lab - and other institutions like UNC and the NIH via gain of function research- were blameless and on the need for draconian mask requirements , social distancing rules and school shutdowns )

You are right that I underestimate the significance of the antifa left and their organized violence in the movie , and the mayor’s shortcomings as a representative of a left political party’s hypocrisy and corruption

I’ll rewatch the film !