{"id":1759,"date":"2016-12-28T12:55:35","date_gmt":"2016-12-28T18:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/markmeckler\/?p=1759"},"modified":"2016-12-28T12:55:35","modified_gmt":"2016-12-28T18:55:35","slug":"captain-america-civil-war-film-celebrates-self-governance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markmeckler\/2016\/12\/captain-america-civil-war-film-celebrates-self-governance\/","title":{"rendered":"“Captain America: Civil War” – a film that celebrates self-governance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

<\/iframe><\/p>\n2016\u2019s highest grossing film drove liberals nuts. Here\u2019s why, <a href=\"http:\/\/missliberty.com\/captain-america-civil-war-2016\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">according to Miss Liberty<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\u2026 in the course of the Avengers\u2019 heroic derring-do, innocents have inadvertently been killed and property damaged. Now the UN wants to \u201coversee\u201d Avenger activities, because it goes without saying that being under the control of a committee chaired by, say, Saudi Arabia is sure to make things better.<\/p>\nTony Stark thinks oversight is a necessary concession, and wants the Avengers to submit. But Captain America (a.k.a., Steve Rogers) disagrees, and he expresses that dissent in words that could eloquently sum up libertarianism itself: \u201cWe may not be perfect, but the safest hands are still our own.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\nAs a proponent of self-governance, I love that sentence:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\u201cWe may not be perfect, but the safest hands are still our own.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\nAs Miss Liberty explains, this is also the sentence that put libs over the edge:<\/p>\n<blockquote>They had assumed Steve Rogers was a New Dealer returned from the dead to teach the world the glories of that liberal high water-mark. But instead (horror!), he\u2019s someone who is deeply suspicious of concentrated power, even to the point that he would use his red, white, and blue shield to shove back at it. One almost gets the impression that it\u2019s, well, patriotic to question state control.<\/p><\/blockquote>\nEven though many liberals disliked the film \u2014 The Economist<\/em> said, \u201cThe Avengers should agree to be placed under UN supervision\u201d \u2014 I think this is a must-see for all Americans.<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This is a must-see for all Americans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2673,"featured_media":1762,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n<title>"Captain America: Civil War" - a film that celebrates self-governance<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"This is a must-see for all Americans.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markmeckler\/2016\/12\/captain-america-civil-war-film-celebrates-self-governance\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\""Captain America: Civil War" - 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