Marvel’s Flag-Smashers are an increasingly familiar type of Hollywood villain: terrorists whose goals seem objectively positive (equality; anti-fascist rebellion), but are demonized by their violent methods. Meanwhile, the heroes stand for a vague and politically neutral brand of “peace” and “justice,” which they support by, uh… violent methods. But it’s fine when they do it, because they’re the good guys.
What do the Falcon and the Winter Soldier actually stand for?
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What makes the conflict between Karli and the GRC really weird is that, bizarrely, both sides are depicted as reactionary regressives.
The GRC's ultimate goal is to turn back the clock. They want to go back to the way things were before the Blip. Their slogan is literally "Reset. Restore. Rebuild." They're working hard at undoing societal changes that took place after the Snap so that everyone can pretend the last five years never happened, including progressive policies that we should want to keep around.
The Flag-Smashers' ultimate goal, meanwhile, is to turn back the clock. They want to go back to the way things were during the Blip. Their main policy is open borders which is actually a progressive policy, but it was something that already existed before the GRC came along.
So now their agenda is constantly phrased as trying to go back to the way things used to be. "They think life was better during the Blip, but it wasn't." They've imagined a romanticized version of a glorious past that they're trying to restore by burning down the present status quo, which is more or less regressive politics 101. But that romanticized glorious past specifically means, "Progressive policies existed."
So we have this weird political situation where the regressive regressives have been largely successful at regressing all the progressive policies and so the progressive regressives have to try and regress progressively over the progression regressions of the regressive regressives.
Just discovered there is literally a line of dialogue spoken by Red Skull to Steve Rogers in Captain America: The First Avenger where he says “I have seen the future... there are no flags!”
"Listen, she's giving displaced people shelter and medicine. That kind of thing creates loyalty, man."
Yeah. Yeah, it does. It really fucking does. It kinda makes her look like the good guy in this situation, when she has to do that because the people displacing those people are depriving them of shelter and medicine.
This character is supposed to be the main villain. Um.
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