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I just saw the movie "North Country" yesterday. It's a well crafted and acted powerful film based on the first class action sexual harrassment suit in the US. Although I doubt if the film is intended to project this, my left of center thought process couldn't help but see it as a allegory to our current arrogant Republican one party government.
The movie is about the first female workers at a coal mine in dismal northern Minn. The woman are subjected to extreme sexual harrassment dailey; but they are powerless and feel threatened to seek recourse, even from their union. The roles of the intimidating bosses could easily have been played by Bush, Cheney, and Frist, and the chief protaganist is Tom Delay in miners clothes. The star, Charlieze Theron (in another great performance since her Oscar), takes on these thugs single handedly against impossible odds. Yet, here is where the political allegory ends since there is not a Democrat male or female with half the guts Charlieze's character showed in the film or in real life since this movie was based on a real case.
For example, yesterday on Meet the Press, Demo Senator, Charlie Schumars was asked by Tim Russet, if he would still vote for the war in Iraq today as he did before. And Schumars didn't bother to correct Russert and say he didn't vote to invade Iraq, he voted for the resolution to give the President the power, if all other peaceful means to avoid war didn't work. At least kerry, for all his failures, tried to make this distinction, when he totally blew his answer to this question in the campaign. Schumars didn't say hell no he wouldn't have voted for this resolution especially if he knew how dis-honest this administration was and how they cooked the intelligence and mis-represented the threats to justify going to war. Schumar, instead, mumbled something to the effect he would vote the same today because he supports the war on terrorism........What is wrong with these Demos in sheep's clothing? Doesn't he know by now he can still support a war on terrorism and not support a war of choice on the wrong battlefield Iraq, fighting the wrong people Sunni insurgents.
I guess he thinks his constituents are too stupid to understand he can still be against terrorism and not support the dishonesty that got us into Iraq. And more important , just like the other female miners in the movie, who were so afraid they would lose their jobs if they spoke up about the harrassment, Schumars is a coward.
If a character like Charlieze in the film doesn't pop up soon from the ranks of the Democrats to say these Republicans are dishonest thugs and I don't care if it costs me my job......then we are in for a long stretch of one party government and political and economic abuse.