"The Hunt" Sounds Like People I Know and Love--Maybe Even Me

"The Hunt" Sounds Like People I Know and Love--Maybe Even Me

Mick La Salle describes "The Hunt" as a "satire of the extremist tendencies of our current politics," presenting the liberals as "elitist, smug, self-satisfied, wealthy, contemptuous, humorless, insufferably politically correct and self-righteous" and the Conservatives as "amazingly stupid, uncultured, paranoid, broke, (often) fat, gullible, hate-filled, conspiracy minded and resentful."

This is a movie I have to see because I think it's about time that we "Progressives" stopped feeling so self-righteous and stopped being what San Francisco columnist Manfred Wolf calls "the Righteousness Mob." 

I agree that Trump supporters are amazingly gullible and often hate-filled, but so are we "Progressives." 

I'm amazed at how little anyone on the Left checks facts.  We just rally around the people we think know. 

Recently OWL (Older--and Wiser--Women's League) sponsored a panel on "Making Sense of What's Happening at City College."  We really tried to get panelists with more than one perspective and succeeded although no one from the CCSF Administration or the Board of Trustees was available that day, and I can give the short list of those who even bothered to respond to the invitation.

 But I don't see many other organizations trying to present more than one perspective.  What I see instead are rallies designed to present only the perspective of the sponsors.