See the thing about Captain America that makes him potentially the greatest anti-establishment superhero is that he supposedly stands for what America is supposed to stand for, and since America has actually never stood for that it makes him the perfect vehicle for challenging American bull**** authoritarianism while expressing the disappointment in the ideal that was never realized.
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Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien
There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
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