What SF movies would illustrate my fears?

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Last night’s blog entry made me consider where my own fears are and what movies or books would express them.

If the Tea Party is afraid of the government, I feel that they are afraid that the government is taking the money out of their pockets.  Some of them are afraid that the government want to take their guns.  Others declaim about gay marriages and illegal immigrants and a myriad of other topics.  But the one that I hear most is about money.  Those of us on the outside can smile at the irony of wealthy people leading a movement of middle class and lower middle class people afraid that they will never join the ranks of the rich.  As if!

I suppose my fears of more centered around civil and personal freedom.  I am not afraid that the state will take away guns.  i wish they would.  No, I quivered as the so-called Patriot Act was signed.  I was enraged as Louisiana dreamed up one anti-choice law after another.  My nightmares are “A Handmaid’s Tale” and more centrally “Walk to the End of the World”.  This despite the fact that I’ve fallen out of the age group that could be used as a breeder.   Was it a line in “For Colored Girls” in which the poet said that she found being colored and female ‘so redundant’?  Why are the people so ready to protect their guns also very anxious to keep me from reading certain books, seeing certain movies, and controlling my own body?

Instead of yet another Marvel comic book movie, I would love to see “Little Brother”. It would probably be cheaper to film.