Katniss Everdeen, ‘A Young Sarah Palin’
I’ve read “The Hunger Games,” and I know that American girls (and boys) are lining up at movie theaters to watch a skilled huntress — a young Sarah Palin, if you will — who does not submit to authority. Everdeen might be a girl, but she has a chance of surviving because she mastered the bow and arrow to feed her family after her father’s death. Everdeen is not cruel. She always strikes a squirrel in the eye so that it doesn’t suffer. She is fierce, but not fearless.
I’ve committed to not writing about a certain former Alaska half-governor, but sometimes I run across someone so absurd in their hero worship of Caribou Barbie that it strains the bounds of credibility. This is one of those moments.
I’m constantly amazed at how so many worship a woman who excels only at self-promotion, ignorant self-righteousness, and character assassination. How does one elevate someone who rarely seems to have a meaningful, coherent thought to an almost godlike level? Are the standards of some so low that accomplishments, intellect, and gravitas are considered secondary to symbolism and bluster?
As if I even need to answer that question….
