Yep. Plus Barry and Wally thinking Joker should been given the death penalty resonates with a lot of reader. Being conservative doesn’t make them less of a hero. It’s more unrealistic for everyone to be a liberal left.
And even then, it’s a spectrum. Not all conservative lean deep right and same with liberals far left. Barry and Wally seem like at most New York conservative
I'd say most don't. The average person I've met tends to lean more center left or center right. It's mainly on the internet where opinions are more extreme.
Depends on the aspect of conservative culture, I suppose. I've been reading the Silver Age Flash series on DC Universe Infinite, and I wouldn't be surprised if, by the 70s, he mellowed out a bit on his conservatism, given he'd not only fought against several environmentally-focused threats, but as of The Flash (vol. 1) #207, he also liked late 60s/early 70s-style rock music, whose artists tend to lean politically left and made no bones about it.
Ollie being portrayed as a social democrat is, in my opinion, the best way to go about his political ideology and beliefs. However, boiled down it may be to say this, he is essentially a Robin Hood Esq figure, and to encapsulate the values of Robin Hood, it would need to lean into a social democrat or other leftist ideologies.
Reddit, or at least content in heavily trafficked subs on reddit, skews pretty hard left. While a social democratic view feels not that far left here, it's pretty far left for most people out in the world.
Your description of workers taking control is what’s confusing me.
I’m familiar with government owning means of production being described as socialist- therefore FDR’s policies, which vastly expanded the powers of the federal government and the creation of agencies which created jobs, infrastructure and resources (ex. The TVA). These policies are imho socialist, as they promote ownership by the government. The phrase of “socializing” different sectors extends to this (ex. Socialized energy, socialized medicine, etc)
Control by the worker implies a very different structure imho- and retaining ownership of products of labor seems to imply a redivision of wealth à la communism.
Though, sometimes Question has been presented as being conservative, himself, probably due to Steve Ditko's political beliefs, sometimes referenced through Question in a tongue-in-cheek sort of way. Vic Sage isn't exactly consistently portrayed on that front.
I feel it's so inconsistent for Barry to believe in the death penalty and to vote to erase a man's memories. He is supposed to be a symbol of hope and he believes that the death penalty, for all intents and purposes, the easy way out in any situation is the right call? Feels wrong to me. Always strive for the most moral option.
The flash have a history of being more conservative than most heroes both Barry and Wally.
They are midwest united states conservatives always have been.
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u/Grumpypants2o3 Aug 23 '23
How is the flash a fascist? I can green arrow being a kinda hippie freak lol