I think we can afford to view certain individuals on a case by case basis.

I can sit back and find elements of them funny but frankly Im amazed that anyone would, for a single second, regard them as conservative.

Today I see it as providing a willful misinterpretation of the misty, inchoate suspicions many Whites have that there’s something wrong with our nation – the same suspicions LaRouche, Rense, Jones, David Icke, or Glenn Beck tap into. The plot of They Live suggests that we’ve been sold out by our own kind to a hostile, alien elite who are using media brainwashing to deify money and consumption. Ultimately the blame gets pinned on extraterrestrials.

It’s tempting to see They Live as a nod to the fact that our government has been subverted. It isn’t really. It’s a single B-grade grain in a larger sandstorm of bullshit that makes a mockery of that very idea. Did Carpenter intend that? I think he was simply trying to tap popular sentiment to earn a buck. But the movie got greenlighted only because it served the interests of the subverters.

People who truly cause the subverters problems are not permitted to do so for long. Sheppard and Whittle, for example, are in prison. Their crimes are detailed here.