# Which dystopian \*movie\* do you feel the US is headed for?

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**Created:** [November 5, 2020, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dystopian-movie-do-you-feel-the-us-is-headed-for/924844 "2020-11-05T15:55:35Z")\
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After spending the last 72 hours in a malaise of dread, anxiety and despair with the American election, I decided to distract myself with various post-apocalyptic and dystopian movies - hey, when you’re down, might as well hit bottom. But (sadly?) it did end up distracting me from what is going on by trying to decide which fictional movie would be the closest match for the future that our current events have provided.  
My final choice was the movie V for Vendetta, in that we have a near future where a ‘religious right’ overtly purged those of color, sexual orientation, ‘liberal’ viewpoints and the like, while the rest of society looked over it due to apathy or fear, then ran their own carefully crafted media empire that continued to support their new establishment. To the point that their own citizens were terrified but unwilling to take any steps. My major dissonance with the choice is that we aren’t going to have any superhuman V to step forward and wake people up - which is a mistake in terms, people were fully awake, but too apathetic to do something about it.  
There were a ton of other options, but I’d like to hear which ones have resonated with you folks. Let’s hope that these futures remain fictional.

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