According to the NY Observer, its really the Ayn Rand novel, the Fountainhead, mixed with Republican foreign policy:
While The Incredibles’ battle against conformity and mediocrity screams anti-oppression to some, it’s obviously Randian to others.
Is it simply that, after four years of being beaten up with good-versus-evil rhetoric and post-9/11 fear, somehow all superheroes seem vaguely Republican to us? It’s back to Nietzsche for one more shot.
The Incredibles’ storyline, not unlike most current superhero storylines, will warm the hearts of the Republican elite, and also the scared, ordinary moviegoing folks emboldened by America’s long-time military prowess. Mr. Incredible could be Dick Cheney himself, or Donald Rumsfeld, big-bellied and in mothballs during the Clinton years, watching the world go to hell while nobody needed them, tortured and beat up by the little people and the bureaucrats all around them.
Hat Tip: Tim Blair
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