This is a great post about how Steve Rogers aka Captain America would be very political and liberal on news shows. Fox News has no idea how to handle him, so he mostly ends up on The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, and The Young Turks:
Liberal Steve Rogers
I could comment on a lotta things here, but I read the bullying part and a whole speech from Cap popped into my head.
Random defensive person: “Well, boys will be boys, y’know?”
Captain America: “Sir/Ma’am, in my day, boys became men. And we did it by going overseas and fighting the kind of people who bully those weaker than themselves. Now I’m not saying we should send all these boys through what I had to go through, but they should be learning what I did somehow.”
Also, about “Captain America for President” when he turns 35 — you mean when he turns 105, but nobody counts the 70 years under the ice. I imagine Tony Stark or Peter Parker teaching him how to turn down the offers by saying “We don’t need another old white guy in the Oval Office” and it becoming a meme in and of itself.
I can just totally see Steve parking himself in the way of some white nationalist march and just glaring at them. “No you don’t,” he says, “not here.” And then when they start yelling and throwing things he just takes it until one of them swings on him.
And then it’s on like Donkey Kong.
I am not so certain Cap would be a “liberal” as in “progressive” as much as he would be a “liberal” in the Framers’ “this country was made for people with some fundamental disagreements, so please act like responsible grown ups” sort of way. So, probably fewer appearances on “Young Turks,” but pretty much the rest of the post is spot on.
Most individuals are fundamentally decent. However, groups tend to sink to the lowest common denominator and there is always someone willing to try and harness legitimate discontent to illegitimate ends.
Cap is fundamentally decent and then some. He has seen where some of these path’s lead with his own eyes, as opposed to maybe brushing up against the idea of the consequences academically. He also has the strength, physically and morally, to do something about it.