Good vs. Bad---it’s a long one, folks
Caution: Broad statements and vast generalizations ahead!
Good: The Rainbow flag, Iraqi flag, USSR flag
Bad: (Read: tacky) The American flag (and, really, any symbols of support for the nation and/or its present leadership or policies).
Good: Marx and Lenin, Mao and Castro (after all, they supported or fought in the Worldwide Socialist Revolution against the evils of Capitalism and the Imperialist Western Democracies)
Bad: Washington and Jefferson, Hamilton and Adams (they were white, male, Christian Capitalists who owned slaves)
Good: Questioning traditional American patriotism, ideals and values.
Bad: Traditional American patriotism (jingoist nationalism), ideals and values (oppressive, arrogant, intolerant and unfair).
Good: A solo Superpower United States, tail-tucked, neutered and firmly ensconced in the lap of the UN, while allowing tinpot, pissant tyrants to push us around.
Bad: A ballsy, impudent, "Imperialist" America that---can you believe it?--- actually takes the lead, ignores what other countries think, and moves to defend itself and its allies, and perhaps to spread its good fortune to other, less fortunate nations.
This is accomplished by toppling hostile tyrants and dictators and helping to form hopefully democratic, freedom-loving, peaceful governments with Capitalist economies. For shame.
Good: Enormous government with untold numbers of agencies and departments (requiring higher taxes) "serving" the people by wrapping their tentacles around virtually all aspects of their lives. This is expected and acknowledged to somehow remain conducive to "freedom".
(However, this is really only considered a good thing unless said government is headed by a conservative President who wants the ability to spy on religious fanatics who want to kill large numbers of Americans. Then it’s considered intrusive, horribly unjust, oppressive and Fascist.)
Bad: Smaller, less intrusive government (and lower taxes).
Good: Religion of any kind, except Christianity.
Bad: Religion of any kind, especially Christianity.
Good: Abortion of any kind.
Bad: Prisoner execution of any kind.
Good: Socialism; or, a (supposedly) strictly-regulated Welfare State, which happily hands out questionably-adequate sums of money (sums unofficially based mostly on race, gender and/or ethnicity), and yet somehow maintains a steady level of lower-class people who can’t afford to get off welfare and move above their station. This, in turn, has the unacknowledged benefit of keeping a steady flow of votes for Democratic Party candidates.
Bad: Capitalism, which expects able-bodied people to earn their own living, and to therefore be willing to work for a better life for themselves, their families and their communities. These people, though, will often begin to vote for more conservative candidates. We can’t have that.
Good: Ethnic, religious and social minorities, the economically and socially disadvantaged.
Bad: White, heterosexual Christians (especially males) with jobs.
Good: A Liberal Supreme Court, which will legislate from the bench, and impose laws favoring liberal views and opinions.
Bad: A Conservative Supreme Court that won’t.
Good: Feminism and women’s rights, pornography (this, because it frees us from our social/gender-imposed bonds and makes us question our roles….or something. Whatever. And besides, the First Amendment protects pornography, even though it’s degrading and harmful to women; so, we have our right to it! Fight the Man!).
Bad: Traditional gender roles.
Good: Complete freedom of the body, mind and spirit without imposition of traditional mores (giving us the solid, firmly-grounded concept of "moral relativism"). Homosexuality and sexual perversion. Who are we to judge what you like or dislike, right?
"It’s your thing; do what you wanna do!"
Bad: Outdated ideals---things like basic morality and decency based on social and religious concepts. The repressive idea of "Sin".
Good: Cars, SUVs, limousines, airplanes, consumer goods, on-demand light and heat for the home. Homes.
Animal Rights. Dolphins, the California Condor, the Snail Darter, the Elk, the Great Horned Owl. Edible food. Vegetarianism. Environmentalism.
Bad: Industry, construction, drilling for oil or mining to generate, create and/or fuel all of the above-listed amenities. Insecticides. "Kentucky Fried Chicken". Pollution (created, of course, by motor vehicles, industry, construction, drilling, mining…etc.).
Good: "Brokeback Mountain", because it destroyed barriers and positively portrays two men in a non-traditional, loving relationship. Socially relevant!
"V for Vendetta", because it portrays a heroic rebel terrorist fighting against an oppressive government led by evil ultra-conservatives. Timely!
Bad: "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe---The Chronicles of Narnia", because it is based on traditional Judeo-Christian principles and philosophy, and negatively portrays a female who practices a non-traditional religious belief. How stereotypical.
"The Passion of the Christ", because it spreads unhealthy, outdated notions. Also, it was produced by a Christian fanatic, who impertinently went outside the normal Hollywood avenues to get his propagandistic movie produced. And besides, it’s a serious movie about Jesus, man! C’mon! No satire? No parody? No car chases or gunplay?
I mean, Mel, baby----if you’re gonna show us all that blood, have somebody gettin’ a cap busted in they ass!
Good: Government-funded "art" and "artists", which produce cool, spectacularly talented and socially positive works. Works like a crucifix suspended in a jelly jar of the artist’s urine; a lithographed print of the Virgin Mary smeared with elephant shit, and a similar image of "The Last Supper", using Photoshopped images of centerfold models from porno magazines. Toy soldiers (green---symbolic, no?), twisted and melted into surreal shapes, then glued onto a picture of President Bush, to portray a disdain for US military forces and recent actions.
Push that envelope! Push their buttons! Make’em think!
Bad: Any possible hint of government funding or backing of religious (read: Christian) groups and/or ideals, and of munitions factories, which produce the weapons used by the hated US military to defend the rights of those groups, and even the above-mentioned "artists", to do what they do.
Good: The First Amendment, because it can be used by liberals to speak out about and against the evils of the United States and of Capitalism and Conservatism.
Bad: The First Amendment, because it can be used by those Capitalist Conservatives to defend the United States, and to expose the idiotic hypocrisy of liberalism and its outdated, disproven Socialist ideals.
I’m sure I missed some. Anyone care to pile on?