The 2016 Election is the Capitol vs. the Districts...Only Without the Hunger Games
- Jul 7, 2016
- 2 min read
The Hunger Games Wikipedia page describes The Capitol as “lavishly rich and technologically advanced, but the 12 districts are in varying states of poverty.” With six of the top 10 wealthiest counties in the US residing in the Washington, DC metro area (median income), we can make a case that the Capitol and the DC are similar in makeup. They both boast their elites, socialites, and the media works to keep the cycle of utopian life alive under the watchful eye of the President. We’ll just refer to these most wealthy and powerful as the “establishment”.
The districts make up the rest of the nation. A few districts are loyal to the Capitol; we’ll call these the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, Great Lakes, and the West Coast. The other districts in the Midwest, South, and the Heartland lay in full revolution mode, as they’ve grown tired of being treated poorly while the Capitol lives lavishly. We’ll just refer to these revolutionaries as the “anti-establishment.”
Unlike in the fictional country of Panem, the United States will elect their new President in 2016. The two main candidates reflect two main characters in the movie. Hillary Clinton is the female version of President Snow. In the public eye, a grandparent-like persona with a good speech and smile. Behind the scenes she is cold, cunning, and corrupt. While the Hillary supporters may cry fowl by that comparison, 66% of the country believes she’s untrustworthy and the FBI Director exposed her lies to the American people even though she wasn’t indicted. She isn’t Katniss Everdeen.
The Republicans though being handed a President Snow-esque Hillary Clinton could have put up a Katniss, Peeta, or even Gale to lead a revolution of the “anti-Capitol” anti-establishment cause. Instead they chose Haymitch, the crass, crude, bomb-thrower in the likeness of Donald Trump. With that said, Haymitch did win a Hunger Games and coached Katniss and Peeta to victory in the 74th Annual Hunger Games. Will Trump though be able to coalesce the districts to take on the establishment when most are wondering if they want to risk their future and sanity behind this man?
The 2016 US Presidential Election will be its own Hunger Games; nasty, grueling, and an all out war for survival. The questions remain; Can Hillary Clinton build enough of a coalition of the establishment to overcome what seems to be a growing anti-establishment sentiment? Can Donald Trump unite the anti-establishment who are tired of the two-world system without alienating them with boisterous tirades? May the odds be ever in their favor!
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