The political aspects of the movie

better than right wing propaganda ;)

I noticed some, but other than the chicken slaughter beginning and the rape button woman it wasn't overtly progressive (I didn't think so anyway, and I consider myself extremely fiscally conservative, therefore a very anti-government-interference social conservative...)

"I do not like mixing up moralities and mathematics."
Churchill

Yes, there was the "rape button woman"; First she mentions about the stringent concealed carry laws in Illinois. It's even worse than when I lived there in the 1980's.

Then you have the kid "Patriot", born on Sept. 11th... of course, he's the mean bully in class.

After that, I changed the channel. I had caught the last half hour a few days earlier and wanted to see the whole thing... But those two "plot points" and the lack of acting sent me in to apathy. I'm watching Frank Langella in _Dracula_ (1979) on this Halloween night...

"This year I'm voting Republican. The Democrats left a bad taste in my mouth."
-Monica Lewinsky