and one of the replies backs up what you are saying:
"Miller was actually pretty liberal way back then. Didn't you notice the almost sadisticly dumb ass Reagan (AKA Republican Jesus), the War hero who was forced to sell guns to the Mutants in order to pay his Wife's surgery after she was denied by her HMO over a bogus claim (Wrapping him in the American Flag wasn't ''patriotism'' as some people mind bogglingly seem to think it is, is a metaphor, a super heavy handed metaphor but a Liberal one), the Asshole who wouldn't help anybody and only thought of himself while Jim Gordon pretty much rallies his comunity to solve their mutual problem etc. And The Hippies weren't a caricature on liberals, they were a cynic view of Hippies, similar to the one south park did, were they think they could change the world by smoking pot and listening to music.
It' was really only after 9/11 that he went all Ayn Rand on our asses. I don't like to play psychologist on people I don't even know personally but He seems like he was one of those who were completely traumatized by 9/11 and his writting reflected that. Still, he isn't as cartoonish as people paint him. I remember reading a pseudoliberatarian (actually conservative) blog which I heard he commented a lot in (I was sort of maybe perhaps virtually stalking him a few years ago) and read to my surprise him defending Obama. Well, maybe that's a bit to far. He said that even though he voted for McCain he thought that everybody in there was exaggeratingand that Obama will be an ''Adecuate president'' (Sorry I can't come up with the link, I stopped my stalking long ago) which resulted on a flame war."
Also, several posters over there are saying the Dark Knight Returns should be read as a satire of 80's culture.
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