...is the notion that the corporate-controlled networks would put real honest-to-God leftists on TV to spout politics, such as the film's Angela Davis-type character.
Absolutely no chance in hell.
Extreme right-wingers and crypto-fascists, sure (they're doing it now, and have for years) -- but not actual leftists.
Send her to the snakes!
You people are sooo delusional. You all must be to the left of Marx. Check yourselves into the Loony Bin now!
Marxism IS leftism. That includes socialism, attacking Christianity/Judaism, claiming the US and whites are racist (because the Civil War was current), claiming you're either rich or poor workers (ignore the middle class who are rich by world standards).
That's been of every channel except FOX for decades, and is Democrat policy now. Liberals who support freedom of speech are now called Libertarian and Conservative!