Reviewers paint CA:TWS in the style of political thrillers from the '70s and it is. Unlike a villian-of-the-week plot, the movie was brave enough to address the polarizing stance that pro-police-state factions in our government (S.H.I.E.L.D.) have willingly embraced the tenets of fearmongering fascism (HYDRA). The end result is to enact the remote elimination of U.S. citizens via their voting/purchasing/testing/credit histories (the peaceniks, the atheists, pro-privacy folks, anti-establishment types, everybody who's ever logged into 4CHAN and other assorted free society threats & radicals).
From reading more than a few movie reviews, it seems that CA:TWS also lets us see what we want to see (and a lot of reviewers see right-wing neocon philosophies at work). But I think that it is *impossible* to suss out the political leanings of the "good guys" (civil liberty types) from the "bad guys" (pro-police-state folks): are the pro-police-state/pro-military-industrialists Republican in nature? Or Democrat due to the socialist desire to effectively/inevitably regulate every aspect of society (given enough time and resources) in the name of safety, security and equalizing opportunity?
Unfortunately (and I say this as a pro-regulation liberal Democrat), the reality is that Obama has NOT shut down the NSA, his administration is still continuing Bush's surveillance mandates (if not expanding them), and that the directors/writers of the movie have stated that the plot is derived from Obama's own Kill Lists. Our reality -- as well as the "reality" of CA:TWS -- is that People Who Fear are found in
both political parties... which allows for our heroes to also be found in both political parties and that's always a heartening affirmation for us groundlings to hear.
The movie paints a picture. Our own biases apply the labels. It is damn tough to see that distinction amidst all the bullet-flinging and ass-kicking in this flick (it IS, however, refreshing to see Angry White Men shooting at each other vs. subduing yet another group of foreign brown-skinned people!)