Verhoeven himself openly regretted missing the satire mark with too many people.

That was pretty significant since that movie was such an absolutely blatant in that it was a satire i don't even know how anyone could misread it. Turned out, a lot of people apparently did a very stretching mind edits.

Oh and also Verhoeven said that and then made Dune adaptation, yet another book with horribly fascistic fandom missing incredibly obvious messages, and this time he didn't even tried.