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Liberalism and the Media? Why such Chummies?

There’s your occasional Jon Voight or your Kelsey Grammar, but on the whole Hollywood is decidedly liberal, even going as far recently as to be pro-socialism most of the time. Why is it this way? We’re talking about people who make millions of dollars–why do they want it taken away from them?

To get our answer, we have to go back in time with me. Let’s go back and read a bit of what happened to writers in the 1930′s, and how the economic climate brought significant change. So get out your flotation like vest, find Doc Brown and read from Paul Johnson’s A History of the American People:

In the 18th century American men of ideas and letter had been closely in tune with the republicanism of the Founding Fathers. In the 19th century they had on the whole endorsed the individualism which was at the core of the American way of life–the archetypal intellectual of the mid-century, Emerson, had been himself a traveling salesman for the spirit of self-help in the Midwest. From the early (19)30′s, however, the intellectuals, carrying with them a predominant part of academia and workers in the media, moved into a position of criticism and hostility towards the structural ideas of the American consensus: the free market, capitalism, individualism, enterprise, independence and personal responsibility.

So, we see that there’s a peculiar shift in the way artists of mass media thought, whether it was authors, journalists, or intellectuals on the whole. But why? Why does Sean Penn hate me? Why does Keith Olbermann want to keep my child from having the same opportunity that he and I had? Let’s read on:

Total book sales fell by 50 percent. Little, Brown of Boston reported 1932-33 as the worst year since they began publishing in 1937. John Steinbeck complained, “When people are broke the first thing they give up is books.” Thus impoverished, writers and intellectuals generally veered sharply to the left.

And so it has remained up until our day. They don’t like art being a part of the capitalist system: they can’t stand the fact that the public holds their paycheck in the collective hand. Artists are susceptible to the power of the dollar just as much as a plumber, and they don’t like that. Their egos force them to believe they are better than the yokel who spends $9.50 at the box office. They wish to be an elite class permanently set up in our social hierarchy. When they’re really just regular people who can play pretend really well. Think about that, next time you hear one of them talking: say a Mat Damon or a Brad Pitt.

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The Taxman is Coming:

Just a reminder that the tax season is upon us as if you didn’t know. Also, this would be a good time to bring up the fact that this could be the least taxing year we have left, after the bill comes due for all the new entitlement programs. Enjoy the freedom while it lasts and vote conservative in 2010.

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VAT Tax Is Here:

Though he acknowledged that both were still unpopular ideas, he said getting entitlement costs and the U.S. budget deficit under control may require such moves. “If at the end of the day we need to raise taxes, we should raise taxes,” (Volder) said.

It’s coming.  The beast is never full.

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