Yep!
It always amazes me that people in general are listening to these stooges, who earn their livings by portraying persons that they really are NOT themselves!!
95% of them are illusions and living in a "dream" world!!!
I believe that acting is an honorable profession.
I believe it takes talent to convincingly portray someone other than yourself, especially on stage night after night. In a movie or on TV an 'actor' only has to do it right once.
Should I not have listened to Ronald Reagan? Was he a stooge because of his chosen profession prior to politics?
Is Fred Thompsom a stooge because he is an actor? Chuck Heston? Bruce Willis?
I don't see any proof connecting "stooge-ocity" with acting.
What about directors like Oliver Stone, producers, gaffers, best-boys, drivers, foli operators and make-up, set designers and builders, camera and sound personnel etc. They don't 'play people other than themselves'. So, according to your opinion of actors, are these the smart ones that we should listen to them instead of the actors?
Or would it be better to simply accept that Southern California is overwhelmingly liberal for a variety of reasons. Those in the movie industry are no more liberal in general that those in the dry-cleaning, restaurant or any other business category in Hollywood. The whole place is swarming with them. I know. I have to live here.