For whatever reason, the acting business seems to attract people who are liberal. Their personalities, impulses, abilities to play make believe on camera, etc., which allow them to make a living as entertainers, also give them liberal world views, which translate into Hollywood activists almost always supporting the liberal side of issues.
Have you heard of anyone in Hollywood who opposes same-sex marriage, for example? Is anyone there pro-life? Is anyone there opposed to the global warming agenda?
I’m no therapist, but, I would believe that certain personality types, with a desire to be “tolerant” of anything, gravitate to the entertainment business. And then, once there, some of them want to use their celebrity to push causes, which are liberal because they are liberal.
It has got to where I seldom go to the movies anymore. I used to go quite often. No longer. All during the war my favorite actors and musicians have gone out of their way to not merely express their opposition to the war, for example, which doesn’t surprise me, but to heap scorn on people like me. Their audience.
So, I’m not “boycotting” them, but I just don’t feel like watching them, the connection is broken. I’m no longer able to see them as their role and can only see them as them. Same with the musicians. I can’t listen to them anymore. Again, the connection is broken.
Artists should learn that the moment you step outside your art, you destroy your art. Let your art speak for you. Otherwise you’re just another uninformed crank shooting off at the mouth. And your audience is heading for the exits.
In the Second World War dozens of actors enlisted, and many of those became well beloved actors throughout the remainder of their careers. I can’t name one, not one actor to have left Hollywood for Afghanistan. Its hard to respect these people the way we did their grandfathers. There are no Lee Marvins in Hollywood and no Jimmy Stewarts.
And it shows; these pretty boys are trying to be action heros, but it falls flat when most families have a nephew or an uncle in the marines serving overseas. They know what the real thing looks like and its nothing like these bozos.
These two have a lot in common.