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In reply to the discussion: Liberal Hollywood liberals from Hollywood. Why are they so liberal? [View all]Festivito
(13,452 posts)They absorb money from a liquid population. They want MANY to have excess money. When excess money is tied up with a few, they might make an astounding wage once or twice. It's not really this simplistic, they do want more than money, they want that approbation of audience or high sales figures. For the few of them that could make more just pleasing the ultra-rich, they would miss the applause of the MANY.
So, they are a little left of capitalist sponges.
Little left of status quo, but loving the applause for capitalizing on their skills.
Little left for the need of safety nets. They're one accident away from needing it.
B-grade actors like Reagan need a union.
(But, selling out to the rich is far more profitable if you're in a position to capitalize on your position.)
It's not a uniform left. Some are too far left for their own good, as some are too far right for their own good.
They sound like more than they represent, after all their profession gives them amplification of whatever they say. The hard-right then characterizes them as far left.
So, it ends up being themselves with a bull horn against a think-tank army of bull horns.
And, that's America.