Why Hollywood is leftist

[gilliam]

In the publicity build-up to Arianna Huffington’s launch of her ambitious new Huffingtonpost celebrity bloggers website, I thought it revealing to see that the default assumption in the mainstream reporting on it was that Hollywood bloggers would be liberals.

The New York Times report said, “The site is likely to start as a watering hole for liberals.” Variety reported, “Huffington is wisely confining her site mostly to politics. It’s safer, after all, for liberals to bash the government than Hollywood.”

It has become just a given. People speak of our town as being exclusively populated by liberals. It isn’t (and please count me alongside Chuck Heston, Mel Gibson and many other conservatives here), but non-liberals in Hollywood usually seem conspicuous or, if not yet secure in their stardom, stealthy. For years, great minds the likes of Rush Limbaugh and Michael Medved have mused over what causes Hollywood’s leftward political tilt, but they have never quite nailed it. So, let this fool rush in with a theory here.

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[st.jerome]

I think there’s truth to what he says. My humble knowledge of theatre history shows the same patterns. Theatre troups would tour the countryside and, actors being no more respectable than servants, would not mingle with the local townsfolk. Such conditions would foster a large, extended family environment among the actors. Responsibility for the children would be shared among the collective, etc. Its much the same thing when we think of traveling circuses. Of course, Hollywood is a different ball of wax but its interesting that it would adopt similiar patterns.