Submitted 10 hours ago by Patnou@lemmy.world to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
Just seems like its adversarial media/hollywood makes fun of politics and people the whomever pokes back all in jest. Now it seems the joke taking or whatever has become serious and dangerous in tone. How did that become so? I can only think of McCarthism when it started.
Rupert Murdoch to get Fox News viewers in the US in the late 90’s. He started that dumb shit the way you understand it today.
Nah, the attitude WAY predates Ol’ Rupert.
I think we see more liberal actors and athletes because many of them weren’t born into luxury. Many were just regular people who understand the struggle because they lived out before they got big.
Even the nepo-babies raised in Hollywood, probably learned their values from their parents and mean more left.
Republicans have been vilifying “the others” for decades, whoever it is. Immigrants, communists, people of color, secret cabals of pedophiles, there’s always a boogie man to blame.
Since caring about other people became a liberal idea, not been able to pinpoint exactly when that started but wow.
They are upper class Californians. It would be surprising if it wasn’t left.
It’s like being surprised rednecks from Mississippi aren’t right.
Art in all forms, everywhere, throughout history leaned left.
Funny since rednecks have everything to gain from left wing working class solidarity and elites have everything to gain from right wing trickle-down economics.
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Artistic communities always lean left. Hollywood and Media are artistic pursuits.