Do You Remember When...

...you didn't know your favorite actor's politics?  

Do you remember when you didn't even THINK that actors HAD a political perspective?  Or CARED?

Me too.  I remember when I didn't know how this actor voted, or that one, or who they supported politically, and I don't remember wondering why I should have cared.

But boy, Howdy!  How times have changed!  Now, it seems that EVERY. SINGLE. SOLITARY. ACTOR. has a deep-seated, ingrained, DNA-centered need to tell us, the Proletariat, the Great Unwashed, the Simple-minded, the "John Q. Sixpack" among us what their own particular brand of politics might be, and then presume to tell us we must also adopt that posture.

And if we don't, perish the thought, we're all called homophobic, Islamophobic, xenophobic, claustrophobic and several other "phobics" yet to be defined. 

In other words, do as they do, think as they think.  And if you don't, you'll just be relegated to that pitied group that unfortunately dwell in that vast wasteland known as "Flyover Country."  Or, as that (in)famous TV personality Bill Mahr recently commented, 

"They're just jealous of us. They're not as educated or evolved as we are and they're jealous!"

Yes, he's an ass, but he's a Progressive so we already knew that.

But things started changing about 20 years ago.  I recall watching Julia Roberts on a late night TV show a couple of decades back proudly stating, "You can find Republicans in the dictionary right between Reptile and Reprehensible."  

Laughter ensued.

I stopped dead in my tracks.  I was shocked to hear a celeb opine on such a topic, knowing that in doing so he/she/it (gotta' add it...California, doncha' know) was risking alienating a chunk of the populace they need to keep their swimming pools clean and their illegal alien housekeepers paid and their Bentleys fueled.  

I thought it was an outlier at the time.  A fluke.  I was wrong.  Unfortunately.

A cascade of political commentary began to spew from the well known Hollywood types.  Beginning with the less well known, it didn't take long before the "swells" began to try and out-hate each other.  One by one the tony, anointed few began to tell us just how much they luuuuved all Left-wing causes and Democrat politicians.  When Jay Leno departed the Tonight Show the comics who replaced him and those from his era have since been uniformly hardcore Leftists.  

Not comedians.  Leftist opinion mongers, all. 

But the folks between the Sierra Nevada and the Hudson River, are not.

They till our fields.  They make our cars.  They fell our forests.  They mine our minerals.  They build our roads and bridges and airports.  

And they go to the movies, too.  And watch TV.  And buy records.  Or choose not to do any of the three.  And lately, about half of them are choosing to leave this sad, demented, hypocritical, supercilious bunch in their wake.

Imagine being dependent upon the support of the populace for your bread and butter, and being so wealthy or so immune to the obvious that you don't have to care what half of them think of you?  Or is it that they're just so very stupid and ignorant and self-centered and vainglorious and so immersed in their own manufactured existences that they simply can't see the forest for the trees.

It seems that there's one of those celebrity award shows about every week.  That's where the celebrities get together and give each other little awards for being...celebrities.  And it seems that they each choose Robert De Niro to be their presenter.  And it seems that he must, simply MUST launch himself into a frothing, spittle-producing, arm-waving tirade against Donald J. Trump.  Always peppered with plenty of "F" words, it is.  Plenty.  On live TV.  Plenty...

I often wonder why they don't just give every celeb one of their little awards, instead of just one.  You know that would go a long way toward improving their self-esteem, right?

And I often wonder how it must be when they get together socially.  "I hate Trump."  "No, I hate Trump!"  "Well, I hate him more than you do!"  "No you don't!  I hate him more than anybody!"

And while all this is going on, people like Alyssa Milano (who's she again?) seem to have adopted prophylactic abortions-for-everybody as her primary avocation.  And she makes it her avocation to convince us to join with her in her little crusade.

I have an idea:  How about actors and actresses and singers and dancers and entertainers in general just do their little artistic thing and leave the rest of us alone as regards politics and Social Justice Warriorism.  They'd make more money and our lives would be less stressful.  

Of course they won't, because that would be intelligent.  But hey, it was a good thought...