Dancing With Booty...

I happened to be watching a campaign event on TV the other day.  To my surprise one Mr. Kevin Costner, famous actor, found it necessary to endorse Mayor Pete Bootygagg for POTUS 2020.  Why, I don't know.  But he did.  And the very fact that he did caused me to sit back and take notice.

I've opined before just how poorly I view Hollyweird celebritards deciding to educate us, the Great Unwashed, their purported fans, as to how we should all think and feel and vote.  As if we needed that help.  How condescending.  It seems we do quite alright by our puny selves in deciding just who to support politically.  That's how we got Trump, after all.  

But our "stars" have this deep-seated need to share their political leanings with us.  And so do another few thousand of their peers in the Media.  Ad nauseum.  We simply cannot turn on a TV without being lambasted with all the reasons why we should stop our conservative beliefs and adopt theirs.  We must begin to love confiscatory tax rates and guys peeing in girls' rest rooms and open borders and trying to fend off criminals without guns and unfettered abortion.  Hmmm.

Back to Costner.  An Academy Award winner, Mr. Costner has heretofore kept his politics private.  And many of us, me included, were happy about it.  And every other "star" that keeps his or hers or its opinions private and just repeats memorized lines or sings a pretty song is my preference.  I can't ever recall asking myself who Kevin Costner might be voting for so as to help me decide the same. 

But to think Costner, a guy who made most of his $Millions on the silver screen with a gun in his hand, should choose to endorse a guy who advocates forced confiscation of guns is rather, ummm, hypocritical.  

And endorsing somebody who not only believes God doesn't want people to be Republicans, he also intends, if elected, to abolish the Electoral College, the only reason our elections remain fair to all citizens.  And intends to stack the Supreme Court with 15 judges, all to be chosen following a certain "purity" testing.  And intends to open up the jails and prisons and release all the drug felons and make drugs, including meth, heroin and cocaine, completely legal.  And majorly redistribute the wealth of the successful to the, ummm, less-than.  And offering abortion to all, for free, anytime.  Anytime at all, up to the very second of birth.  And to tear down our walls and open our borders and welcome anybody, from anywhere, who wants to come and take a piece of the (used to be) American Dream.  

And oh yeah, take the guns good ol' Kevin needs to make his little horse opera.  Hmmmm...

It's true, Costner's doing okay for himself.  An Academy Award winner ("Dancing With Wolves"), he's been an "A" list actor for 40 years.  His latest gig, "Yellowstone," is a runaway hit for the Paramount channel.  And I was a fan.  A BIG one!  And I emphasize "was."  It films only 10 episodes each season, over a period of about six weeks, and Costner just renegotiated his contract.  He's now "earning" (or being paid, rather) $500,000 per episode.  That's $5 Million for the coming year. 

Yeah capitalism!

It would seem to me that Costner would be one of the very last people to adopt the political leanings of a dedicated socialist like Bootygagg.  But with a Marxist college professor father, I guess we should all be happy that Booty, Jr. is just a socialist.  And with several huge houses and lots of expensive cars and a few private jets, Costner doesn't seem to be too terribly deprived by this capitalist society that bore him, and schooled him, and made itself available to him to be exploited.  And exploit it he has.

I started collecting the names of actors and others who stepped outside the confines of their careers to share with us how we should think.  It started with that Pretty Woman chick who opined on the Tonite Show many moons ago that you could find Republican in the Dictionary right between Reptile and Reprehensible.  And every time I see or hear another of her ilk trying to proselytize, I add him/her/it to my little list.  The list that names those who'll never again get a dollar from me.  Never see another of their movies.  Never buy another of their CD's.  Never see another of their concerts.  I'm up to 232, and counting.  I have room on my list for more... 

When, I ask rhetorically, was the last time you saw a Republican or a conservative celeb (either of them) try to admonish a TV audience into voting a certain way?  My guess would be never.  Liberals should follow their lead...