Remember when entertainment wasn't obsessed with shoving political ideologies down your throat?
Of course, one can argue that's always been the case. I mean All in the Family and Classic Simpsons all had progressive bends to them. The difference is that they weren't shy about taking shots at both sides of the field and above all else, they put the entertainment before the message.
Case in point, I'm a HUGE fan of the 60's Twilight Zone (The 80's revival wasn't too shabby either) and I can't deny it had some fairly preachy messages. Thing was, Rod Serling was a master of storytelling and could give you some decent entertainment while whispering "Racism is bad, m'kay". It's one of the reasons I'm skeptical of this new Twilight revival as modern Hollywood is nowhere near as subtle. The modern approach is akin to pinning you to the ground, bashing your head in with a sledgehammer and yelling "DON'T BE RACIST YOU SEXIST, WHITE NATIONALIST MANCHILD!!!!! IT'S WRONG!!!!!"
End of ramble.