Why are so many forms of entertainment politically left-leaning?

It's institutional pressure. Right-wing ideas in fiction are generally blacklisted. Production companies and publishers will turn down screenplays and manuscripts that contain right-wing ideology. Why do you think Twitter dipshits canceled Baen Books? It wasn't because their forum had a few /pol/ users. That was just an excuse. The real reason is because Baen will publish just about anything.

Not to mention, a lot of authors have degrees, which means that they have been influenced by academia, and our colleges are very hostile towards right-wing ideology.

Right-wing people are too busy working in the trades to become authors. They're your plumbers, electricians, welders, factory foremen, farmers, construction workers, truckers, seamen, et cetera. They would laugh at the idea of sitting down for extended periods and just writing. They live in a culture that does not foster any real curiosity about how the world works. In fact, they are deliberately kept incurious and walled off from participating in culture. If you're wondering why so much entertainment espouses left-wing ideology, or is openly Marxist or anti-capitalist, just look at where the division of labor lies in the real world. Who is writing, who isn't, and so on and so forth.

Another issue is the division of the genres. SFF, with the possible exception of some Mil-SF, has been a leftie (or at least center-left liberal) paradise for a long, long time. Part of that is because of what authors are writing about. Science Fiction and Fantasy authors tend to occupy their time describing fantastic realms that don't bear any resemblance to our present-day world except perhaps in some of the most general of details. In these settings, there may be the same old strife, the same old things that create political conflict in the real world, but it's framed around a society otherwise concocted from whole cloth.

Those with a bit more of a traditionalist mindset like to work with what's already there, rather than imagining what could be. Right-wing authors are drawn more towards political and war thrillers and dramas set in the real world. SFF is exceedingly popular these days, so their stuff gets buried.

And then, when it comes time for critics to assess their work, openly right-wing authors don't even get an honorable mention, even on the occasion that their work happens to be of high quality. The editors' picks at all the top media outlets will be a solid wall of hyper-progressive stuff.

Being an author is a business. Why would screenwriters and novelists bother trying to break into an industry that's hostile towards them and interferes with their financial success?
 
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Few (or none) of these will be surprises, but on the not-so secret Republican society in Hollywood:

If Breitbart was the cruel right hand of FOA, Gary Sinise was the heart. Along with co-founders Grammer, Voight, and Heaton, other members included Jerry Bruckheimer, Robert Duvall, Clint Eastwood, Dennis Miller, and Tom Selleck. David Mamet joined after his “conversion” to conservatism. Other FOAs included Mykelti Williamson (“Bubba” from Forrest Gump), Kristy Swanson (the original “Buffy the Vampire Slayer”), character actor Nick Searcy (the balding, irascible guy from every movie you’ve ever seen), Dwight Schultz (“Madman Murdock” from the original A Team), Robert Davi (the pockmarked terrorist from every movie you’ve ever seen), Joseph C. Phillips (The Cosby Show), John Schneider (yee-haw, it’s Bo Duke!), Jim Caviezel (The Passion of the Christ’s Viking Jesus), Bo Derek, Robert Hayes (Airplane), David Zucker (Airplane), Clint Howard (Ron’s brother), Powers Booth, and veteran stand-up comic Tom Dreesen.
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Mothra1988 said:
It only got really bad after Obama's re-election for whatever reason.
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I know exactly why. In 2013, the Smith-Mundt Modernization act was attached to the NDAA for that year which permitted domestic broadcasts of propaganda for the first time.

There is no coincidence this sudden, universal shift occurred at the same time across all corporate media and entertainment platforms. It is entirely state-directed and 100% fascist. Even to the point where the messaging is outright standardized across these ostensible competitors.
 
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I think it boils down to the fundamental distinction between contemporary right/left western politics. Right wingers are generally pragmatic and leftists are typically idealistic. Right wingers go for jobs that are secure and make decent money, leftys go for their dream job. No one who is pragmatic is going to pursue media work because by and large unless you make it big the job security is non existent, the hours are long, the pay is sub standard, and you may have to move to some miserable shithole like LA.
 
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Mothra1988 said:
It only got really bad after Obama's re-election for whatever reason.
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Agreed. Modern wokeness has ruined the vast majority of media for me. We had a real golden age going for us back then. Doctor who used to be a great show and it could've continued to be great without that hack Chibnall running the show.


I used to like all the superhero tv series stuff but it's fucking unwatchable now. Marvel's agents of shield was pretty good, I think there might have been hints of wokeness but if so they were so subtle I didn't notice. Which is good because we watch TV to get away from all that bullshit and being reminded of it totally pulls me out of the experience.

Arrow was good up till a point. I never finished it.

Battlebots. Now there's a good show. Absolutely zero politics anywhere in sight just good old fashion wholesome destruction.
 
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Mothra1988 said:
It only got really bad after Obama's re-election for whatever reason.
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Yep. Around 2014-2015 was the tipping point IME. For whatever reason indeed, but around that time you had Gaymergay, Blumpft, BLM shit, that was the turning point where leftshit really took over.

Anyways. The reason why is because leftism is a religion. And religious fundamentalists love to spread their beliefs. When leftoids put their religion in their art or games or whatever, they're fulfilling that urge.
 
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Few (or none) of these will be surprises, but on the not-so secret Republican society in Hollywood:
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Republicans and Democrats are all on the same side anyway, and anyone in Hollywood who's also involved in politics is guaranteed to be as vile as the rest.
 
Hollywood has a number of "kingmakers" who's support you need to get funding and approval to work with the people to make your project a reality. They are universally leftists.

I was listening to a podcast of a guy who used to be a script writer. He was in talks with one of the kingmakers to get his project made. Everything was going well, until one day he randomly got an invitation to a fundraising dinner for a big name leftist politician. He didn't attend, partly because there was no explanation for the invitation. His project was pretty much dead the next day, and he was ghosted by the producer.
 
Because most of the "conservatives" who whine about "muh woke in works" are either boomers or autists with boomer world view. Of course everything is "left" according to them lol
Entertainment industry is a typical middle class occupation anyway and middle class tends to be conservative (not conservative for alt-rightoids' standards tho)
 
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NoonmanR said:
The short answer is Nepotism/Tribalism. Hollywood hires it's own, or those that think like themselves and nothing beyond that. There actually used to be a right wing part of hollywood but hey died off with the western afaik.
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So why is so much of right wing studio's attempts at entertainment such cringe? There are studios outside that system, you know...
 
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A few reasons come to mind:

1) Progressivism comes with the artistic territory just as much as being a flamboyant faggot does. Most people who make movies aren't doing it to "make a good story" or "entertain", they're doing it to say "this is my work, look at what I accomplished, praise me!". Both can be done, but you rarely get just the former. Because of this, the writers, directors, artists, actors, social media handlers, blah blah blah take it upon themselves to put 'the message' into their projects because they want to be part of a cultural attitude shift, or at least announce which side they're on so they can look like a good person to whoever cares.

2) Gatekeeping. Look at ComicsGate for example. Guy came along who was sick of woke comic books, saying they're trash, tried making his own comic, got a lot of backers from it, and then some blue-koolaid-drinking big shot comic twat used every resource at his disposal (which was a lot) to shut it down. On one hand, this shouldn't really come as a surprise because if an entire demographic of customers say that your shit sucks and they want to get into the industry to do better, you probably wouldn't want to work with them (or worse, have them as a competitor). But on the other hand, there are whole mediums of entertainment so engulfed in political bullshit that everyone involved in production is in an echo chamber, so nothing ever improves. It's just asspats all around and profits stagnate till they nosedive. I heard that The Terminal List is a pretty NOT woke show and a lot of people liked it and gave it a high poll rating, yet critics slammed it (kind of funny because the author of the book said 'we made this for the audience, not critics, get fucked).

3) Right leaning people typically don't work in entertainment. It's just not something their interested in. They're more into things like: opening businesses and building generators to make sure they can still have running power when globalists shut off the power when the great reset starts or whatever. And even if they were interested, they wouldn't go through the process to get hired by Disney, at least at this point they wouldn't. Most of the hires for movies are young, fresh out of art-school types that will suck the director/keygrip/gaffer's dick just to stay on the set. Anti-woke would rather just do their own thing on Youtube to get paid from their own supporters (and the successful ones have made bank doing it so I don't blame them going that route).

As for the change-up after Obama's re-election, I think #metoo had a lot to do with it. Hollywood quite literally got caught with their pants down. Even though it was an open secret that producers were finding the hottest chicks and giving them roles in movies in exchange for some dome, the level at which it was happening was exposed big time. Then everyone in the movie industry scrambled hard to try and apologize and 'do better' and it was this tryhard race to make material that respected women. Not that women got hired more than they did in the past, nah they just put it all in the message as a half hearted attempt to say "Look, we're on the right side. We're good people, I swear! .....please keep buying our stuff.

Lastly: Women, minority, rainbow and generally young audiences spend the most money on dumb shit. This is why advertising is also geared towards them. Women spend money on it because they are easy to entice and buy into things getting pushed on them. Minorities spend because they likely weren't taught money management in addition to having a need to flex. LGBT is spending all the money they get because they know they don't have offspring to pass wealth to and they don't have a long life expectancy due to HIV/Syphilis/Suicide. And young people care about being cool so much that they have to get in on the latest thing. And all 4 of those groups, because of their situation, have a lot of depressed people chasing whatever dopamine rush they can get. So until they either snap out of it or more anti-woke start paying BIG for entertainment that isn't woke, this is how it's going to stay.
 
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Because "artistic intelligent and creative people tend to be liberals." According to those who adhere to such beliefs.

Never mind the severe amount of corporate influence in said entertainment. Maybe it's an attempt to be trendy and attract a certain demographic. I can't even enjoy video games or art or movies without being bombarded with current year crap.
 
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An easier question to answer is "why are there soo many forms of non-physical/electronic-entertainment" compared to say like the 1950s where their vision of the advancement of technology was directly married to the advancement of mankind as a whole. Then you look at who wanted to control the social narratives then vs now. fucking magics
 
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If you're obsessed with entertainment, you're probably a faggot. And left wingers love faggots.

Kinda the inverse of religion, where there's a ton of closet faggots.
 
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