Apparently a few words of poking fun at Washington Democrats...
Unfortunately, this "poking fun" has become the base of why irrationality reigns among the right. You were thanked by a Trump cult member who's entire world view revolves around irrational hatred. Your joke, was his rally cry.
has spawned your unmoored over-the-top rant against Trump
Considering that he is already going down as one of the very worst in American presidential history, there can be no over-the-top. Over-the-top is the blind support that his cult offers him as he pushes foreign interests ahead of America's in virtually every region on the planet. He's done this in the Pacific, Europe, and the Middle East. So, why did Putin want to see Trump as president? Trump even tried to use a foreign government to interfere in the coming election. Over-the-top is just denial.
Because I have always made clear that I didn't vote for Trump (or anyone else) I feel no obligation to defend Trump or Republicans.
Fair enough. But "do-nothing Democrats" does resonate and calls out to that anti-left irrationality.
However, in regards to entertainment being politicized, it is laughable to accuse "us people" (whoever that is) of doing the politicizing.
And this is exactly the point. You have chosen to see something like clearly documented racism as a political tool. Instead of seeing Democrats choosing right from wrong, and politicizing it, you simply see politicization, thus oppose on a false political basis. It is the same garbage as Global Warming or childhood obesity, both of which used to be Republican platforms too because right and wrong used to matter.
For the last 30 years we have seen an exponential increase of politics in entertainment (as well as ordinary life), most of it from the left. You don't think that Hollywood movies like Philadelphia, the Color Purple, V for Vendetta, Cider House Rules, and hundreds of others aren't left politics in adult entertainment?
Two very different things:
1) Movies present stories, in which political people choose to rally behind or defend themselves against for really no reason unless they feel vindicated or attacked.
- The fact that AIDs and homosexual rights are seen as a "left" thing, and not an American right's issue, was a choice made by Christian conservatives.
- Seeing a story of slavery and a rejection of it as a "left" thing is a modern day choice of people who don't like being reminded that conservatives fought to save it. Even today, conservatives complain about the destruction of Confederate statues (made well after the Civil War and during Jim Crow), instead of acknowledging exactly what they represent. You choose to see the Color Purple as a "left" thing.
- V was about a rejection of right-wing extremism of the Nazi style, thus choosing to call that a "left" thing needs personal reflection. Thought through, this is akin to declaring that "the left" fought Nazism while conservatives stood by. This is obviously not true. "The left" was involved with the Soviet Union and the fight against Germany. "The right" was involved with defending Germany and fighting against it. But the movie V offends you?
- Didn't see Cider House Rules.
It is not "the lefts" problem that conservatives constantly side with authoritarianism and feel a natural disdain against those who reject it. If you can't watch these movies without feeling that you are being attacked, then reflection is in order. You should not feel attacked if right and wrong, not partisanship, matters. The twentieth century is full of liberal-minded people (to include conservatives) who chose to reject the radical right-wing all over the world. Today, American conservatives have chosen the radical right-wing in their zeal to reject right and wrong as factors in their agenda. That's a choice.
2) Democrats elected Reagan, Schwarzenegger, and Trump? It was the Democrats who used Clint Eastwood to try to denigrate Obama? Don't confuse movies that tell of the human condition for the conservative's enthusiasm to turn celebrities into political representation.
Only a grade A idiot would, upon thoughtful review, think that the problem of the politicization of entertainment is a 'right wing thing' when it is clearly many more times true as a left wing obsession.
Say's the guy who likes to ignore Reagan, Eastwood, Trump, and Schwarzenegger...while defining movies of the historical human condition as political offenses against him. You see Star Wars? Were you angry when that Rebel scum ruined the Empire's good order and discipline? I mean, clearly, the destruction of the Death Star, government property, was just thrown in your face.
