Why does Hollywood lean so far to the left?

I'm an entertainment journalist and movie critic, so I get asked this question a lot.

If Hollywood reflected America,

a half of Tensville town should be as red as it is blue.

But that's not remotely the case.

Why?

Here are five reasons.

One, guilt.

A list actors are paid incredible amounts of money to play dress up.

They're ridiculously fortunate, and they know it, and they feel guilty about it.

That guilt must be swaged.

And what better way to swage it than to speak up for the less fortunate?

The undocumented immigrant, the misunderstood criminal,

women, blacks, gays, and the transgender, too.

And by God, there's an entire planet to be saved.

You can't feel guilty if you're saving humanity, can you?

Especially if it means no actual sacrifice on your part.

Two, the need for meaning.

Somewhere along the line, probably in the 60s when so many wholesome ideas went south,

the notion that providing entertainment was, in and of itself, valuable, lost currency.

Not with the public, but with the glitterati.

Sure, acting brings money and fame, but not meaning.

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