Do artistically inclined people tend to be more liberal?

[Palefire]

Do artistically inclined people tend to be more liberal?

[Palefire]

I'd say yes. I think creativity, free thinking and imagination tend to lead to liberalism. But, that is not saying that liberalism tends to leads to creativity, free thinking and imagination.

[Palefire]

I think reality bears out my point. But I was really just trying to reclaim the thread from being another odious Hitler discussion.

As far as YOUR point about right wingers tending to be close minded, sheeple and boring; I'd have to disagree. Both sides have plenty of them.

Manners, manners.

[Palefire]

The portion of the artistic community that looks for, much less receives, hand outs from the capitalist class is very narrow.

From an economic point of view (which is only a small piece of this puzzle), I think it would be more revealing to look at the motivation of the typical artist. Most don't live and breathe to make money; they live and breathe to create and express. People that live and breathe to make money don't tend to be economically liberal. People who view money as side issue in their lives tend to be more economically liberal - and for many different reasons; some altruistic, some not so altruistic - that depends upon the individual.

Now we come to this with two different perspectives. NYC has a very different art scene than Ashville and Penland and Durham. The NYC art scene a pretty messy one that does involve hand outs and the like for some - so I get what you are saying. But I think it's a very large generalization to impose the actions of few upon the many.