political views tied towards hobbies

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Republicans are hostile towards the arts compare to Dems/liberals.

I am not so sure when you consider that Ronald Reagan, Clint Eastwood and Jimmy Stewart, three of the biggest names in the history of Hollywood, are examples of staunch Republicans well-known for significant artistic achievements/contributions.

Hollywood is far more conservative than most people realize, but especially when you examine the people who control things behind the scenes. I would go so far as to say there are people in Hollywood who associate with the Democratic Party in order to ensure Hollywood has influence in every sphere of the political realm when they are really closet Republicans behind-the-curtain. Show business is a very cut-throat, what-have-you-done-for-me-lately business behind-the-scenes, perhaps even more so than the most conservative of industries (e.g., the financial industry). The drive for greater and greater profits is on par with Gordon Gekko at his best.

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Republicans are hostile towards the arts compare to Dems/liberals.

I am not so sure when you consider that Ronald Reagan, Clint Eastwood and Jimmy Stewart, three of the biggest names in the history of Hollywood, are examples of staunch Republicans well-known for significant artistic achievements/contributions.

Hollywood is far more conservative than most people realize, but especially when you examine the people who control things behind the scenes. I would go so far as to say there are people in Hollywood who associate with the Democratic Party in order to ensure Hollywood has influence in every sphere of the political realm when they are really closet Republicans behind-the-curtain. Show business is a very cut-throat, what-have-you-done-for-me-lately business behind-the-scenes, perhaps even more so than the most conservative of industries (e.g., the financial industry). The drive for greater and greater profits is on par with Gordon Gekko at his best.

So who would you say is genuinely left-wing in Hollywood?

Probably Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, and Susan Sarandon for those living. I am not sure anybody else in Hollywood is genuinely left-wing. That includes Warren Beatty, whom I have always suspected of being far different from what the public persona displays.

Things are not always what they seem.

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Probably Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, and Susan Sarandon for those living. I am not sure anybody else in Hollywood is genuinely left-wing.

Oliver Stone? Richard Gere? Matt Damon? George Clooney?

I forgot about Oliver Stone because he's been such a useless disappointment the past two decades. Even he lives quite the lifestyle of the rich and famous, though, but I do believe he has guilt about it. I would probably put him in the category of those other three noted above.

Gere, Damon and Clooney are not genuine. They would not only sell their mother to make a buck, they would send her COD. They are all about the fame and money.

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This chart from Wikipedia is pretty interesting:



Unsurprisingly, the loons who play petanque are right-wing. I'd wager they're far-right Le Pen voters, given how much that idiotic "sport" is played by crabby old white males in the south who probably want to kill browns. Those who watch football regularly are probably pretty much split, maybe a slight lean to the left in the old days and the far-right now. They tend to be pretty dumb.

That's a great piece of pseudoscience. Let me guess: It's by a French sociologist who could not handle a real science.

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Actually, Pierre Bourdieu was a philosophy major who switched his area of study when he realized philosophy was grandiosely pointless. I don't think you can assume someone is in a social science field because they "can't handle" studying the hard sciences; that's just a silly thing to say.

If one is interested in analyzing human behavior, economics and psychology are real sciences that adhere to the scientific method. Even if we ignore the lack of appreciation for the scientific method in sociology, the problem with the subject is that it tries to be everything and ends up being nothing. As such, nobody who is serious takes it seriously. It is easily the joke of the social sciences, the redheaded stepchild if you will, and anybody who has become a sociologist in the last twenty years is almost surely incapable of developing a mastering of one of the two aforementioned subjects (hence their pursuit of sociology instead). If you ask me, it does not even belong in the same category as political science, a subject that actually has a place in the world by virtue of its specialization. The same cannot be said of sociology.