It’s election season, which means that Hollywood is going to come out swinging for whoever the Democrat candidate is. Because the candidate is a mixed race woman who isn’t white, the sycophantic nonsense is going to be turned up to 11.
Or rather, it’s being turned up. As the Daily Wire noted in an article on Thursday, names like Ben Stiller, Nick Offerman, and Hanoi Jane herself came out as celebs for the Kamala cause, even using Democrat talking points to describe her Republican opponents:
“I’m proud to be a Kamala Man, who has quit the GOP because I just can’t abide a man who’s tried for 34 felonies,” said Offerman. “It’s time to stand up and face the facts that the men that I once cheered are a bunch of wing-nut white nationalists. Those guys are f—in’ weird.”
“It’s not just because the orange man is terrible, it’s because Kamala is the leader we need right now. She’s fierce, she’s smart, she’s experienced, and she can beat him,” said Fonda.
Do they actually believe in Harris? Fonda might, but I’d be willing to put a lot of money on the rest of them not having any confidence in her in the slightest. Her own party is having a hard time with that. What I’m especially sure of is that if they don’t say things like this, their careers could be threatened. Their reputations could take a hit, and they would become pariahs in their own circles. For some Hollywood celebrities, not worshiping at the altar of leftism is more of a great sin than pedophilia, and I wish I was being hyperbolic when I say that.
In that vein, it should be well understood that this isn’t a fandom of Harris driving these people, but a loyalty to a party whose radicals embedded in Hollywood will tolerate no discord. Any lack of submission to the body politic is blacklisted or, at the very least, their path is made harder.
So you have Offerman and Stiller repeating the same lines you hear MSNBC and Kamala Harris saying. They’re reading from the same script authored by the same writers.
But I’m not sure this is going to hold out long. Hollywood does seem to be undergoing a change of sorts. Actors are leaving California due to a culture they can’t seem to get on board with. Complaints of a rigid mindset are becoming more common.
In June, I wrote about how celebrities like Matthew McConaughey and Glen Powell both confessed to losing any affection they had for L.A. They both moved away from the bubble. So has Chris Pratt, Mark Wahlberg, Russel Crowe, and a host of others.
(READ: The Gilded Exodus: Hollywood Is Losing Its Luster, Even for A-List Celebrities)
On Thursday, Variety reported that “Wednesday” star Jenn Ortega bluntly said that Hollywood “Everybody wants to be politically correct, but I feel like, in doing that, we lose a lot of our humanity and integrity, because it lacks honesty”:
“I wish that we had a better sense of conversation,” she continued. “Imagine if everyone could say what they felt and not be judged for it and, if anything, it sparked some sort of debate, not an argument.”
“Am I describing world peace?” she then asked herself on a lighter note.
There once was a time when saying things like this would have seen someone tossed out of the gilded bubble, but that power that kept many a Hollywood star in line is now losing its strength. This could be because the internet is allowing for a host of alternative directors and actors to create their own market that has cut into Hollywood’s bottom line. It could be that overseas films are becoming far more popular. It could be that the recent Hollywood strikes have shown that the powers that be are behind the times and are struggling to stay in power in a rapidly changing world.
(READ: The End Is Nigh for Hollywood)
It could all of those things, it could be none of those things, but one thing is for sure, Hollywood is a shadow of its former self. The bubble that controlled so much of America for so long has become so thin that it could pop any moment.
The question is, will this election be the thing that pops it. Usually, politics is downstream from culture, but Hollywood has become so political that it’s fused with the Democrat Party.
I’m willing to put some confidence in the idea that the Hollywood bubble will pop sooner than later. Between its continued failures at the box office thanks to woke, leftist politics inserted into every film and television show, and its forced support of a candidate that amounts to a bad joke, I can’t see the old guard that runs things surviving much longer.
No business can survive bad returns indefinitely, and randomly spaced moments of victory won’t save it.
The world is moving on, and that includes many celebrities. If Trump wins the 2024 election, I believe you’ll see something of a fast deflation. Audiences sick of hearing about how their values are crap from a group of degenerates gets old fast, and that goes for both Hollywood and the Democrat Party.
Harris could be the straw that breaks the camel’s back. Her loss could trigger a massive cultural change. People are already turning away from Hollywood, but this might speed the collapse.