Posted on 10/12/2017 11:41:15 AM PDT by mononymous
Things that have become clearer from the Weinstein affair:
(1) in their ideal world, Hollywood is a model of what the left would like this country to be; a world in which the rich, elites have control over and manipulate every aspect of our lives.
(2) socialism/communism is a natural consequence of their belief in (1); one only needs to look at the Venezuelan model to see what happens if they succeed and to a certain degree, folks like Weinstein have successfully implemented the Venezuelan model within the Hollywood sphere.
(3) it is possible that the many leftists in Hollywood are guilt-ridden and try to compensate for their “success” because they know that the industry is basically a racket with the highest possible barriers to entry. In a way, these people deserve to be pitied for selling their body and soul for essentially, fame and all its perks.
(4) there is nothing in that place that is based on a meritocracy unless the merit was to have slept with someone in power. If women with family in the business and presumably with access, like Paltrow, Jolie and Sorvino had to face these kinds of abuses one can only imagine what a truly talented nobody from Kansas has to deal with.
(5) it is hard to imagine how anyone who holds truly conservative values (a) can find work in that place and (b) even wants to be there.
(6) the reflexive hatred of all things conservative or even RINO-ish by the Hollywood/showbiz crowd is most likely due to the belief that they will be judged unfavorably by anyone who does not share their predilections, natural or unnatural. A conservative in Hollywood must be what they portray garlic or a crucifix is to Dracula. That place is, to an extreme degree, a very very exclusive club, a cult, to which street cred is gained by attacking anyone who disagrees with their world view.
(7) the outrage last fall to candidate Trump’s “locker room” talk wasn’t because he expressed it but because some of the women (Judd) who made the loudest objections to it identified with what he said. (8) the porn industry, in some ways, is more honest as everyone knows what price will be paid to whom and for what purposes.
(9) Hillary, Obama and others in the Democrat party claiming to be “shocked” by these disclosures are as laughable as the suggestion that Hillary’s missing emails were about yoga (seriously, does anyone believe this woman does yoga?). Frankly, I’d not be surprised if they’ve blackmailed many in Hollywood to do their bundling.
(10) finally, unfortunately, the political class in this country share some of the exact same attributes noted above and both groups feel that they are superior (elites, therefore) and know what’s best for the rest of us.
I wonder if this is happening because he is “past his prime” and his company had financial problems.
I was thinking that all the previously ‘safe’ arrangements and relationships with the Clinton gang are now defunct since she ‘lost’.
All bets are off, so to speak
There is a lot of ill will, resentment and spite to go around for everyone
I read that the “powers” would not tolerate him portraying the Jews as the heroic fighters depicted in Mila 18, by Leon Uris.
http://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/Harvey-Weinstein-to-adapt-Mila-18-as-film-501992
Whatever, he’s definitely the gatekeeper to hell’s cesspool.
We're talking the most important movie actresses of the last 30 years based on your description, though.
(2) socialism/communism is a natural consequence of their belief in (1); one only needs to look at the Venezuelan model to see what happens if they succeed and to a certain degree, folks like Weinstein have successfully implemented the Venezuelan model within the Hollywood sphere.
What this basically means in practical terms is this:
Once the government takes over control of every aspect of your life, the "Weinstein's" of the bureaucracy can force anyone to please them in order to maintain their allotted government disbursements.
The "casting couch" becomes universal if you want your handout.
-PJ
Governing transformed into just another business.
Officially
Why are mummers important?
All of life is nothing more than the repetition of ninth grade over and over again - Weinstein was just one of the cool-kids in-crowd - no more, no less.......
One wonders about it all; why are all of his enablers suddenly out there? Who knows? Maybe it’d all become obvious at some point.
Would be hard to do. However, the hypocrisy of these people cannot be overstated, ever. Remember when “binders full of women” was made into a big deal? By the way, has NOW said anything about any of this? I haven’t seen any.
I agree. In one of my earlier posts, I speculated that in the future, we’ll all be registered Democrats this way, we can collect our “chits” without the presumption that we are enemies of the state.
Unfortunately, it certainly seems this way.
Every Leftist dreams of achieving that kind of power over the proles - droit de seigneur in exchange for free healthcare and a monthly check.
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