This is why we lose. We can't even recognize that we've lost.
You're saying Spielberg, Stephen King, and JJ Abrams are all hacks? Spielberg is a legendary director. He is. There is no doubt of that.
King is a legendary writer.
Abrams has brought STAR TREK and STAR WARS, both enormous franchises, back from the dead. Can you imagine being in charge of both the Star Trek and Star Wars franchises? It's a dream come true.
That's JJ Abrams.
These guys are not hacks. The questions is: why do these men rebuke conservatism?????
Hacks.
They are diligent and disciplined. Good technicians. But hacks.
Rodenberry created Star Trek. Not Abrams. Abrams has technical resources to make his equivalent of fan fiction look good, for the time. That’s about it.
Spielberg is legendary in that his films have made a lot of money. But they are clunky, telegraphed and derivative; of little artistic value.
There are greater artists who are also liberals. So many good artists or creative people who are left.
Art transcends politics and great art is not political.
For example the greatest movie maker of the last 30 years has been Hayao Miyazaki. He is a leftist.
On the other hand, Frank Capra was conservative as was Disney.
The left has always tried to co-opt art for it’s purposes. It always creates second rate work that is stilted. The right does not do that.