Oh don't know if I'd consider many of the "artistic" lefties to be rather creative. But I would say that they fancey themselves to be creative. Which is a world of differance.
As for Sc-Fi buffs most that I know are split down the middle politically. And the lefties which happen to be friends of mine have become too intimidated to get into a political debate with me :^D It's sad though, I often do enjoy a good debate.
"And the lefties which happen to be friends of mine have become too intimidated to get into a political debate with me" I've had that experience too, from my few liberal friends, to co-workers and even to my sister, who, while not a true leftist, has still not recovered from the working over I gave her for defending Clinton when he was impeached. I'm not particularly argumentative, but I'm not too good at hiding my feelings about things either and I do have a tendency to allow sarcasm to slip out unchecked with some regularity.