I had a similar experience in my writers guild. There was an automatic assumption that if you were "intelligent and creative" you were also liberal.
So the snarking about Bush cropped up, as if we all were in automatic agreement. Which left me (and a former FBI agent) to pin their ears back.
Like I have said before, jaws dropped and they looked amazed...startled, stunned...
"Buutt, buuutt...you both are so, so...SMART!"
he he he...
HOWEVER,
In my dance group,
While there are a couple of libs,
There is also appearing to be a couple of rabid, hawkish conservatives arising. Would like to think it is my influence...but really, I think it is because they are becoming serious, committed adults and growing up.
"There was an automatic assumption that if you were "intelligent and creative" you were also liberal."
Yeah, that's the assumption. I've always thought that the best people in the arts have not stooped to political demagoguery from the right or the left and deal with universal truths that speak to the human condition.