Have You Ever Been a Republican or a Member of the Republican Party?

Have You Ever Been a Republican or a Member of the Republican Party? - Todd Strandberg -

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The hatred of anyone who is a conservative or a member of the Republican Party has become so extreme, it's quickly becoming a now or never moment for people on the right. The Republican Party has ranks that are larger than most any political groups, and yet we are attacked by groups that only have less than one 10th of our numbers.

 

During the dark days of the 1950's Red Scare, it would be a career-ending move to admit to being a card-carrying communist. Despite the risk, numerous writers, actors, and directors were willing to stonewall Washington committees that were seeking to identify their party affiliation. Today, if a member of the Hollywood club admits to being a conservative, they are the ones seen as un-American. Any actor who comes out of the closet as a Republican will quickly find himself blackballed by the entertainment industry.

 

It is very odd that nearly all the major studios are run by liberals. Since the nation is 50/50 on the Republican/Democrat split, you would think that the bias of studios would also be equal. In fact, liberals control 90% of Hollywood.

 

Actor James Woods is a rare conservative who has been active on Twitter. On July 4th, his liberal agent, Ken Kaplan, dropped him as a client. "It's the 4th of July and I'm feeling patriotic," the email from Kaplan began. "I don't want to represent you anymore." Woods fired back, "Dear Ken, I don't actually. I was thinking if you're feeling patriotic, you would appreciate free speech and one's right to think as an individual. Be that as it may, I want to thank you for all your hard work and devotion on my behalf. Be well."

 

At this point, Woods can just as well consider himself retired. Once a person identifies themself in the conservative camp, their career is at an end.

 

It is interesting that liberals are the ones who had been moaning for decades about the investigation in the 1950s over the influence that communists had in Hollywood. The House Un-American Activities Committee destroyed hundreds of careers by asking the basic question, "Have you ever been a communist or a member of the Communist Party?"

 

The liberal media have now become Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, and conservatives are the ones who have to be secretive about their party affiliation. Conservatives are one of the largest voting blocks in America, but we keep finding ourselves marginalized because we don't have the will to fight back.

 

When Tim Allen was on Jimmy Kimmel Live on 3/17/17, he talked about going to President Donald Trump's Inauguration. He jokingly said that "being a conservative in Hollywood is like being a Jew in 1930's Nazi Germany." Allen should have been more forceful in his remarks because he quickly became the Jew in the story by having his top-rated Comedy show cancelled by ABC for his conservative views.

 

Over many years, we have become a punching bag for the left. Today, the most celebrated form of comedy is political attacks on conservatives. If a comedian makes a sick joke about Trump, Yahoo.com will post it as news. If you mock leading Republicans at a correspondents' dinner, they give you your own show, just like Michelle Wolf.

 

Cringe comedy is a specific genre of comedy that derives humor from being socially offensive. Sacha Baron Cohen is perfectly set for this form of vile humor because he seems like someone who is incapable of experiencing shame. He will say or do anything for a laugh. Cohen has recently generated news by duping several Republicans into fake interviews on a show called "Who Is America?" Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, Republican state Rep. Jason Spencer, former Illinois Republican Congressman Joe Walsh, and Senate Republican Trent Lott were some of his targets.

 

In his show, Cohen spends most of his time trying to paint Republicans as gun-loving, racist hypocrites. Since it is off limits to go after the true clowns in politics: Hillary Clinton; Maxine Waters; Nancy Pelosi; and Barack Obama, we end up with a very predictable plotline. The debut of "Who Is America?" attracted only 327,000 total viewers and a 0.1 rating among the key demographic of adults age 18-49, according to Deadline.

 

Showtime's highly popular "Billions" delivered 1.4 million viewers when it launched in 2016, according to Deadline. The network's anti-Trump "My Cartoon President," an animated lampooning of the administration, averages roughly 310,000 viewers, according to Variety, which puts it in the same league as "Who Is America?"

 

What makes a Republican such an easy victim is that they don't realize that the world is a constant battle zone. The left is empowered by Satan, and he fights to win.

 

"Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour" (1 Peter 5:8).