I entirely understand. One way progressivists (that’s ‘liberal’ in Yank-speak) take over institutions is by making it so unpleasant for those who disagree to stick around (at least, not openly).

And, like the mindset that forced gays to be closeted, it is so, so confident that it is defending “simple moral decency”. Rather than an effortless sense of moral superiority. (How much effort does it take to go along with everyone else? Just as, on the who you have sex-and-fall-in-love-with, how “virtuous” can you be for not doing something you have no interest in doing anyway?)

There was a spring in my step walking to the board room. In the back of my mind I wondered to myself if I should violate my vow of silence about politics in front of colleagues whom I did not have full faith and trust in. Surely this sweeping victory signified that it was “ok” to vote Republican. Surely now I could admit that I had some sympathy for a more center-right perspective on politics. Yes, I’ll mention it during the wine and cheese portion of the meeting…

I opened the door and realized that I was not at a board meeting, I was at a funeral. Everything but black armbands. It was silent. People speaking in hushed tones. Grim faces. Not the usual revelry. And trust me, on any other normal occasion, if you get a bunch of theatre people in one room and open a bottle of wine, a party starts. Not tonight. The meeting was quietly called to order and before the president of the board could announce the agenda, a marketing executive from a prominent non-profit theatre in Los Angeles proclaimed: “Well, I don’t know why we’re even bothering having this meeting since our whole country is going to Hell as of tonight!”….

Sorry to copy and paste most of your article but I was so reminded of a similar experience at the same time, just the next day.
I had been with the US Chamber of Commerce about 2 months when that election happened. Plus, I live in the heart of Tom Foley land!! Our guy had just defeated the Speaker of the House, the first time it had happened in a long long time.
Anyway, I called on a law office the morning after the election (I was still inexperienced as to trial lawyers). Man, what an eye opener. These guys were all but crying and the guy I spoke to first said “do you realize what has happened??”. I was a conservative already of course, but a really confirmed on after that!!
I just posted this because the koolaid flows freely in trial law offices also.

I’ve been surprised that one of the most commented aspects of my first two posts has been the subject of my anonymity. I appreciate all…. (most, actually) of the comments on this subject and I very much appreciate the sympathy and support for my anonymity.

To those who encourage me to not cloak my identity, I suspect I will not be able to sway you and I actually agree with many of your points. I regret that some of you have taken the position that until I “come out of the closet, fully” my contribution is invalid. I hope that in future posts your opinion can be changed a bit. Either way, please don’t harshly judge Big Hollywood as a whole because you disagree with my personal choice to stay anonymous, at this time.

On Friday I will be posting on the biggest, anti-conservative, theatre industry story in the past year: The forced resignation of Sacramento Music Theatre Executive Director Scott Eckern.

I hope that reading it might help shed a little light on my decision to use a pseudonym as I continue to change my name “to protect the innocent!”

Break a leg….

I work in the Music Industry, so there is a bit more freedom, since it involves an audience and record and concert sales, so “green lighting” a project is not really so much of a problem.

But in Rock, for lack of a better word, liberalism rules and in order to get up the ladder you just don’t talk about politics or else you get the cold shoulder.

Now I am a Christian too, so I can’t be silent about that, so it’s like I got two strikes against me as far as building friendships and “networking” in the secular world. So unforunately I don’t talk poltics much, although I don’t think people miss where I am coming from, I hope I give a good example and scare allot of them since they don’t really know anyone else like me except for maybe their parents.

I also teach at a Major Music School and the few times I have said something in a big group I got a response similar to that of Luke Wilson in Idiocracy when he tries to defend himself in court. (Now that was a great “conservative” style movie showing how the effects of liberalism and PC-ness will eventually poison our country if not the world).

I am surprised by an above poster who says his coworkers engage him in conversations about politics to prove him wrong, my experience has been the opposite. On a few occasions I have tried to have debates with others but as soon as they deal with someone with logic and not the typical stereotypical strawman arguments they have been spoonfed they get frustrated and either walk away or get really mad. There usually isn’t another converstion after that, and I am sure they view me as a bigoted, homophobe.

If you have such superior talent that you can afford to piss people off or have a rich uncle who can bankroll your projects you really are best off keeping your head down and mouth shut.

try to convince me that I must move to their position to be “reasonable”

That is why liberalism is more of an religion than a political stance.

I am just saying that too often blanket statements and some social notions are not challenged, especialy in Hollywood. This makes for entirely too much intellectual laziness. And it shows – maybe some actors have not one clue when they are expousing conservative ideals on screen.

So true. I was in NYC theater for almost a decade, totally a narcissist until the veil of 9/11/2001 came crumbling to ash. Until then I thought was a Liberal yet one dark day late 2002 during a rehearsal all I said was “I support the liberation of Iraqi people” because I thought Liberation was a JFK-type of Liberal philosophy.

From those few chosen words supporting Liberty all of the sudden I was treated by the very people I thought were liberally-minded friends as the ‘lone Republican’ and a ‘Bushie’; after which I was ostracized out of the social network. I finally left in 2004.

I didn’t vote for Bush in 2000 nor was I a member of the Republican party, however the vicious groupthink encouraged me to join the Republican party in 2003 and vote for President Bush in 2004.

Today, after spending the last several years educating myself on literature other than plays or movie scripts I am a proud Conservative Republican.

I love Liberty and the only philosophy representing my beliefs exist in Conservative thought; freedom of speech and religion, small government(anti-Collectivism), right to opportunity to prosperity, personal responsibility, and protection of the most vulnerable in society.

In general, I am a Conservative Republican because I love the indomitable American spirit of Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness; or rather, everything the Collectivist groupthink is determined to destroy.