🔒 Why the Right Will Never Dominate Entertainment

It’s plain to see that the carnival of horror clowns squatting in the United States government are attempting some kind of top-down cultural revolution by force, to replace the dominant western culture with nebulous “anti-woke” and thinly veiled white supremacist sensibilities.

 And they’ve actually had a pretty good run of it so far. A handful of filthy rich, far-right oligarchs—Musk, the Ellisons, Bezos, to name the worst—are simply using the brute force of capital to buy the mainstream media and the cultural institutions and poison it from the executive level. Everything else, the corporations and the educational institutions, can be intimidated by the president directly to cut out any and all public behavior that’s too diverse or feminist or gay.

 Given this, something has stood out to me: Where is all the right-wing entertainment?

You would expect it to be creeping into our lives by now, right? While media warlords are gobbling up studios and replacing managers with people like Bari Weiss, you’d expect reactionary and “anti-woke” programming to start popping up on streaming services. And maybe I’m speaking too soon, maybe they’re still coming down the pipeline, but I haven’t really seen anything announced.

 The Oscars this year are still woke as hell, packed full of movies with big Leftie Themes like Train Dreams and One Battle After Another. Sinners is pegged to scoop up a bunch of awards. Have you fucking seen Sinners?

It’s got me thinking, what would a right-wing pivot for entertainment culture look like? The narrative has always been that there are a whole bunch of right-wing writers, filmmakers and entertainers out there who you’ve never seen because they’re shut out of the industry, but that’s going to change now.

 Okay, so, where are they?

 It’s become a pretty well weathered joke by now that literally the only successful mainstream musicians on Team MAGA are Kid Rock and guy who sang once about raping underage girls.

 Oh wait, that’s also Kid Rock. I was trying to allude to Ted Nugent.

Country music is broadly seen as the only popular mainstream genre that is largely right-coded, but the charts aren’t exactly dominated by country music, especially not the explicitly political songs. It has me wondering, through an Overton window that’s moving to the right, could a right-wing entertainment culture organically dominate?

 The right of my generation and younger like to complain that they don’t enjoy most film, television, music, print narrative, or video game entertainment nowerdays because it’s all woke. But is the problem really that they don’t enjoy entertainment media because of its politics, or is the problem that they can’t enjoy entertainment media because of their politics?

 My theory is that entertainment media is innately and organically left-leaning, and maybe even drives culture leftward, which is why right-wing authoritarians like the Trump administration and western populist right surge, which I hope is an anomalous blip in the history of liberal democracy, try to correct it from the top-down.

 This is why the government has to threaten networks to take people like Kimmel and Colbert off the air to “balance the media” because the right only has one late night comedian, and he’s so bad at jokes that they have to fill out his show with a segment about how bad at jokes he is, which might be a funny idea if he told edgy but clever politically incorrect jokes, but it’s actually just 15 minutes of shit jokes that nobody, including the audience, laughs at.

 Seriously, I have a clip for you here and it even features a brief cameo from the C-list morning show host who is currently starting World War III, which is a sentence I am somehow typing. Here’s a challenge, let’s get a leaderboard going, how long can you last through this? Even if you lean right? This is legitimate programming that was broadcast on Fox. I had to sit through the whole goddamn thing and now I’m 8 minutes closer to death, how far do you get?

This is the material that the right is trying to supplant organic western media with, through top-down regulation. Notably, this is just how they believe media and culture work. The popular conspiracy theory of “cultural Marxism” holds that the too-woke state of western culture that drives them so bonkers is the result of a deliberate scheme cooked up by Marxist professors at the University of Frankfurt, Germany, in the 1920s to steer the culture to the left by infecting popular entertainment media with feminism and queer themes and civil rights and other odious concepts.

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