The Wanderer Enticing The Muses . W. B. Yeats. It's now axiomatic that American culture, including most artists, has hitched its allegiance to the left. In fact, conservatives have so conclusively accepted this reality that they do very little thinking about why this is so.
Feature articles are nearly always about economics or politics.
Very practical, down to earth. Not so the films of Hollywood. Stories of heroism against bigoted, reactionary forces fill screen after screen, along with parables of evil capitalists, shrewdly exploiting the poor and noble. And it's the key to the liberals' artistic dominance. Myths are symbols evoking emotions, cultivating attachment, and delivering anathemas, revealing what a society loves, fears, and hates as depicted in traditional art forms like stories, songs, and poetry handed down from generation to generation.