If you are just emerging from a time warp entered some time perhaps in the early 1960’s I’ve got a news flash for you:  Hollywood is a Wholly Owned Subsidiary and Propaganda Arm of the International Liberal-Progressive Movement.  I know its hard to believe since just a few years before entering your time warp you were watching patriotic films about WWII, Westerns, and other conservative fare like The Ten Commandments, but just trust me here its true.  You’d probably call them Pinko-Commy Scum but those terms don’t apply anymore because we beat the Pinko Commies over 15 years ago, but lets just not get into that OK.  The point is that times have really changed and the folks green-lighting and making films and other entertainment in America today are almost universally considerably Left of center politically and culturally speaking.

Which is why Sunday’s L.A. Times opinion piece by Andrew Clavan called Draft Hollywood is well intentioned but fanciful at best.  I agree with his intent wholeheartedly.  Lets get a the gist of what he’s saying:

THERE HAS NEVER been an age without war, not ever. Mass violence is a continual aspect of the human condition. Peace, like good weather, is always local and temporary - and what is peace anyway but the result of past victories in war and the effective threat of future war against would-be aggressors?

We play with our children, read books, go to work and enjoy recreations only because people with guns stand ready, willing and able to kill other people with guns who would kill us if they could.

It’s sweet to forget this and therefore difficult to keep it in mind. "It is hard for those who live near a Police Station to believe in the triumph of violence," as T.S. Eliot wrote. That’s us - we Americans, protected by a mighty military that by and large obeys the rules of our republic - safe enough, and keeping much of the world safe enough, so that we find it hard to believe in what would happen if that protection failed.

But these fighters do keep us safe. And because keeping us safe is harsh, dangerous work, we should glorify them, exalt them in story and song by way of appreciation.

"United 93" - the film celebrating the heroic civilian attempt to retake a hijacked plane on 9/11 - opened last week. That’s great. Well done and about time. But now, let’s have some war movies.

We need some films celebrating the war against Islamo-fascism in Afghanistan and Iraq - and in Iran as well, if and when that becomes necessary. We need films like those that were made during World War II, films such as 1943’s "Sahara" and "Action in the North Atlantic," or "The Fighting Seabees" and "Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo," which were released in 1944.

Not all of these were great films, or even good ones, but their patriotic tributes to our fighting forces inspired the nation.

Go read it all because the writer is spot on and the article is worth the time.  I won’t repeat his points, let me just say… "what he said".  I’d love to see our creative types get together and make some patriotic pro-war movies.

It could happen.  A lot of things could happen.  Sometimes they do.  The suits up at corporate HQ at the various studios could suddenly decide that maybe they could make some money providing entertainment to the majority of the country that still wants to win the War on Terror, rather than ceaselessly attacking every aspect of the effort and all arguments for fighting it.  Its possible.

But highly unlikely.  The group think is stronger than ever on the Left and the nation is highly polarized.  Unless shareholders suddenly get some spine and start voting in Board Members who will insist on ending the effort to use the business for partisan political purposes, or to seriously stretch reality force the support to simply flip sides, its just not going to happen.  The existing people are used to doing business a certain way and things will continue as usual.  Business as usual, which is to say Liberal as usual.

The political climate is such that even if by some nearly unimaginable and unforeseeable reason Congress actually passed a law in fact Drafting Hollywood into the War effort all that would happen is that they’d all flee to Canada.  Oh wait, the government there just flipped to Conservative so they’d probably extradite… OK they’d likely free to France then.  Oh, no go again, they’re not taking immigrants right now since they’ve got a whole mess of their own problems…. so maybe they’d go to Spain.  Yeah there you go, the anti-War Socialist government in Spain would probably love to welcome them.  In any case they certainly wouldn’t serve, and if by some miracle they were caught or decided to report for duty they’d select "Conscientious Objector Status" and go peel potatoes somewhere for the length of their service.

We’ll get the odd gung-ho patriotic movie out of Hollywood from the few non-liberal types in the biz.  I’ll look forward to them and will certainly pay to see them at least once in the theater.  Just don’t expect them to be even a fraction of the anti-war anti-patriotic films coming out.

I hope I’m wrong about this.