Is this the real life? Is it just fantasy? Is it what's behind Door #3?

□ [“Democratic socialist AOC gets destroyed on Twitter for selling $58 'Tax The Rich' shirts"]

How will poor people get one?  That price doesn't include shipping-and-handling charges.  She's not even trying to show any actual interest in poor people.  She knows where her fanbase is.

Trump gave a speech yesterday.  I didn't pay much attention, I'm still of the 'wait a while before responding to it' mentality.  But I did read the speech and it's a good summary of the fraud that's been found so far.  The problem is that it doesn't go anywhere.  There's no way any Democrat leader is going to quit now that they've gotten this far.  There's talk of Trump starting martial law which I think is a horrible idea and even if it wasn't, that's just how Democrats have been running states and cities for months now, and they don't even need to follow their own rules.

ANOTHER ONE: Dem Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards caught socializing at a country club without a mask in mid-November
December 2, 2020

Crazed Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti Says Cancel Christmas: “It’s Time to Cancel Everything”
December 3, 2020

I've been thinking about the movie industry for months and one thing I've noticed is that the industry comes as close to faking an art form because of the sheer number of people involved in putting together even the most basic ones.

Actors and directors get all the attention but they aren't remotely a large part of the work.  The sets require designers and construction, management and cleaning.  Electricity, lights are needed, then there's costumes, sounding, cameras, make-up and that's just the stuff I can think of, there's probably a lot more.  The crew needs meals, many people have assistants, then there's the unions, the producers...  Notice I haven't even got into advertising or editing/printing the finished film reels.  The director doesn't do it himself.

No other artform requires anywhere near that many people or the same amount of money to create.  An opera, theater or orchestra does require a lot, but nowhere near that many.  The Rolling Stones need a lot of people to tour from stadium to stadium but that has more to do with playing stadiums and transport.  They still play theaters when they feel like it and I'd bet they bring more permanent staff with them than are needed for the performance.

I know there are exceptions to my examples but even there that's unusual.  No other bands are as big as the Stones.  Many movies have been made on very low budgets but still out of our range.  Plan 9 From Outer Space cost $60,000 in 1959 money, more than I've ever made in any year of my life.  I bet if I check the math, it'll be several years worth of my best paygrade ever.  The Blair Witch Project cost at least $200,000 in 1999 money, not counting advertising.

It may not be art, but making a movie does require awareness of large amounts of money that most people never have anything to deal with.  And I have to think that the nature of making the movies on this scale means diminishing individualism by its very nature.  Except the actors.  And the director and maybe the screenwriters, they're all important but everyone else can be replaced.

Music can require a large band but that's not required for anything beyond live performance.  Rock has usually just had four or five members of the band, Genesis and Rush have had even fewer.  Singers may not even play an instrument.  They can all play multiple instruments in the recording studio.

Then there's other art forms.  Books and paintings can be done by more than one person but they usually aren't.  Painters may have assistants, book companies usually come with editors and cover-designers, but they aren't required for the process.  Comics can be done by a minimum of people even in the harshest company conditions.  The penciller can ink and/or letter, the writer may draw, the artist may come up with the story and have someone else fill in the words, a black-and-white comic doesn't need a colorist.

So I wonder if that's a reason that leftism has been part of movies for their whole existence.  You could say it came from elsewhere, it was the early 20th century and leftism was trying to get into everything anyway, but it may explain those who focus so heavily on movies, thought isn't required and the only individuals who matter are the star actors on screen.

And we see them pushing this mentality on everyone whenever possible.  I'm just making the theory up and I'm sure it's not entirely correct but there does seem to be something to it.