Imagine

I think I understand why conservatives contribute to candidates; we want to reduce the size of government and its control over our lives. In order to accomplish this we must have elected officials who are willing to limit their power over us. But why would rich liberals, like movie stars, bother with the political system?

It seems to me that most liberal movie stars tend to be engaged in politics because they are concerned with certain social issues like homelessness, protecting woodlands, health care, embryonic stem-cell research, etc. What I can’t understand is why they don’t pool the billions of dollars a year they make and address these problems directly.

One movie can gross over one hundred million dollars (not including DVD sales). Imagine what good their money could do if all the liberal stars got together and made a couple of movies a year and dedicated the money to one or all of these causes. They could build thousands of homes and protect thousands of acres of forests. They could set up health clinics for the uninsured all over the country. They could fund embryonic stem-cell research that we are told will make paralyzed people walk and cure cancer.

But instead liberal movie stars spend their time, money, and effort on getting politicians elected who promise to take Joe Six-pack’s money to do these things. I’m not saying that celebrities don’t already support charitable activities, but just imagine what they could do if they got together and invested as much energy on solving these problems directly as they do on political activism.

Imagine.