Blame Hollywood for Rise of DSA, Communism in America
Film industry did far more than just ignore nation's 250th birthday
It was the audible gasp heard ’round the world. Or, at least we hope it was.
The host of “Real Time with Bill Maher” shared an alarming Tweet from an advisor to New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani over the weekend. It said, “Elect more Communists.”
Maher’s studio audience gasped in response.
“Good. I’m glad you’re shocked,” Maher told them, describing how the Democrats are being swarmed by the DSA movement – Democratic Socialists of America.
Said movement wants to radically transform America. No more president or Senate. Wide open borders. The end of prisons as we know them. And so much more.
That’s not some false GOP narrative. It’s straight from the group’s agenda.
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DSA is taking over the Democratic Party, while establishment leaders cower behind a “big tent” talking point. They’re afraid, and understandably so.
Yet Maher is virtually alone in trying to warn the nation about their ascendancy, at least in mainstream Hollywood circles. You won’t hear other late-night shows doing the same.
“The Daily Show’s” Jon Stewart is running cover for this far-Left, radical movement. He’s also attacking the one sane Democrat willing to defend the party’s old-school principles.
Fetterman: Does Israel engage in a genocide?
Stewart: In Palestine? Yes.
Fetterman: I strongly disagree. There wasn’t a genocide. The Jewish community actually experienced a true genocide.
Stewart: They’ve killed like 1,200 Palestinians since the ceasefire.
Fetterman:…
— Clash Report (@clashreport) August 6, 2026
What does this have to do with Hollywood? Plenty.
Yes, the corrupt Legacy Media is downplaying and/or ignoring the radicalism flooding the modern Democratic Party. They’ll ask a tough question here or there, at best, but never do any real follow-ups or otherwise press DSA candidates on why their brand of communism will thrive while every other version has failed.
Miserably.
Hollywood deserves a fair share of the blame, too.
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It starts with late-night TV and “Saturday Night Live.” These comic institutions have looked the other way as the DSA goose-stepped across America. Yes, “SNL” is on summer vacation, but the show had plenty of chances to mock Mamdani’s radical policies and coziness with antisemitic figures.
It ignored all of the above. And, when the show returns this Fall, the show will skip the latest DSA insanity (if past is prologue).
The problem extends beyond late-night liberalism.
How many movies have shown us the folly of socialism and/or communism? We have to take the Wayback Machine to find a few examples.
- The Lives of Others (2006/German)
- The Death of Stalin (2017)
- Mr. Jones (2019)
Why hasn’t Hollywood made more movies tackling socialism? Couldn’t a studio, major or minor, find compelling dramas from Cuba or Venezuela, nations under the thumb of repressive socialist regimes?
It’s not for lack of material. Those dramas could feature heroic acts of defiance amidst crushing poverty and dictatorial regimes.
The potential is endless. So where are those stories?
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This Fall, Oscar-winner Alex Gibney will deliver a gargantuan documentary on Elon Musk. That’s a smart choice given Musk’s contributions to the world. You won’t find a more worthy topic.
What about tales from the Soviet Union? The rise and fall of Venezuelan dictator Nicholás Maduro? The latter offers a compelling final act, the U.S. government’s remarkable capture of the strongman earlier this year.
Mayor Mamdani is bringing government-run grocery stores to the Big Apple. He isn’t the first politician to try that gambit. It’s failed in the past. That’s another worthy documentary subject, but it’s one we’ll never see.
Kansas City tried 1 city-run grocery store for $18 million. The result?
✅ Barren shelves
✅ Rotting food
✅ 24/7 theft pic.twitter.com/96sl0obB8Y— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) July 27, 2026
It’s hard to know how many schools are teaching students about the folly of Communism. Why not supplement whatever is being shared with films, TV shows and documentaries that tell the big picture?
Except Hollywood won’t tell those stories. And, as a result, we have a wave of radical candidates selling voters on the glories of socialism.
And too many people are buying it.
Hollywood wields enormous cultural power. Consider how many women embraced the “Rachel Haircut” while NBC’s “Friends” ruled the TV landscape. Or how Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” changed the national conversation on global warming, for better and certainly worse.
Or ask Tina Fey about how her Sarah Palin impression dramatically impacted our impression of the Alaska governor during the 2008 presidential campaign.
The industry could have used its soft power to show what socialism does to society. Instead, the industry doubled down on superhero movies, reboots and sequels.
There’s nothing wrong with that, but storytellers could have done so much more to warn us about the looming threat to the American experiment. It’s bad enough that Hollywood in toto essentially ignored the nation’s 250th birthday.
This is far worse.
The Legacy Media, which peddled the Russian collusion hoax and defended Dr. Anthony Fauci’s distortions among its many missteps, is once again failing America.
La La Land has failed us, too, by refusing to tell stories that need to be told.
La La Land might change its tune when the DSA begins seizing the ‘stolen land’ and the mansions on them from those far-Left radical Hollywood elites.
Exactly. Rich lefties never seem to understand that “eat the rich” will eventually lead to them as the main course. They think that talking up socialism and supporting communists will buy them a reprieve. Even their gated communities won’t save them.
You have to hand it to Hollywood. They’ve managed to make everyone hate them. The right loathes them because of the arrogant way they mock and ridicule us, whereas the left sees them as rich, capitalist hypocrites.