This article explains exactly why liberals rule the media, arts, entertainment, literature, etc., and why conservatives are always left out and marginalized.
Conservatives view art as being in the realm of the intelligentsia and of the elite, and as we all know, the conservative movement’s culture war has been for the past 20 years deriding anything that it deems elitist, including educational institutions, non-profits and legal organizations that protect the freedom of speech that allows artists to express themselves freely. When a controversial piece of art is produced, who defends it? Liberals. Who whines that it ought to be censored? Conservatives. So in that sense, the conservatives movement made a conscious political choice to abandon art to the liberals, and is now paying for it.
Secondly, this view that there needs to be more “conservative art” really shows how little conservatives understand and appreciate art. Viewing art as a tug of war between ideological factions is tantamount to admitting that you simply can’t appreciate art on its own merits. Arguing that that there needs to be more conservative art is like arguing that there need to be more paintings created using the color blue.
The fact is that anyone can create art, but liberals are a much more represented in the art world because art as an institution is more important them, and therefore liberals get to set the tone.
When conservatives: a) Stop viewing artists and artistic institutions with contempt and b) stop viewing art as a political tool to gain power and start viewing it as an important means of expression and as necessary for survival of our democracy, maybe then they’ll be welcomed back into the art world. But as long as the conservative movement is run by banjo-strumming (hey, that’s art too) anti-intellectuals who are terrified of having their pure little minds jaded by controversial images, liberals will continue to rule the arts, and by extension, will continue to claim victories in the culture war.
