I would guess the Left’s center of gravity has something to do with how most of those institutions controlled by the Left depend mightily on heavy taxpayer funding and/or government preferences. Only Hollywood on that list doesn’t depend on those things.

Restrict the Left’s taxpayer funding and end their government preferences and watch how the Left’s base shrivels, along with their power.

Bingo, bingo, bingo.

And that is why I am optimistic about our ability to roll this back. The idiot leftists have spent the country (the industrialized world, really) into insolvency. The Tea Party is not about people who want a better deal from Government, or who want this or that pet program. It’s people who want radical reductions in government spending. And the public pension bubble is only going to harden their hearts. Look at what happened in Bell, CA Monday night. A mostly Hispanic town (supposedly the future demographic destiny of the Dems, right?) turned out to protest obscene salaries for their public *cough cough* servants.

Or look at tenure. It’s already falling and the NYT of all places is pondering the possibility it could dissapear.

The only thing really standing in our way is the cadre of vichywasser pols still trying to run the GOP as an employment agency for themselves. They keep thinking they can either tap into the Left’s public trough, or else build their own parallel one. If we can solve that problem, our own problem, how we care and feed true small-government politicians, the rest of the dominoes will fall.