I have nothing but contempt for Glover, Penn and Spacey as citizens, but Penn was quite good in Mystic River, and Spacey was exceptional in The Usual Suspects and Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, to name just a couple (KPAX and LA Confidential also come to mind).

Actors gravitate to socialist tyrnats becasue they are postmodern leftists; they are drwn to postmodern leftism because of two reasons:

1 – they are drawn to drama and play-acting because they want to get out of themselves, be someone else and be the center of attention – like a tyrant. chavez id not the “mean director” on their lot, he is the star. the star they want to be. a benevolent star, of course – one who rules center-stage for the common good and pleasure and edification of the audience.

2- they are trained to “become” the character they play and to completely empathize with the character regardless of whether the character/role is evil or good or how mixed it is.

this desire to be the star and this trained ability to empathize by identifying with the role makes actors very morally and culturally relativistic. these are core values of the postmodern left.

this is why they look at international conflict as merely about power relations and not values – because values are relativistic, and therefore something you never fight for EXCEPT if there cross-cultural unanimity; (which is why the left over-values the UN).

they see the USA as the bully who has no right to “inflict” our morals on to any other nation.

they do not see the USA as defending anything noble – like Universal Values, because they don’t exist for the postmodern left.

they existed for the Old Liberals – the classical libs like FDR and Eleanor and Truman and JFK, but not foe the Penns and Moores et al.

ALL THE BEST!