Until you fix this…

Why culture matters more than politics, and why nothing changes until it does. Hollywood wasn’t always one-sided. Here’s how it changed hands, what the numbers look like now, and what it takes to build again.

I’ve been in two Billboard-charting bands and built the Rippaverse into a company that’s done over sixteen million dollars in sales. At that level, I can count the people on my side of the aisle on one hand. That’s not a complaint. It’s a data point.

In this one I go through the history: the 1944 Motion Picture Alliance, Walt Disney and Ronald Reagan in front of Congress in 1947, the Paramount decision, the film-school generation and the long march through the institutions. Then the receipts: the donation numbers, why right of center audiences are more tolerant and why that works against them, why artists in the mainstream stay quiet, and why a studio like BioWare closing isn’t a victory.

This isn’t a political video. It’s about a return to normal: creators create freely, people disagree on politics and still enjoy the same things, and nobody gets cancelled or shunned. You don’t take back a table you never valued. You build your own.

Chapters
0:00 Nothing changes until the culture changes
0:52 Who I mean by right of center
1:16 Hollywood wasn’t always one-sided
2:25 How Hollywood changed hands
3:40 Two things that put us here
4:28 The donation receipts
5:16 The tolerance problem
7:43 Politics is downstream of culture
8:27 My own receipts
9:07 Who invests in entertainment
10:07 Renting culture
11:08 Why BioWare closing isn’t a win
12:17 The commentary loop
13:56 What I’m not saying
14:34 The goal: a return to normal
15:10 Build your own

Sources
Hollywood Reporter FEC review (Oct 2018); OpenSecrets via National Review (2000) and Adweek (2008); 1792 Exchange (2024); Pew Research Center, Political Polarization & Media Habits (2014); Cato Institute / YouGov (July 2020); U.S. v. Paramount Pictures (1948); Variety and METI (Japan content figures); EA newsroom (Aug 4, 2026); Washington Post and PC Gamer (Oct 2026). Photos credited on screen, via Wikimedia Commons (public domain and CC).

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