Throughout history artists have use their art for political discussion from Shakespeare to Ibsen to Twain to Michael Moore. It is to get people to think and to eventually act. I can imagine the audiences first watching A Dolls House or Hedda Gabler shocked that a woman would exhibit free will - what a backlash of society to allow women a voice - the right wing religious types would have lynched Ibsen a decade earlier. Naturally such individuals today are saying the same thing "Yo Ibsen, Shakespeare get a real job" We don't want our women thinking they can be free - and 60's America we sure as hell don't want black folk to think they can be free - no our right wing interests would rather keep them down - but it was LEFT artists and thinkers who got these things overturned in large part - the Right? hell the Right are those that allow Hitler to sneak in and who are the root of stepping ont he throats of the poor to keep their riches and power intact - throughout history.

Yes you can promote, like Bush, this anti-academia - I mean Hitler wanted books burnt so it's hardly surprising - it is after all only a a few generations later - History is a good way to teach people to perfect violence and control of media - and Jerry Fallwell doesn't want people to live their lives as they see fit - no because the bible is telling us all what to do.

As Bill Maher said there are people who vote Republican and then there are the sane people. There are no gray areas with Right Wing types(as there isn't in religion) everything is either black or white (good and evil - Heaven how many morons in the US were lapping up "We're going to get the Evil doers" statements? Bush's tag lines were to simplify like in poor melodramas the black hat versus the white hat - evil doers and the champions of democracy and freedom? Freedom - now that's a whole other thing. We're bringing freedom and democracy to Iraq - be serious. What we are bringing is profit to Haliburton - and Michael Moore has a nice inside track on that as well - nothing new there that has already been proven. What does Haliburtan do again? And who uused to be the CEO and no doubt has loads invested? Oh but that is merely coincidence.