Having made a living in the arts for over thirty years as an actress and married to an actor, and having been a "conservative", but only in the Russell Kirk sense of it as a person concerned with "spirit, character and the inner order of the soul", Having been on the front lines of show biz, I am perhaps harsh in my judgement of contemporary conservatives, but their retreat from engagement in contemporary culture is, to put it mildly, a shameful dereliction of duty. We have abjectly failed in our duty to serve our fellow man, we who believe in the soul of that man. 

What our lack of engagement in pop culture has fostered is decadence. Like so many, I always thought decadence would look like an Aubrey Beardsley painting, all dark, drugged out, sinister and amoral. In fact, decadence does look like that, but it is caused by a dominant set of ideas taking hold which no one dares to question or bothers to challenge. What remains to amuse the minds of the general public is trivia and smut, because people do need something to think about. If you don't engage their better selves, their spirit and character, you will find someone else has made a gob of dough engaging their vices. Ergo, the drugged out, sinister, amoral fascinations take hold.

But the point is I’m writing this because American culture has been a Potemkin village created by globalist elites for at least the past thirty years and I want to set the record straight about that. For their own greedy purposes and to line the pockets of their friends and supporters, all cultural outlets in this country have been pure propaganda, even those stars and pop singers you thought were so great weren’t as great as you thought. They were merely somewhat talented artists who were willing to push the party line every day. So, while they may have had some middling talent, in a free market of ideas and talent, they would have disappeared like snow in April.

You have been duped into thinking that these Top 100 songs, bestselling books, box office smash movies, TV stations, newspaper and magazines actually had earned popular approval and were an accurate reflection of what your fellow Americans admired. Nothing could be further from the truth. The American culture scene is a complete fraud and a scam to manipulate the public’s mind for the benefit of the few power elites who are members of both parties. I reject both the Democrats and the Republicans. 

The purpose of art is enlightenment, understanding, and refining the sensibility of humanity to better appreciate the works of our creator. There, I'm done, for now. Thank you for letting me vent after enduring about thirty some years of complete frustration with the American culture scene.