No. of Recommendations: 1
And more:
3. The left is bewildered that it turns out that the majority of people hate their mentally-ill, malignant guts and they depend more than is mentally healthy on Prophets and Priests and Witches in the media to reassure them that despite losing elections and being increasingly -- I love this -- canceled, they're really quite popular. They tune in to Saturday Night Live not for laughs, but for the communion of a religious sermon. Losing Stephen Colbert feels to them as a Christian might feel when a church gets demolished and replaced by a Wal-Mart. Or a mosque. It hurts.
4. Although I doubt most lefties are mentally fit enough to understand this, I think many do have an inkling -- a fear -- that communism can only advance through mind-control and coercion, and that they cannot possibly win without massive forced contributions to their cult through NGOs and of course capture of formerly "elite" institutions of ideological brainwashing. They know they need to take money from normal, healthy people through taxation and deliver it to the left's propaganda operations if they're to have a chance. Any loss of an NGO or stupid TV show is a grievous wound to their propaganda operations.
5. This is a bit of a repetition, but we have to remember that starting in 2008, when Obama threatened corporate leaders that "I'm the only thing standing between you and the pitchforks," corporations were bullied into re-making themselves into Social Justice production companies. The left deploys the creepy euphemism "Whole of Society solutions," which means, simply, "we will bully all institutions and corporations into forcing our political will on a powerless public." "Whole of Society" is really just the old fascist dream of uniting governmental power with corporate power to make sure that every citizen is constantly under the threat of punishment from the left for political deviation. A government in the US can't fire people from non-government jobs for just opposing the left -- but a corporation dominated by the left can fire employees for being insufficiently devoted to the Great Socialist Cause.
The new owner of Paramount and CBS is known to be a Trump supporter. They feel this loss acutely, and fear that other corporations will throw off leftwing control.
And finally:
6. The left is made up overwhelmingly of marginal and unaccomplished people who know that they are failures but reassure themselves that they're Secret Winners because they belong to a culture which features successful people. In other words, they ignore their own personal failures and focus on the victories of the more-accomplished idiots of their gutter culture to convince themselves that they're really accomplished themselves. They have no personal victories; for them, another left-winger landing a prestigious late-night talk show host gig is really their own victory. And therefore, one of their cultural avatars losing feels like a personal loss, too.
This is a major driver of allegiance to the left. The left is filled with extremely stupid and uneducated people who believe they're smart and educated because other leftwingers dominate the academy, for example. They will literally claim to be intellectuals themselves because other people identifying as left-wing are intellectuals.
90% of the attraction of the left is the promise made to simpletons and failures that if they believe hard enough in the cult, all of the accomplishments of higher-ranking cult members are their own accomplishments.
