Playwright and director David Mamet knows exactly when he got “kicked out of the left,” and it involved efforts at civility.
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Tackling topics of elitism and media manipulation, the award-winning writer behind the play “Glengarry Glen Ross” continued a promotional circuit for his new book, “The Disenlightenment: Politics, Horror, and Entertainment.” This included an appearance on the “Brian Kilmeade Show” where he explained his ousting from the left as he discovered his beliefs about the party were “false.”
“I didn’t know any Republicans, so I didn’t understand what conservatism was. And then I got kicked out of the left, and I started researching what the constitutional conservatism was about, and I got very, very interested and very excited about it — and here I am now,” he told host Brian Kilmeade Thursday as Mamet marked some 25 years since he’d been ostracized by the left.
Mamet explained that the catalyst had been in promoting the play “November” by referring to himself as a “brain-dead liberal” while calling for civility in an article, which resulted in him being maligned by corporate media outlets.
Amid efforts at doing his own homework on worldviews, the writer explained, “Well, I discovered my conservative beliefs because I discovered everything I thought I believed about the Democratic Party was false. That the Democratic Party had always been the party of — first off slavery, and then of segregation, then of Jim Crow, and then affirmative action was just an extension of that.”
Referring to them as the “party of elites,” Mamet went on, “And the Democratic Party was not representing the working people of this country.”
“America is self-correcting again, as we saw in the election. And the red states are thriving,” he added, following the election of President Donald Trump and the down-ballot outcomes.
Mamet also criticized the cultural shift in entertainment that sought to force-feed stories about social consciousness. “Black people are people too, gay people are people too, but the problem with that is everybody knows that. So, we don’t want to come to a theater or a movie to get lectured to, right? Our wives will do that — so in order to keep their place, the idea of a meritocracy crumbled in the media, so the awards and safety, or the illusion … was awarded to those who could scream loudest ‘I’m good’ …”
The latest dig at the left was relatively tame compared to an appearance on “Jesse Watters Primetime” earlier in the week, where he made an example out of the Democratic Party by likening it to a family with a pedophile member.
“Everything in the Democrats’ playbook is denial, which takes all of a person’s mental energy,” he told Fox News host Jesse Watters. “It’s no different than a dysfunctional family. If [there is a family where] there is a pedophile, the problem is not that there is a pedophile, but the problem for everyone in the family is they have to deny that that is a pedophile. Because if they face it, the family as they know it is going to fall apart, and they don’t know what comes next.”
Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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