I was never a Roseanne watcher. Whenever I did see a little bit of the show she was always berating some man for being a man and spouting some kind of blue collar feminism.\u00a0 So I\u2019d switch the channel.\u00a0 Here we are twenty plus years later and Roseanne is rebooting the show to chronicle the later lives of the fictional blue-collar Conners family.\u00a0 And I hear Roseanne is a Trump voter and supporter.\u00a0 And they say her show has attracted eighteen million viewers.<\/p>\n
Well, all the entertainment pundits are saying the networks will roll out a bunch of blue collar right-wing Trump loving family shows. Yeah, right.\u00a0 Let\u2019s be real.\u00a0 About a year ago the only slightly positively portrayed right-wing character on television was Tim Allen\u2019s Mike Baxter on Last Man Standing.\u00a0 It was a reasonably popular show.\u00a0 And because Trump was elected the show was cancelled. Do I believe somehow they\u2019ve discovered the error of their ways?\u00a0 No.\u00a0 Whatever Hollywood imagines right-wing blue-collar values are will basically be Hollyweird wearing a ballcap or a cowboy hat.\u00a0 I don\u2019t believe Roseanne Barr is any closer to my beliefs now than she was twenty years ago.\u00a0 The only difference is she has been left behind by the precipitous lurch toward insanity that the left\u2019s leading edge has performed in the last ten years.\u00a0 So Hollywood will churn out shows based on benchmarking\u00a0 \u201cModern Family\u201d as the new Ozzie and Harriet and \u201cplayfully\u201d experiment with the exciting idea that Trump voters are unconsciously ready to embrace trans-bathrooms and indoctrinating small children into sexual perversions.<\/p>\n
I look at this breathless discovery of Roseanne\u2019s popularity as the usual two steps forward, one slightly slower step forward that is the default reaction of progressives to right-wing resistance. So if there is any good news in the Roseanne story I guess it\u2019s that they at least still try to make believe they care what we think or what we want to see on TV.\u00a0 Hurray for Hollywood?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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