In yet another example of Hollywood elites blaming everyday Americans for problems they created, actor Timothee Chalamet used a CNN town hall to scold audiences for supposedly abandoning movies and opera, while completely ignoring the woke ideology that has poisoned American entertainment.
During the CNN event with Matthew McConaughey, Chalamet lamented that "the once-great American pastime of going to the movies is in real danger of losing its cultural centrality." But here's what this privileged actor won't admit: families didn't abandon theaters – Hollywood abandoned families.
For years, we've watched as the entertainment industry force-fed Americans a steady diet of radical leftist propaganda disguised as entertainment. From gender ideology pushed on children to anti-American narratives that trash our values, is it any wonder that patriotic families stopped handing over their hard-earned dollars?
"I admire people who go on a talk show and go, 'Hey, we gotta keep movie theaters alive,'" Chalamet said, apparently unaware of the irony of making this statement on CNN.
This is rich coming from an industry that spent the Trump years producing one anti-conservative hit piece after another, then acts surprised when Middle America stops buying tickets. They turned award shows into political rallies, lectured us about climate change while flying private jets, and told working-class Americans they were bigots for wanting secure borders.
Meanwhile, President Trump's second term is already showing what happens when you put America First instead of woke ideology first. Conservative filmmakers and content creators are finding new platforms and audiences hungry for entertainment that doesn't hate their values.
The real question isn't why audiences abandoned Hollywood – it's why Hollywood abandoned the audiences that made it great in the first place. When you spend decades insulting half the country, don't be shocked when they take their entertainment dollars elsewhere.
Maybe instead of blaming Americans for the culture's decline, these Hollywood elites should look in the mirror and ask themselves: What role did we play in destroying what we now claim to want to save?