Where do you turn for entertainment free of the ideology you despise?

Television

Movies were a popular escape from the cares and woes of the Great Depression. Just five cents could buy a brief reprieve in a theater where audiences laughed in mutual appreciation of the antics of the Keystone Kops and Laurel and Hardy among others. Sadly, there is little escape today from the unrelenting assault of the liberal/progressives who dominate Hollywood and the television producers. Fortunately, one show on CBS, Blue Bloods, provides a more rational approach to storytelling. The October 24th episode, Loose Lips, was a silver-lined example. The granddaughter of the police commissioner is caught venting her frustrations on the Internet over a Fascist school teacher and is denied admission to Rutgers. The following minute-and-a-half clip contains the scene where she returns to the classroom with her mother to apologize to the teacher.

Sadly, the high school teacher portrayed in this scene is representative of many American teachers and college professors. In a later scene, she targets the police commissioner's granddaughter during a class extolling the virtues of progressivism and castigating the authorities like the girl's mother and grandfather. Her sanctimony is sweetened by the iconic portrait of Ernesto “Che” Guevara peering over her shoulder. No one ever abused authority more rapaciously than the hero of progressives and misguided children everywhere.

Guevara was oft quoted in his disdain for proletarian justice. He had no need of courts or legal rights and procedures as he sent countless victims to their execution or murdered them with his own hands in a fit of pique. Many of his most ardent admirers would be surprised to learn that Che reserved his most virulent condemnation for young people (he thought teens were lazy), gays, artists and performers, and revolutionaries who were not revolutionary enough for his taste (those who disagreed with him).

Che Guevara is a revered icon among this class

Interestingly, the mother's response in this scene of Blue Bloods was remarkably restrained. She is, after all, attempting to help her daughter survive this teacher and gain admittance to the best college possible. Therein lies the problem. Conservatives often find themselves held hostage for the liberals who dominate academia. They bite their tongues and bide their time until free of intellectual bullying.

A friend of mine was not as circumspect. His stepson had been expelled from an expensive private school for venting his frustration in class (in the days prior to social media). He called the teacher “a stupid son of a bitch” in front of the student body.

The teacher had been lecturing on the First Crusade and regaled the students with the erroneous fact that the People's Crusade, as it was popularly known, achieved a great victory over the Jews and Muslims at Constantinople. They hadn't won a victory. They had murdered Christians who left the city to welcome their brethren in Christ from the west. The boy had politely interrupted to correct the teacher, and volunteered to retrieve a text from the library to prove his assertion. The teacher refused to discuss the issue, going so far as to humiliate the boy in front of his classmates.

My friend explained that the boy's conduct was unacceptable regardless of the teacher's error and behavior. The boy agreed to apologize to the teacher in front of the class and my friend made the arrangements.

After the apology was delivered and the boy was readmitted to the class, my friend took the teacher aside and offered some texts that he had purchased as gifts for the teacher so that the scholar could correct his understanding of the history. The teacher refused them without grace.

My friend was a voice actor. He possessed a fine, booming baritone voice that he could wield with romantic gentleness or in vicious assault. He chose the latter form as he announced in tones that rang throughout the school, “He's right. You are an ignorant son of a bitch!” and withdrew his stepson from the school.

Of course, the producers of Blue Bloods could not have included that in their script. They restrained themselves and delivered a believable portrayal of a teacher who practices intellectual bullying in her classroom much as is commonly found these days, and students and their parents who cannot fight back without suffering consequences. I have never seen nor heard of any other entertainment media being so honest.