Hollywood Politics Quotes
Sinclair was a writer who had written about some of the worst scandals in American politics, leaned toward socialized democracy, and decided to run as a reform candidate in California where he lived. He won the Democratic primary easily even though he had no money, political experience, or backing. He terrified the Republicans who ran one of the dirtiest campaigns in American History to defeat him spending more money than in any election up to then including the Presidential elections. Rogers, who did not usually support individual politicians, made fun of them all, but he thought that Sinclair would be a good political leader. Sinclair lost, but it was close.
Hollywood was actually very diverse but very tolerant. Hoover, an intolerant racist himself, saw the encouragement of civil rights for Blacks as support of Communism because the Communist Party made a major issue over American Racism. Most Communists were also opposed to racial discrimination, but most of those advocating an end to discrimination were not communists although Southern Politicians almost always claimed that they were.
