>>2903863Politics in the public, non-academic sphere are based more on projection of peoples' own complexes than anything they actually have researched or learned. It's not that art is always political. It's that art will always make a statement to a viewer, often times without the author intending to make one at all.
Right wingers often treat liberalism as stupidity and a young and foolish person's angst, symptom of their freedom from responsibility and lack of economic knowledge. They tend to, themselves, be religious people from modest (if not outright miserable) backgrounds, and have little or no formal education beyond high school. Your average degree-holder is more likely to be a liberal than a conservative. Whatever else you may wish to say, they're not stupid.
Likewise, liberals tend to treat conservatism as a vicious and cruel attack on the less-fortunate, fueled by irrational anger in the face of adversity. One need only look at the last few months of news coverage from the US to see where the projection here lies.
