Everybody’s buzzing about a movie that aired on Showtime over the weekend that portrayed the U.S. war dead as zombies who have come back to life in order to vote President Bush out of office. I watched it over the weekend, and it’s one of the dumbest movies I’ve ever seen. But it’s too easy to get offended at the left’s latest effort to demonstrate that they only care about our troops (or dead New Orleanians, for that matter) when they can be used as props against the administration.

Instead, I took this as an opportunity to try to understand how Hollywood’s political worldview got so warped. For instance, in this film, the Karl Rove character brags about selling the war on “horses*** and elbow grease.” The Republicans conspire to steal an election by rigging votes in Ohio — something that many on the left believe actually happened in 2004. And at one point, administration goons actually kidnap and threaten to kill the Cindy Sheehan character. The Village Voice, echoing many reviews I’ve read, wrote, “The nuttiest attitudes the film ascribes to its ruthless Republicans are scarcely more extreme than anything Dick Cheney or Karl Rove has been credited with.”

They actually believe this stuff!

Which got me thinking about the nature of Hollywood. It’s a left-wing echo chamber. Conservative viewpoints are encountered rarely if ever. Yet there are many more scientologists in Hollywood than in the general population. So if you informed someone in Hollywood that you were a scientologist, the reaction might be, “Oh, ok.” But if you told that same person you were conservative, the reaction would be, “Oh, how strange.” In other words, the opposite of how someone outside of Hollywood would react.

But now imagine this: Scientologists have won the presidency and both houses of Congress and are pretty much running the country. Wouldn’t you be freaked out? Me too. But that’s exactly how these poor Hollywood liberals feel! In Hollywood, conservatism is much, much weirder than scientology. That’s why they’ve gone nuts, to the point where you have Hollywood directors saying things like, “This is a horror story because most of the characters are Republicans.” We fear what we don’t understand.