Adam Baldwin - Leftist, Libertarian, Conservative, Or Neocon

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Adam Baldwin is an actor who has been in TV shows like Chuck, The X-Files, and Firefly. In the past couple years, he’s become an increasingly outspoken critic of Obama while becoming supportive of neoconservative ideas. He knew Andrew Breitbart for a minute before Andrew passed away, and even blogged for Andrew’s website.

What is this guy’s sociopolitical paradigm and how mature is it?

According to his own tweet, Adam Baldwin was a lifelong registered Democrat as recently as July 2010. However, less than 3 months later in this BlogTalkRadio program he starts referring to himself as a “small government conservative libertarian”. HollywoodRepublican.net has him listed as a “Libertarian”. He’s the 3rd person listed here:

How much of a typical left-winger was Baldwin when he was “formerly” a collectivist.? In a “pre-conversion” interview, contained in a bio about Kubrick, Baldwin described his left-wing views as such:

“I’m one of those bleeding-heart liberals and any left-wing statement against war is something I agree with.”

Any statement against war? Ironically, he’s now in agreement with the “conservative” echo chamber statements promoting war. His war perspective has flipped a 180, but his hive mentality hasn’t. Sounds like the Trotskyists who became the first neoconservatives, doesn’t it?

How long does it really take for someone to traverse a paradigm shift when the existing one is so deeply engrained and is a polar opposite? One’s confirmatory bias and attitude polarization can’t rewire overnight. However, as a personal observation, I’ve noticed that confirmatory bias and attitude polarization seem to exist in exaggerated degrees in people who’ve shifted from “left” to “right”. Is the extreme confirmatory bias in these “former” leftists an overcompensation for feeling insecure in the new paradigm? Experience would suggest considering this a reasonable possibility.

These days, Baldwin spends much of his Twitter time attacking leftists (guilty conscience, Brutus?). But he also attacks libertarians and lifelong conservatives over their lack of support for people like Romney or things like favorite nations (something our founders were solidly against). Most of what he presents on Twitter is typical neoconservative-influenced echo chamber Jingoistic tripe. This is a very small sampling:

Look, it’s a QFE tweet! Remember when Bush said that God told him to “[I must] go get the Palestinians their state” (this is a QFE for Adam and his neocon pals)?

Ah, the “Mission Accomplished!” speech.

This one is funny because it’s a year after his “conversion”. How’d that Romney landslide work out, “conservative libertarian”?

Oops! Looks like someone doesn’t know how left-wing Israel is:

This one about Keynesianism is especially funny considering his Romney (a huge Keynesian) slobbering:

Alas, Baldwin’s failed prediction about Romney’s “impending victory” (Baldwin is known to delete his tweets - can’t imagine why he’d delete this one, but this tweet is preserved via this screencap!):

Obviously, based on the information above, the political neophyte has a long way to go in understanding what conservatism is and whom to support in that cause. If there’s a political maturity here, it’s hard to ascertain. He’s been a bleeding-heart liberal, a Libertarian, “conservative libertarian”, and most recently a rabid supporter (a personal story about this later) of neocons and Keynesians. All this ideological churn has occurred in the span of a few short years.

If Baldwin is indeed a conservative, he’s still got his training wheels on and is making conservatism look bad in the process, because people give what he says more credibility than he deserves. Why? His celeb status.

I’d recommend that Adam stfu, stfd, and give himself another several years before he continues to opine about what conservatism is and isn’t. Until then, stick with acting. As we’ll present in a future post, Baldwin likes to recommend things to people without any solicitation, so he’d probably appreciate unsolicited this recommendation.

 

  • http://twitter.com/RubyRedVette AmyB

    Could it be that Obama has brought his party so far left that actual Democrats are lost? Today, as I was observing more in-fighting on my timeline, it occurred to me that most of the so-called Republicans are really the Democrats of 10-15 years ago. There seems to be a group of, I call them Anti-Obama’s, who hate Obama so much they latch onto any theme and associate themselves with the group they think best represents that theme. Like being for small government so labeling themselves as Libertarians, when they really have no concept of what Libertarianism is.

    Why, just today I was informed by a so-called Republican that Conservatism is synonymous with Evangelism, and if I didn’t know that, I had no idea what Conservatism really is.

    God help us.

    • http://twitter.com/onegoodnathan onegoodnathan

      To me, left and right tags have become so diluted by D’s and R’s that who effing knows anymore. I really see no difference between Obama and Bush, or basically any President since FDR. Theyre all warmongers, foreign and economic policy interventionists, keynesians, and statists. The trumped up wars, govt growth, and economic bubbles are just passed along from admin to admin with some moderate tweaking along the way. ‘conservatives’ who rail on Obama, voted for Romney, and defend Bush are the biggest intellectual morons in my book. Putting the rhetoric aside, all their policy varies by about 3 degrees.

      and I agree, I observe neo-con statists, who voted for Romney mind you, now trying to co-opt and ultimately debase terms like libertarian and classical liberalism.

      Just my opinion

  • James

    Conservatism is different things to different people. I don’t think you make the rules, son.

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