Which of your favourite musician/actor/celebrity is a Trump supporter?

[LanternWaste]

9. I try to avoid the politicals of any artist

I try to avoid the political bent of any artist (unless of course, politics is in fact, part and parcel of their body of work) to better prevent my own biases from bridging the divide between the art and the artist.

If that happens (i.e., I begin to conflate the art and the artist), my biases tend to get the best of me, and I'll begin judging their work on some stance wholly irrelevant to their work.

I don't want to dismiss an artist or author (or simply one of their ideas) simply because they hold a position too far to my right or left. If I did, I'd have to reduce the collective works of Aristotle or Euripides as invalid because they believed slavery was part of the natural order of things.

So I laugh in ignorant bliss at a Bob Hope Road movie or a Cary Grant slapstick. I watch with apt attention as David Lynch propels his narrative along via emotive reaction rather than dialog. And I blithely argue to myself that I really believe Patricia Heaton did a better job in her work on The Goodbye Girl than Marsha Mason (for the record, yes... I do)

If I didn't separate the art from the artist, I'd be a bored, myopic and more thoughtless than otherwise.