“People Need a Passport to Come Down Here.”
Individuals very rarely have the courage to walk out their convictions in the face of the reality of the consequences of their choices.
This is even more evident when organizations, which are conglomerations of individuals with their own motives, needs, and even convictions, have to walk out their convictions in the face of losing revenues.
Into this mix steps governments, instituted among men, to act in the best interest of the voters who voted for them–and make laws based on those interests.
As contradictory as they may be.
Why am I writing in this high-handed way?
Well, the State of Georgia recently passed a “heartbeat” bill. Basically, what the bill says is that if a fetus has a heartbeat, the fetus can’t be aborted.
The majority of the people of Georgia voted for representatives who passed this bill.
And for the governor who signed it.
The majority of the people of Georgia did not vote for the response that happened afterward to the film and television industry of Georgia from its users (i.e. Progressive film and television development companies).
Or, at least what was threatened to happen to the film and television industry.
Revenues Taste Better than a Georgia Peach
The Georgia Film Commission offers tax incentives (up to 30% in some cases) to film and television projects that shoot in the state.
The majority of the people of Georgia (presumably) also voted for this tax break to the Hollywood film and television industry.
But, the Progressive left can’t thread a needle.
So, the non-celebrities and average film workers from Georgia will be made to care.
The State of Georgia will be made to bend the knee.
So, when the heartbeat bill was passed by the same Georgia state government that also granted 30 % back in tax incentives, actors from Alyssa Milano all the way to film productions such as The Walking Dead had to make a decision.
Do we want to walk out the courage of our progressive convictions, or do we want to…well…not?
Fifty Laboratories of Freedom
Big corporate organizations have pulled this kind of nonsense before, most notably, the NCAA and the NBA tried to flex their amateur (and professional) sports muscles against North Carolina (and a few other states) when the people of those states passed laws that the Progressives didn’t like around… well… you can go search for what yourself.
Alyssa Milano, whose Netflix show Insatiable films in Georgia, apparently, declared a “sex strike” until the bill was repealed and the AMC Networks and Warner Media threatened to pull their productions out of Georgia.
But, let’s look at the—truncated—list of productions—led by Progressive sounding media corporations—happening in Georgia this year:
- Stranger Things
- American Soul Season 2 (TV show)
- Anti-Life (indie film)
- Battle Box (game show)
- Black Lightning Season 3 (TV show)
- Brockmire Season 4 (TV show)
- Charming the Hearts of Men (Indie Film)
- Coming 2 America (studio film)
- Conjuring 3 (studio film)
- Couples Court with Cutlers (reality show)
- Deadly Cult (investigative show)
- Disappearance of the Millbrook Twins (investigative show)
- Dish Nation (reality show)
- Dwight in Shining Armor Season 2 (TV show)
- Dynasty Season 3 (TV Show)
- Electric Jesus (indie film)
- Fear Street (studio film)
- Hillbilly Elegy (studio film)
- Ozark Season 3 (TV show)
…and there are like 30 more film and tv productions in production in and around the ATL and the wilds of Georgia if you want to go look them up.
On a serious note, these Progressive film companies don’t understand how federalism works.
So, here’s an explanation from the Founding Fathers, who wrote the, y’know, Constitution: If you don’t like the laws in a particular state, you are free to take your toys, your sets, your computer effects, and your loud, Progressive, mouthy employees (mostly award-winning actors) and leave that state
And go to a high tax one that’s loudly Progressive and running out of cash.
Like NY.
Or California.
But don’t lecture the same audience who pays to see your actors sing and dance (y’know, the ones who voted for the governor and the legislature that wrote the heartbeat bill, passed it, and signed it), about what policies, rules, and laws they can pass, while taking advantage of the laws, and regulations that “work” for your bottom-line revenues.
I guess that we should take the words of the immortal Wu-Tang Clan seriously: Cash, does indeed, rule everything around us.
Dolla, Dolla, bill y’all!!!
