Oscars versus Joint Session of Congress

Here we have all the members of Congress congregated for this recent joint session:


Here we have all of the biggest movies stars congregated together for the Oscars:


It's not fair to people in Congress that they were born way uglier than movie stars and feel the need to compensate for that through either policy expertise and/or ignorant aggression. But what's more unfair is that the dorks in Congress are mostly lawyers. Lawyers are taught to be detached from their clients and in many ways, Congress people are detached from the humanity to which they supposedly are working.

Actors on the other hand (as well as screenwriters and directors) make it their job to portray the human experience with compassion and accuracy. Sure the movies are a bit over the top sometimes but by and large the art of acting and film making in general is about representing and often elevating humanity to new levels. Congress is about representing constituents but the relationship is far less intimate. And so for all the glitz and glam, Hollywood still manages to be more in touch with the soul of the human experience than the weird people in Congress. In essence, Hollywood is more in touch with reality. And that is why Hollywood is more liberal. For in the words of Stephen Colbert, "reality has a liberal bias."