Hanlon's Razor can easily explain the left's popularity in many regards. Stop a university student and ask them their political affiliation and they'll likely tell you they're on the left. Begin asking them questions about why they believe what they believe and you'll find that the more details you ask about their beliefs the more they start to stumble in explaining themselves. It's not because they're stupid, they're just ignorant, and their environment hasn't done them any favors. 

The stupid ones are the ones who get angry that you're not in full belief with them and start screaming, crying, or even attacking. 

I say this because I've speculated that many people in the entertainment industry are merely ignorant, not stupid. To be sure, they exist, and I could deliver a truckload of names in the entertainment industry that I think should never be given access to social media again. 

But I'd venture to guess that if you were to sit down with quite a few celebrities and begin having an honest conversation with them about politics, you'd find they'd be very surprised to learn some of the facts you know like the back of your hand. We saw a glimmer of this after Hamas attacked Israel last October when some celebrities seemed blindsided by the antisemitism among the left. 

(READ: Political Ignorance Isn't Something to Get Angry With People About)

Which brings me to Bob Iger. According to Bounding Into Comics, Iger seems to believe he's actually getting Disney to drift away from political messaging, which is weird because we can totally see that it's getting worse right in front of our faces: 

“I’ve been preaching this for a long time at the company before I left and since I came back that our number one goal is to entertain,” said Iger. “I think, but the term woke is thrown around rather liberally. No, no pun intended in that regard. I think a lot of people don’t even understand really what it means. The bottom line is that infusing messaging as a sort of a number one priority in our films and TV shows is not what we’re up to.”

“They need to be entertaining and look, we’re the Disney company can have a positive impact on the world whether it’s, you know, fostering acceptance and understanding of you know, people of all different types, great,” he continued. “But, generally speaking, we need to be entertainment, an entertainment first company and I’ve worked really hard to do that.”

It's a weird thing to blatantly lie about and yet here is Iger blatantly lying his clean head off. 

It could be a way of gaslighting, not just audiences, but investors. He clearly has many of them fooled solely based on the fact that he survived the siege of Nelson Peltz and Trian Partners thanks to a shareholder vote. 

After thinking about it for a little bit longer it started to dawn on me that Hanlon's Razor could easily apply here. 

It's entirely possible that Iger isn't lying to us...he just doesn't understand what the hell he's talking about. 

Iger doesn't seem to understand what wokeness is, or that many of the positions and messages his company is dishing out are heavily politically influenced to the left. He doesn't get that resistance to the drek that Disney is churning out isn't based on sexism or racism, but a pushback from an intrusion of a political ideology. 

Iger might very well believe that what Disney is doing with its storylines that focus on DEI-based beliefs is actually a good thing. It's also possible that he has people in his ear selling him that nonsense all day. 

To be clear, this doesn't make Iger look any better. If you're watching your company steadily decline and your audience is telling you why, the first move as a CEO is to stop doing that thing. Iger isn't doing that. 

That makes Iger stupid. Then again, I've held that Iger is just a bad CEO on a base level for quite some time. 

But it does lead me to question many who identify as leftist as to whether or not they even know what it is they're backing here. They push DEI with reckless abandon in full belief that they're doing a good thing, not stopping to consider that what they're doing is actually very racist and, in some industries, even dangerous. 

They don't see DEI as "political." They don't understand its Marxist origins. They don't see what we can plainly understand is obvious. 

Some of these people don't seem to be evil, but they sure do seem stupid.