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Comedian Tim Allen said being a Republican in Hollywood can be difficult because the majority of people in show business tend to be staunchly liberal.

"You gotta be real careful around here, you know. You'll get beat up if you don't believe what everybody believes," Allen told ABC's Jimmy Kimmel.

"This is like 30s Germany," the "Last Man Standing" and "Home Improvement" star said. "I don't know what happened. If you're not part of the group: 'You know what we believe is right', I go 'Well, I might have a problem with that.'"

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Allen, 63, is one of a few known Republican or conservative-leaning actors in Hollywood, the list of which also includes Dennis Miller, Jon Voight, Kelsey Grammer and James Woods.

Allen's political views have occasionally ruffled feathers, like when his current program reportedly edited-out his jokes about President Obama being "a Communist," as well as banter about Hillary Clinton, according to Fox News Radio.

He supported Gov. John Kasich (R-Ohio) in the Republican primary, according to the Independent Journal Review.

Allen also told Kimmel he attended President Trump's inauguration in Washington, and attended a veterans' ball at the time.

He also discussed his concerns about privacy from government surveillance.

"If a government drove by down the street with like a gray sedan with a camera on it, you'd be rioting and going to Washington. But if it's white with emojis and Google on it, 'yay', you're waving at it [while] they're taking pictures of your house."

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Sue-Ann Levy, Toronto Sun Mar 17, 2017

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TORONTO - Is Toronto ground zero for latte-sipping elitists and the Liberal machine poised to paint itself Tory blue in the next provincial race?

A Forum poll, released exclusively to the Toronto Sun, shows that the Progressive Conservative lead in Toronto over the Kathleen Wynne-led Liberals has jumped four percentage points in the last month with 36% of those polled saying theyd vote Tory in the 2018 election, compared to 31% for the Grits.

The poll of 966 Toronto voters from March 8-10 shows the PC tide prevails despite Wynnes attempts to buy back support with her March 1 promise to lower Hydro rates by 25%.

Tory Leader Patrick Brown and his PCs are commanding huge leads in the former North York, York and Etobicoke and are running neck and neck with the Liberals in Scarborough.

The downtown chattering classes and residents of the former East York seem to be the only Liberal holdouts in this latest poll not surprising given the Lib-left grip on downtown and East York wards on Toronto city council. But the NDP is not far behind in both those areas of the city.

Forum president Lorne Bozinoff said the poll numbers show a continuing shift away from the Liberals and if they hold up until the June 2018 election, Wynne and her Liberals would be in big, big trouble in Toronto.

One would expect that Toronto is where the Liberals are the strongest, he said. These are Tory sweep kind of numbers.

To say the Liberals are strong (and have traditionally been strong) in Toronto is an understatement.

I saw it when I ran in the 2009 St. Pauls byelection as a PC candidate against Liberal Eric Hoskins and knocked on doors where residents insisted theyd voted Liberal since the dawn of time and would never change, no matter what.

Save for PC Raymond Chos September 2016 surprise byelection win in ScarboroughRouge River and two NDP ridings, Toronto is a Liberal stranglehold.

All 19 of the remaining 22 seats are held by Liberals no matter how much arrogance and disdain they show towards voters, no matter how much they mortgage our future and no matter how much they ruin health care. And lets not forget how the Liberals have sidelined doctors, kowtowed to their favourite unions and made a mess of most things they deal with most specifically hydro.

I have forever wondered when voters would have enough and perhaps the time has finally come.

Lets be practical however. The election is still more than a year out and it all depends on what Brown does to convince voters (particularly in Toronto) he can win. For far too many, hes still very much an unknown entity.

It also depends on what the Liberals plan to do with their hugely unpopular leader, although there is little strength on the benches and I cant for the life of me think of one cabinet minister whod re-energize their dying fortunes.

Bozinoff said the latest poll numbers reflect a number of things that the Wynne Liberals have not addressed (other than with the latest Band-Aid) including hydro rates and the real estate bubble that has made homes unaffordable in Toronto.

He said people are just generally tired of seeing the same politicians on TV all with the baggage of 14 years in government.

Theres also the Trump effect. Bozinoff said Wynne is just not connecting well with the average Ontarian and the daily issues they face.

The poll showed another interesting connection between party affiliation and who would vote for Toronto mayor.

Those more likely to support the PCs are 45-64 years of age, male, wealthier and would vote for Doug Ford for Toronto mayor. Liberal supporters in this poll are 65-plus, transit riders and would support John Tory.

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Actor Tim Allen bashed Hollywood liberals and their intolerant elitism during an appearance Jimmy Kimmel Live Thursday night.

Allen, who stars on the hit ABC sitcom Last Man Standing as a conservative dad, is a conservative off the set, too. He discussed with Kimmel what its like to be an outspoken conservative in the sea of liberalism that is Hollywood during a conservation about attending President Donald Trumps inauguration in January.

Youve gotta be real careful around here. You get beat up if you dont believe what everybody believes, Allen said about living in Hollywood.

This is like 30s Germany. I dont know what happened, he explained. If youre not part of the group, you know what we believe is right, I go, Well, I might have a problem with that.'

Speaking of Trumps inauguration, Allen went on to say:

This government does stuff big. Ive never been to anything like that. Just so many people, and when they show up, you know, the ex-president gets in a helicopter and theres jets and Marines taking him this way and theres parades, but it looks like a Cadillac parade, everything was just rows of Cadillacs. My kids were going, Is this the parade? Its like black Cadillac after black Cadillac and then a tractor.

During the rest of his interview, Allen lamented about the sharp political divide between Democrats and Republicans in America while also discussing with Kimmel what its like to live in the age of surveillance.

Not only is Allen one of the few Hollywood superstars to be outspoken about his conservative political views, Allen is one of the few actors to have positive things to say about Trump during last years campaign.

He also bashed Hollywood actors as hypocrites during the election season. With the exception of just a few, Hollywood overwhelmingly supported Hillary Clinton.

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This is, as has been widely noted, a bleak time for enlightenment values. In the face of a populist tide, a feeling of pessimism has gripped many liberals about the ability of logic, reason and evidence to influence the wider public.

Discussion often turns to psychological research showing that when ordinary people are presented with facts in the context of a political debate it has little impact. Theres growing chatter about a backfire effect, where rebutting misconceptions actually serves to entrench falsehoods, perhapsby making the myths more salient. Thus, fact-checking exercises by the media become, at best, as a waste of time (left-liberal comfort food in the words of Rob Ford of Manchester University). At worst, theyre counterproductive.

Technology doesnt seem to be helping. Social media helps people to herd themselves into informational silos, where they only hear what they want to hear, and inflates ideological bubbles. Traditional sources of authority are no longer respected. Were warned that elites telling people they are wrong is patronising. Some argue that describing overtly racist opinions and policies as racist only serves to drive the alienatedmassesfurther into the populist corral.

So whats to be done? How can progressive politicians and experts get across the facts behind politicised subjects, whether it is the economic impact of immigration, the circumstances of welfare recipients, the science behind climate change, the safety of vaccines or the overall benefits of free trade? How can we ensure that political decisions are taken and votes cast not on the basis of prejudice and myth, but with at least some regard to evidence and serious analysis?

Perhaps liberals should forget facts and instead to go with the populist flow. In this view of the world the best hope for progressives lies in pandering to popular feelings but trying to steer the ship of policy in a vaguely progressive direction.

But this prescription is dangerous. When gross fallacies in public debate go unchallenged the fallacies dont die out, they spread. The cancer metastasises. A culture of anti-intellectualism is liable to be abreeding ground for bigotry and intolerance. And in any case the populist wolves are likely to prove rather better at this game than the progressive sheep in wolves clothing. Moreover, theres a better way. There are other academic studies that point to ways that liberals can try to turn the tide.

Christina Boswell and James Hampshire have highlighted how the public discourse on immigration in Germany was transformed between 2000 and 2008. Social Democratic politicians used familiar arguments about the economic benefits of immigration. But they did this alongside a campaign to promote positive narratives about immigration and its place in the countrys history to counter entrenched perceptions of Germany being kein Einwanderunglsand (not a country of immigration). This twin approach largely succeeded in changing attitudes, flowering in the generous position taken by Angela Merkels Christian Democrat government towards Syrian refugees in the summer of 2015.

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By contrast in the UK, at the same time, Labour began to talk up British jobs for British workers and never seriously rebutted the dominant and dismal narrative of the tabloid press about immigration being an economic burden and culturally corrosive, arguably helping to set the scene for the current bout of self-harming Brexit-related xenophobia.

Eric Kaufmann of Birkbeck College London points out that the strength of far-right parties in Europe is roughly correlated with the size of a nation's Muslim community. But polling shows that Europeans are often wildly misinformed about the rate of Muslim immigration and fertility.

Public information campaigns might well help. Research by Alexis Grigorieff, Christopher Roth and Diego Ubfal showed that when a large sample of people in the US and Europe were told the actual share of immigrants in the country rather than relying on their own often grossly exaggerated estimates they became less likely to argue that there were too many incomers. The facts do, it seems, get traction.

There are other sources of hope. In a recent essay Tim Harford of the Financial Times has highlighted research which suggests that a way to open peoples minds to evidence and bypass politically-motivated reasoning is to appeal to their sense of non-political scientific curiosity. Its not simple, but it can be done.

All of this suggests that a counsel of despair about the persuasive potential of facts and evidence is unwarranted; people can still be amenable to reason. Progressive politicians, researchers and liberal activists should not be laying down their enlightenment weapons in the face of angry and destructive populism, but rather wielding them more effectively.

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