If they hate us for our freedom, then they must really loathe us for our movies.

I know, I know: Hollywood is a bunch of lefties tilting at windmills that invariably tilt leftward the minute Tinseltown windbags exhale. Southpaw screenwriters and stars are nothing but libs in sheep’s clothing, always anxious to devour your hearts and minds. Redistribution of the wealth is a given. I get it.

I admit there’s some truth to the stereotype. If it weren’t for bleeding hearts Hollywoodies would have no heart at all. The classic examples are “Silkwood,” “Norma Rae,” and “Erin Brockovitch,” movies named after the women who took on the big bad corporation and won. To find a movie that portrays a big corporate dog in a righteous light you have to go see “Seabiscuit,” about a horse–and then sit through liberal voice-overs about the Great Depression set to black-and-white common man footage. Or try Stephen Spielberg’s “Schindler’s List,” whereby it takes a Holocaust so horrible it can’t bring out the best in an industrialist.

Hollywood does lean left. Agreed. But never so far as the Tighty Righties think. The most egregious manifestation of their movie malfeasance was the Hollywood Ten and the concomitant blacklist, when mere attendance at a meeting of a liberal organization could and did cost you your career. Anti-communists in the McCarthy era did their best to keep our nation safe by destroying one of its fundamental freedoms.

Maybe Hollywood does put the “lib” in liberal–but also in the verb “to liberate.”

When critics of the American way decry our democratic freedoms, they will invariably point their billy clubs at our movies. The irony is that on the sexual side our movies are nothing short of tame, a compendium of heavy breathing and occasional nudity that pass for smut in the jihadist world.

In fact, thanks to Jack Valenti, the former Motion Pictures Association of America chieftan, the rating system took the “X” out of sex and left an “X” rating as the movie equivalent of a death sentence. When was the last time you saw an “X” movie? When Linda Lovelace went down for the count?

Violence is another matter, of course, but they don’t hate us for our violence. Violence in the name of Allah is, in fact, all to the greater good when “God is great!” Our sex gives them the willies but are violence is right up their alley.

So Hollywood is not so bad after all, now is it? They hate us for our freedom, but they really love us for (ahem) our mayhem. There’s nothing more entertaining than democracy at work.