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Tim Allen on What it's Like to be a Conservative in Hollywood

<p>You might know him from the 1990&rsquo&semi;s sitcom <em>Home Improvement<&sol;em>&comma; from the current ABC show <em>Last Man Standing<&sol;em>&comma; or as the voice of Buzz Lightyear&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>This week&comma; 63-year-old successful comedic actor Tim Allen spoke with Jimmy Kimmel about what it&rsquo&semi;s like to be one of the few conservatives in Hollywood&period; &ldquo&semi;You gotta be real careful around here&comma;&rdquo&semi; said Allen&period; &ldquo&semi;You get beat up if you don&rsquo&semi;t believe what everybody believes&period;&rdquo&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&ldquo&semi;This is like &lsquo&semi;30s Germany&period; I don&rsquo&semi;t know what happened&comma;&rdquo&semi; he said&period; &ldquo&semi;I&rsquo&semi;m a comedian&comma; I like going &lbrack;off&rsqb; on both sides&period;&rdquo&semi;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Allen&comma; who identifies as a &ldquo&semi;fiscal conservative&comma;&rdquo&semi; once compared the Clintons to &ldquo&semi;herpes&period;&rdquo&semi; He endorsed GOP candidate John Kasich in the presidential election&comma; but turned out to attend Trump&rsquo&semi;s inauguration in January&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&ldquo&semi;Give that guy &lbrack;Trump&rsqb; the roads&comma; bridges&comma; infrastructure&comma; power grid &ndash&semi; just have him fix that sh&ast;t for four years&period; He&rsquo&semi;s good at that&period; And he&rsquo&semi;s a businessman so he understands how debt load works&comma;&rdquo&semi; said Allen last January&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In&nbsp&semi;November&comma; he slammed Hollywood liberals for bullying Trump supporters&colon; &ldquo&semi;What I find odd in Hollywood is that they didn&rsquo&semi;t like Trump because he was a bully&period; But if you had any kind of inkling that you were for Trump&comma; you got bullied for doing that&hellip&semi;it gets a little hypocritical to me&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>When asked about his main concerns for the current state of the country&comma; Allen spoke about the shocking level of government surveillance and online tracking&period; &ldquo&semi;They know way too much about us&comma;&rdquo&semi; he said about Amazon&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&ldquo&semi;If the government drove down the street in a gray sedan with a camera on it&comma; you&rsquo&semi;d be rioting&comma; going to Washington&comma;&rdquo&semi; said Allen&period; &ldquo&semi;But if it&rsquo&semi;s white&comma; with emojis and &lsquo&semi;Google&rsquo&semi; on it&comma; &lsquo&semi;Yay&excl; You&rsquo&semi;re waving at it&excl; They&rsquo&semi;re taking pictures of your house&excl;&rdquo&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Hollywood has a long history of shunning conservatives&comma; and I admire Tim Allen for speaking his mind&period; Here are a few more conservative celebrities who made it big&colon; Adam Sandler&comma; Bruce Willis&comma; Heather Locklear&comma; Drew Carey&comma; Stephen Baldwin&comma; Mel Gibson&comma; and Pat Sajak&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Editor&&num;8217&semi;s note<&sol;strong>&colon; With all of the political messaging and political correctness coming from the people and the work of Hollywood&comma; its good to know at least a few big stars have some common sense&period; I just wish they would speak up more&comma; like Tim Allen&period; If you know the series <em>The Last Man Standing&comma;<&sol;em> you know it frequently has a conservative message&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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