They have not forgotten that. They HATE that.
ANYTHING not relentlessly pushing their agenda must either be destroyed or coopted. Nothing can be allowed outside of leftism.
That is why they are going after these "cultural icons." They will either turn them to their own purposes or destroy them. Either one is a win for them. (And, yes, burn a pile of cash doing it too, but they have money to burn and since they "torment us for our own good [they] will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.β
Years ago, my mother used to watch the TV show
Designing Women. She stopped when the show began to get "preachy" and after it was cancelled, she saw an interview where the producer said she HAD to make it preachy, because people kept voting the wrong way, e.g., for Republicans.
And of course, as M*A*S*H began to become preachy, it became less funny, and ratings declined. (I found it was easy to figure out when an episode was directed by Alan Alda, because it sucked.) Even Paul Harvey commented on the decline of comedy on the show.
It's been decades since I watched
Saturday Night Live, because it's been decades since it was funny. And I haven't tuned in to the
Tonight Show since Leno left. (And Leno was no Johnny Carson.) Each case, the shows became relentlessly left wing, and worse,
unfunny. I was able to laugh when Johnny Carson played Reagan, because he could poke fun at someone in a comedic way; today's shows are just plain mean spirited.
And . . . C.S. Lewis was right about people who torment us for "our own good" . . . time to send in the robber barons!