THIS JUST IN. NBC’s Parks and Recreation Was Not Popular:

In other words, Parks and Rec was not a “popular” show as the word is commonly understood (“The Big Bang Theory” is “popular”; NCIS is “popular”), but it was “popular with younger, urban, professional, mostly liberal types.” Yuppies, in other words. Parks and Rec was a show beloved by a narrow slice of yuppies, and not really anyone else.

Hence the URL of Sonny Bunch’s article at the Washington Free Beacon: “you-live-in-a-bubble-you-precious-things-you.” But why was it beloved within its tiny leftwing urban bubble?

Leslie Knope, the tinpot dictator of Pawnee who thought it was her business to tell the people what size sodas they should drink and successfully turned a vacant lot into useless park land where a job-creating burger franchise could have gone. Parks and Rec (which I enjoyed quite a bit!) was always an ad for bigger and better government. The show’s final insult was turning hardcore libertarian Ron Swanson into an employee of the federal government, closing his run with a shot of his smiling face as he worked his new gig on federal land. Some might think this outcome absurd. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Sister.*

How politically correct did TV become over the past decade? It’s so bad that even Norman Lear, who arguably did more than anyone in Hollywood to drive the industry to the left in the 1970s, can now see it.