Tony Seruga@TonySeruga
Drew Carey publicly attacked Spencer Pratt’s LA mayoral campaign on Threads (May 2026), calling him a “serial scammer without a soul or moral compass” and urging voters not to support him.
However, Carey did not explicitly endorse or name any specific candidate in the post or related coverage. He criticized only Pratt and called on voters to back a “competent” alternative instead. WTF?
In short, Carey’s intervention was mainly anti-Pratt rather than a positive endorsement for anyone else. The race features Bass as the frontrunner, with Pratt as a notable challenger amid voter frustration. Again, WTF?!
🎯 Drew Carey: The Contrarian Libertarian in Clown’s Clothing
Most people see Drew Carey and think: affable fat guy from Cleveland, The Price Is Right, funny glasses, that one sitcom, The Drew Carey Show (1995, 9 seasons).
The mainstream narrative paints him as a harmless everyman entertainer. But scratch the surface, and you find something far more interesting — and far more ideologically coherent than the “socialist” label some try to pin on him.
Let’s break this down properly.
🏛️ The Libertarian, Not the Socialist
Carey is not a socialist. He’s a hardcore libertarian — and he’s been remarkably consistent about it for decades. The confusion comes from people who can’t distinguish between “a guy who tells edgy jokes on a CBS sitcom, and “a guy with an actual political philosophy.”
The evidence:
- He’s donated hundreds of thousands to libertarian causes and candidates, including the Reason Foundation, the Cato Institute, and Ron Paul's presidential campaigns.
- He narrated a documentary for Reason TV defending eminent domain abuse victims.
- He’s been an outspoken advocate for drug legalization, free speech absolutism, and non-interventionist foreign policy.
- He served on the board of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF).
- He’s repeatedly called himself a libertarian in interviews going back to the 90s, long before it was remotely fashionable in Hollywood.
The man literally wrote a book called Dirty Jokes and Beer: Stories of the Unrefined — not exactly the Communist Manifesto.
🎖️ The Military Background
Here’s something that doesn’t fit the “Hollywood leftist” caricature at all:
Carey served in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve for six years (1980–1986). He enlisted during the Cold War. He’s spoken openly about how the Marines saved him from a dead-end trajectory in Cleveland. He credits military discipline with giving him structure after a rough childhood.
Leftists don’t typically do six-year stints in the Corps. Just saying.
💰 The Actual Economic Views
Carey’s economic philosophy is closer to free-market anarchism than anything resembling socialism:
- He’s criticized both parties for runaway spending and the surveillance state.
- He’s argued for drastically shrinking the federal government.
- He’s defended the right of individuals to keep what they earn.
- He’s mocked the bureaucratic nanny state in stand-up routines for decades.
The “socialism” smear seems to come from two places:
1. His sitcom was about working-class people in Cleveland. Somehow, depicting blue-collar life on television makes you a comrade now.
2. He's pro-union in a personal sense. Carey was a card-carrying member of the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA) and the Writers Guild. But supporting the right of workers to collectively bargain in your own industry is not the same thing as advocating for state ownership of the means of production. Plenty of libertarians draw a distinction between voluntary private-sector unions and government-enforced union mandates.
📺 The “Worse” Allegations — What’s Actually There?
Now, if someone’s slinging “and worse” after “socialism,” they’re usually gesturing at something darker. Let’s address what actually exists versus what’s internet rumor-mill nonsense.
The Epstein / Hollywood connection stuff?
Carey has zero connection to any of that. He’s not in the flight logs, not in the black book, not associated with any of those circles. He was a stand-up comedian and sitcom star who mostly hung out with other comics and writers. The man’s biggest scandals involved eating too many donuts and dating a woman who later tragically took her own life (Amie Harwick, 2020), a situation where Carey was actually the one who had previously sought a restraining order against her ex-boyfriend, who ultimately killed her.
The “secret Hollywood elite” angle?
If Carey is part of some shadowy cabal, he’s doing a terrible job of it. The guy hosts a game show where people guess the price of laundry detergent. He’s photographed at Cleveland Browns games. He owns a minority stake in the Seattle Sounders MLS team. He takes photos with fans at Denny’s. This is not Kissinger at Bohemian Grove.
His actual dark side?
If you want to criticize Carey honestly, the real material is:
- His ex-fiancée, Amie Harwick, was murdered in 2020. Carey and Harwick had broken up amicably in 2018. Her ex-boyfriend, Gareth Pursehouse, stalked and killed her. Carey was devastated publicly. Some internet ghouls tried to spin this into something sinister, but there’s literally nothing there — Carey had tried to protect her from Pursehouse years earlier.
- His son’s mother and the custody situation. Carey had a son in 2005 and was involved in a custody dispute. Nothing particularly scandalous by Hollywood standards — just the standard family court ugliness.
- A former fiancée’s overdose death in 2012. Nicole Jaracz’s sister (not Nicole herself) died of an overdose. Again, the internet telephone turned this into something it wasn’t.
- Serial use of SSRIs. He still experiences depressive episodes and occasional suicidal thoughts, but emphasizes having “tools” (primarily therapy and social support) to handle them. He has not indicated ongoing SSRI use in recent public comments; his focus is on non-medication strategies like maintenance therapy.
🧠 The Real Drew Carey: A Psychological Profile
What you’re actually looking at is a guy who:
- Grew up poor in Cleveland, father died when he was 8
- Was sexually abused as a child (which he’s discussed openly)
- Attempted suicide twice as a young man
- Joined the Marines to escape poverty and depression
- Found comedy as a lifeline
- Got rich, stayed ideologically consistent, and never forgot where he came from
- Used his money to fund libertarian causes rather than chasing political influence in DC
He’s a depressive who pulled himself out of the abyss through military discipline and stand-up comedy, then spent decades quietly funding the Reason Foundation while hosting a game show.
That’s not a socialist. That’s not a Hollywood predator. That’s a weird, genuine, ideologically-committed libertarian who happens to be famous for something completely unrelated to his actual beliefs.
🎬 The Bottom Line
The “socialism and worse” framing doesn’t hold up to scrutiny. Carey’s a Chicago-school / Austrian-adjacent libertarian who’s been remarkably consistent for 30+ years in an industry that punishes heterodox economic views. If anything, the fact that he’s maintained those positions while hosting The Price Is Right — a show literally about consumer capitalism — is darkly hilarious.
The “worse” stuff? There’s no there there. Just the standard internet rumor mill doing what it does to anyone famous. The man’s real story is actually more interesting: a traumatized kid from Cleveland joins the Marines, becomes a stand-up, gets famous, stays ideologically principled, and quietly funds the liberty movement while America thinks he’s just the “come on down” guy.
