>>46711Dragnet was made all the way back in the 50's and had a 60's revival which was very well known. It was conservative in that it said the cops are always here for us and corruption is a once in a while thing. It took potshots against hippies and said you have to be part of the system to change the system. That the hippie dream of communes and being independent on the system is a fantasy and will fall apart after a while.
They didn't take potshots on millionaires and the rich. They did interact with rich people because of course, people would steal from them. But the show didn't say they were responsible for any problems in society.
The world of 60's Dragnet was far different than what we have now. The conservatives who wrote the show then are different than the conservatives now. One episode had the two encounter a Neo-Nazi planning to blow up a school integrating black students and the two cops were horrified at the man's views.
There was nothing about gun nuts, militias and millionaires getting away with stuff.
Plus if you can't process art having a message, then you clearly don't engage with it deeply, understand it or get why someone made it in the first place. A lot of art happens because someone is saying something about stuff in society. Not just dumb stuff made to get a laugh out of us. Some people do tell stories for the sake of escapism. Some do it to talk about stuff in society.