Alyssa Milano on why Hollywood is so politically left-leaning

"Liberal Hollywood." It's a prevalent stereotype -- but is it really as accurate as the public believes? According to Alyssa Milano, there's no question.

"[Hollywood] is left-leaning for sure, for better or for worse," Milano said during a recent conversation with AOL. "There's a certain tunnel vision to these ideologies. I think artists ... are always going to be left-leaning because it's just more inclusive. More tolerant."

Milano is disappointed, she said, that many of today's music artists haven't stepped up to create songs that speak to the landmark issues currently crippling the United States. A mega-fan of the Beatles -- her son has six original sketches by John Lennon framed in his bedroom -- she says musicians aren't "taking seriously" the gravity of this moment in time.

"I feel like there's not really protest songs coming out of this generation. Can you name any new protest songs?" Milano said, adding that generic songs about empowerment or change lack power. Those songs "still have their place, but it's no Bob Dylan or John Lennon, or Crosby, Stills & Nash. People who really wrote protest anthems."

Amidst relentless partisan turmoil plaguing the country, Milano says Americans should look to one of their favorite pasttimes to learn how to better understand oneanother. A diehard New York Giants fan who recently launched her fall sportswear collection, Touch by Alyssa Milano, the actress calls being in a football stadium "a great equalizer."

"Everybody's views are way too fossilized in politics," she said. "But in a stadium, even though we're rooting for one team, we can still appreciate a play from the opposing team if it's a great play."

The "Insatiable" star is an outspoken critic of President Trump, taking to Twitter nearly every day to challenge his widely controversial decisions and behavior. To stay quiet just isn't an option -- "I can't not speak up," she said -- but she's well aware that other Hollywood figures keep mum about their politics.

"I think they're afraid," she said. "There's a certain element of vulnerabiltiy that you have to be okay with. You have to be okay with getting death threats and mean tweets. I have to voice my concerns, what's in my heart. Otherwise I don't feel like I'm being true."