I am a retired high school Visual arts teacher. My main goal for my students was and still is to create a safe haven for creativity and personal growth. The making of art images and objects is conceptual and technical based. Personal choices, experience and discovery, is a journey toward independence and maturity.
Thursday, February 10, 2022
How does Public Art Education Co-Exist with Autocratic Political Cult/Conspiracy Theories, a Wide-spread Voter Suppression effort, and Banning Fact-Based History Lessons in schools?
In addition to characterizing the Violent January 6 insurrection as “Legitimate Political Discourse”, The GOP is weaponizing "Cancel Culture" in Schools, engages an all out effort in voter suppression; and financing the Canadian trucker's blockade of goods to America in an effort to damage our economy for their own political advantage.
MSNBC's Lawrence O’Donnell Show: guest speaker Steve Schmidt, former Republican Strategist, February 8, 2022.
The Republican National Committee has declared the January 6, 2021 insurrection at the United States Capitol to be a “Legitimate Political Discourse”; and censored Liz Cheney (R) Wy and Adam Kinzinger (R) ILL. for their involvement on the January 6 Select Committee.
Steve Schmidt’s comments on the statement by the RNC “Legitimate Political Discourse” used for the Jan 6 insurrection on our U.S. Capitol to violently overturn the rightful 2020 Presidential Election are alarming. He calls out Republicans as an “Autocratic Vessel” in the United States. He says “Violence is not ‘Legitimate Political Discourse’.”
“Sweden has eighteen political parties, if one is “Autocratic” the effect is minimal. In America with only two political parties, if one is “Autocratic” it is a ‘huge deal’ for the survival of our Republic.”
“The Republican Party, today, includes Fascists, Proud Boy Extremists, Neo-Nazis, and people filled with racial animus; all part of a coalition. Those individual parts cannot and do not fit together; but it’s a convenience coalition, because they seek to get back into political power.
We cannot let this happen under any circumstance until the “Autocratic”movement inside that party, which dominates it completely is “dead and buried”. And we are a long, long way from that.”
On January 6, 2021, “there was a conspiracy party headed by the President of the United States to obstruct, destroy, obliterate the peaceful transition of power in our Country. We know that this Autocratic movement is a “Cult Personality”, fueled by grievance and “Conspiracy Theories”.
It’s all part of this “toxic stew”. This movement possesses all the markers
that any expert in the field would require to say “this is an Autocratic Movement. And it’s metastasized north of our border with an insurrection underway in the Capitol of Canada.”
“This attempt to overturn our election is a defining moment, not only for the RNC, but for [our] entire Country. The violence where 140 police officers were assaulted and killed, where insurrectionists defecated in the U.S. Capitol, urinated on the walls, bludgeoned people with the American Flag, attacked peoples with Bear Spray. And the RNC calls this “Legitimate Political Discourse”? We could lose our Country over this! This is an enormous deal! No political leader in America of either party has ever made such a [false] declaration!”
“You have this “Institution”, the 3rd oldest party in the world sanctioning
“Fascistic Violence”. The 2020 election was about Donald Trump’s unfitness for office. The next elections will be about the American people. We have to decide if we are going to throw our “American Experiment” into the “dust bin” of history. Despite all the flaws of our Country, all of it’s hypocrisies…Our Nation made up of all the peoples of the world, where every language is spoken…We have fed more people…We have cured more people than all the other peoples of the world put together since the beginning of time.”
“This is an exceptional Country. It’s greatest dissidents didn’t seek to tare it down. Martin Luther King sought to be included in it’s promise. He marched to the Lincoln Memorial to collect a promissory note. We’re going to wash that down the sewer? For Donald Trump? We’re going to usher in an age for our children of “political violence” in our Country?”
“It’s appalling! It’s despicable! The line has been drawn! The issue is clear! There is no backing off from this! It has to be confronted; and the American people have to decide; and that choice will determine whether we have “Peace and prosperity” for this decade, and the next decade, and decades after for our Country.”
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