When haters win, they soon turn on each other. It's their nature.
It's terrible that the sensible, positive (but misguided often) conservatism of the GOP for 70 years became distorted by the lust for power, and the fear and paranoia of losing power. This mutated under Reagan and Bush Sr, starting in the 1980s, into a cancer on America, more and more ruthless, more and more controlling, more and more paranoid, until all this crystallised into an opportunity for Trump (Hitler) to take power.
Just like Hitler, the GOP have convinced those they oppress that the GOP are the only solution, the boot stomping the liberals is the only solution, the theft of their jobs and their meagre assets are the only solution. And the destruction of education in America is their greatest secret weapon.
We got very lucky that the beautiful heart of Biden rescued us in 2020, but we are still on a knife edge, and all those forces of paranoia and lust for power in the GOP and super-rich are growing, perhaps less visibly.
I suspect the super-rich KNOW that the climate catastrophe will collapse civilisation, or partly, and they think their only solution is to have MORE power, more wealth, more ruthless oppression, along with an insanely powerful military to protect the super-rich and politicians, not the people.
The Dem party is flawed, and has internal bickering (beyond debate and discourse), but is still the planet's only hope to save perhaps (only) half of the world population.
Always vote Blue (at least for the next 20-30 years) or die, along with your children and grandchildren.
Also anathema to fascism: humor because it requires irony, which is beyond the bounds of proscribed thinking. Artlessness and mirthlessness are hallmarks of oppression.
As a casual observer, hearer, feeler, of art (though appreciative when it came my way), it had escaped my notice what it was about the "far right" that always seemed "off" to me. Now I understand.
Stalin eliminating art he didn’t like or couldn’t understand reminds me of Hitler, who burned the work of abstract artists like Picasso. There is a symbolic mention in the movie The Monuments Men.
I have watched about half of Ron Pollard's movie. It is indeed very haunting. To look at these beautiful works of art and know that they were hidden away for so long is so disturbing to me. I used to be a property manager at a large office building in downtown Chicago. One day my manger put me in charge of clearing out a tenant's space. I was told to give away everything the tenant had left behind so that we could lease it to a new tenant. When I walked into the suite, which I had been in many times before, I realized the tenant had left EVERYTHING behind. As if they walked out one day and just never came back - creepy. I mean down to the pens and pencils. It took me a few weeks to donate most of the usable items. But there were these giant framed prints that no one wanted. I asked my manager if I could have them and he said, "just get rid of it!" One of the prints was by Wassily Kandinsky from 1925. It is the same style as the paintings in this movie and I love it! It was so different from the others. I had just gotten married so we used those prints to decorate the townhouse we were living in. A very special memory for me.
When haters win, they soon turn on each other. It's their nature.
It's terrible that the sensible, positive (but misguided often) conservatism of the GOP for 70 years became distorted by the lust for power, and the fear and paranoia of losing power. This mutated under Reagan and Bush Sr, starting in the 1980s, into a cancer on America, more and more ruthless, more and more controlling, more and more paranoid, until all this crystallised into an opportunity for Trump (Hitler) to take power.
Just like Hitler, the GOP have convinced those they oppress that the GOP are the only solution, the boot stomping the liberals is the only solution, the theft of their jobs and their meagre assets are the only solution. And the destruction of education in America is their greatest secret weapon.
We got very lucky that the beautiful heart of Biden rescued us in 2020, but we are still on a knife edge, and all those forces of paranoia and lust for power in the GOP and super-rich are growing, perhaps less visibly.
I suspect the super-rich KNOW that the climate catastrophe will collapse civilisation, or partly, and they think their only solution is to have MORE power, more wealth, more ruthless oppression, along with an insanely powerful military to protect the super-rich and politicians, not the people.
The Dem party is flawed, and has internal bickering (beyond debate and discourse), but is still the planet's only hope to save perhaps (only) half of the world population.
Always vote Blue (at least for the next 20-30 years) or die, along with your children and grandchildren.
Also anathema to fascism: humor because it requires irony, which is beyond the bounds of proscribed thinking. Artlessness and mirthlessness are hallmarks of oppression.
As a casual observer, hearer, feeler, of art (though appreciative when it came my way), it had escaped my notice what it was about the "far right" that always seemed "off" to me. Now I understand.
Stalin eliminating art he didn’t like or couldn’t understand reminds me of Hitler, who burned the work of abstract artists like Picasso. There is a symbolic mention in the movie The Monuments Men.
What kind of dearranged mind destroys art.
Reminds me when a politician covered up nude statues at the Great Hall of Justice.
I have watched about half of Ron Pollard's movie. It is indeed very haunting. To look at these beautiful works of art and know that they were hidden away for so long is so disturbing to me. I used to be a property manager at a large office building in downtown Chicago. One day my manger put me in charge of clearing out a tenant's space. I was told to give away everything the tenant had left behind so that we could lease it to a new tenant. When I walked into the suite, which I had been in many times before, I realized the tenant had left EVERYTHING behind. As if they walked out one day and just never came back - creepy. I mean down to the pens and pencils. It took me a few weeks to donate most of the usable items. But there were these giant framed prints that no one wanted. I asked my manager if I could have them and he said, "just get rid of it!" One of the prints was by Wassily Kandinsky from 1925. It is the same style as the paintings in this movie and I love it! It was so different from the others. I had just gotten married so we used those prints to decorate the townhouse we were living in. A very special memory for me.