I recently saw an article about President Trump’s appointment of several of his supporters to the board of directors of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. The article’s headline read, “Trump’s weird obsession with the arts is right out of the fascist playbook.”
This headline is just another example of the intolerance and bigotry of the supporters of “woke” ideology. Why do these people consider art to be something that only those who share their ideology are allowed to take part in? Why do these people consider anyone who thinks differently than they do to be “weird” and “fascist”? It’s because they are bullies. It’s because they are intolerant bigots who value sameness and conformity above all else and believe that being different from the norm is intrinsically bad. In other words, they have values and beliefs that are the exact opposite of the values and beliefs that they claim to have. If this sounds completely hypocritical, logically inconsistent, and morally bankrupt, that’s because it is.
I consider myself to be both right-wing, and a Trump supporter, and I love art. Art is one of the most important things in my life, if not the most important. As someone whose ideological views are not shared or understood by the people around me, art is a crucial form of self-expression. It is because of my right-wing values and beliefs – not despite them – that I love art. Art is how I express my emotions, feelings, and thoughts. It’s how I honor the historical figures that I love. (If you are interested, you can see some of my artwork at my art website here.)
There is nothing “weird” about being interested in art, and there certainly isn’t anything “fascist” about it. Silly me, but I would argue that it is fascist to believe that only people who think like you are allowed to be interested in art. Unfortunately for the woke bullies, there is no law restricting art to only one ideology. People like me have just as much right to partake in art as they do.