Political Art

For those of you who watched the January 6th committee's findings the results were shocking, appalling, and yet not that surprising. We had seen Trump's behavior during his candidacy. Grandiose, dishonest, bellicose, mocking the disabled, referring in national debates to a news moderator "having blood running out from between her legs" and saying that if he ran it would be as a Republican because "they were the stupidest people." And yes, he also insinuated in an internationally televised debate that Marco Rubio had a small penis. This was followed by the dumpster fire of his presidency. Tax cuts that favored the wealthy. Shocking breaches in security protocols where he insisted on conversations he had with Vladimir PUtin be shredded. An atmosphere the fostered hate and division. And now the truth is fully revealed. On January 6th, the darkest day of American democracy, he had been told by numerous Republicans who held high positions in his cabinet and/or were long standing friends and supporters that he needed to stop the "big lie" that he had won the presidency, and that heavily armed thugs with weapons had descended on the capital and were causing mutilation and fatalities. While they were urging him to stop the carnage, he was on Fox news gloating about it, refusing to do anything, and later told these people that they were "very special" and that "we love you." The question is where does this now? The attorney general of New York State has dropped criminal charges against Trump despite being urged by voters on both sides of the aisle not to do this. Merreick Garland, heading the DOJ, has said "That no one is above the law." An ominous remark for Trump, but still, is not yet the decisive action that we need in these very troubled times. What are your thoughts? What would you like to see happen next? How would you like to see Trump being brought to justice? If this music helps inspire you, gives you ideas, give you energy to combat the despair and inertia that many of us feel, please feel free to tune in. I remember long ago a student asked one of my professors, "Can art be truly political?" His answer, without hesitation, was, "You bet it can. The best art has to be!"