Wednesday, October 31, 2012
The Election and the Future of the NEA
Barry's Blog: What is the Future of the NEA post election? The election has everyone on a high anxiety level. No matter which one is your guy, you wonder: will he win, how will the swing states go? Is Hurricane / Tropical Storm Sandy a game changer in terms of voter turnout? Will Latinos and young people turn out? Will women support the GOP? It’s a cliffhanger and the country is on edge - waiting, nervously.
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This article is chock full of powerful messages, but I do wonder how practical the solutions it is proposing truly are. I think even getting a huge amount of people to write into the white house (also good luck organizing artists to do that) will not really have an effect. This is because I think most people would rather have money for school or tax breaks or to save the environment. And the president is always go to appease the people, and frankly arts are not that valued by our society. Because of this economic down turn I can't say that I wouldn't necessarily side with them, I love the arts and it will be my livelihood so of course I want it funded but I would rather have a good school for my future children to go to and an environmentally sustainable world. Now I frankly don't know enough to say that the money cut from the NEA would go to that. Given that the arts are viewed as a leftists agenda akin to liberal propaganda then I some how doubt that Romney is going to be giving much money back to schools or the environment.
It is an important thing to think about though. How important are the arts. And does cutting them really help save us from the this economic crisis we have put ourselves into. I think the moral of this article though, is that issues are only as important as we make them.
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