This election cycle has been fraught with craziness that has exceeded the imaginable.
Bernie Sanders, the wild-haired Jew from Brooklyn managed to defy all odds and naysayers and build a movement of young people that swept the country. And then he killed it.
Donald Trump, the New York billionaire turned reality TV star has managed to win support from a large share of the working class by tweeting, scapegoating and expressing nonsensical policies, even though he was a daddy’s boy born into the establishment with a silver spoon in his mouth.
And recently, cheap propaganda masquerading as “renegade art” has been overtaking our sound- and airwaves. Some weeks ago, Indecline, an artist collective, exposed castrated-Trump statues in a coordinated and dramatic manner on the streets of San Francisco, Los Angeles, Cleveland, Seattle and in Union Square, New York. While some critiqued the works, many adored these statues and reveled in the douchebaggery of public body shaming, jeering and cursing at the statues. The fact of the matter is that Indecline’s work was far from being subversive. It grotesquely expressed the mainstream liberal revulsion at Trump himself, while avoiding the much harder task of addressing his policies and the reasons he is successfully appealing to many Americans. A real look would damn liberals, the Democratic Party and Hillary Clinton, so that was out of the question for art that attempted to be a popular hit and grab mainstream media…