Pittsburgh-area creator Mary Mazziotti’s art highlights Trump’s threats to American democracy, addressing his “firehose of misdirection, misinformation, and outright lies that drown out any chance for reason and progress.”
When Donald Trump was first elected, I did a series of painted and hand-embroidered panels called “Needling the Regime.”
They combined images from World War I & II propaganda posters with quotations from Our Glorious Leader and his Sycophants.
I was pretty stunned when Trump stood on a podium at one of his rallies and said:
“We won with the poorly educated. I love the poorly educated. You know, I love the uneducated, but I love them. And I think they love me.”
The image of the head-scratching peasants, taken from an anti-Soviet poster in the 1940s, could have been designed for that statement made by Trump in 2016
The less people know, the less able they are to make critical comparisons, the better chance Trump has. I’m not sure he has the power to close down all our schools, but gutting the DOE and attacking our universities is a start.
Maybe we’re going to have to homeschool children on what they might be missing in the classroom: civics, Uncensored History, and the Constitution and Amendments. I could benefit from those classes myself.
When Elon Musk-Rat began posting the supposed cuts that DOGE had made with his swinging chainsaw (no phallic symbol here, folks, nothing to look at, move along), it was quickly proven that many of his claims were highly exaggerated or completely incorrect.
We know this because various watchdogs in the media did the hard grubbing work of fact-checking, interviewing, and digging for the truth.
I rely on many different media sources. If you do, too, please make sure to give them some juice so they can stay in the business of telling us what we need to know.
