It’s very possible I’m just becoming numb to the relentless cruelty and bad decisions happening in our country but the news about the National Endowment for the Arts didn’t bother me nearly as much as I would have thought. Maybe if it had happened first? Like, before USAID and before all the “deportations” that are really kidnappings and before all the privacy violations and before all the flagrant attacks on the First Amendment, maybe I’d be more upset. But when the news broke about the National Endowment for the Arts (The NEA) revoking funding it had previously granted, I didn’t feel nearly as bad as I felt I should. It is awful, of course. Many arts organizations were counting on that funding to do their shows, implement their programs, pay their artists, continue their missions. It is genuinely terrible, of course! That’s money the Federal government promised them and then pulled away like a governmental Lucy, yanking the football out from under Charlie Brown. There is nothing good about it.
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