Monday, June 11, 2018

So This is What the Party of My Parents Has Become?

Robert De Niro drops the F-bomb on Trump — twice — at Tonys

He could have spoken of the restoration of decency in our society, or the benefits of free speech in artistic creativity, or the profitability of using art to unite rather than divide.  Instead, he was intellectually and morally lazy.  Unnecessarily vulgar, too.

An aside: The "entertainment" community may wish to coordinate their political message as they both desire for evangelical Christians to bake cakes for everyone but forbid to welcome the current occupant of The White House to a Broadway show.  That's illogical and dim.  Either our society is open or it's not.  Also, being barred from current Broadway productions doesn't seem like a punishment.

I'm rather glad I switched to re-runs of "Magnum P.I.".