Trump Should Defund NEA, NEH, and CPB

Cultural Marxism is leftist “control over modern progressive politics, mass media and academia” according to the Wiktionary online dictionary.  Once normalized and mainstreamed, the Marxist identifier is discarded.  The National Endowments for the Arts and Humanities, along with the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, have never been anything but taxpayer-based funding machines for liberal propaganda.  

      Defunding these federal programs would free up much-needed funds for neglected priorities such as rebuilding infrastructure and the military.  Nothing would be lost, since the labels arts and humanities were attached to these programs to legitimize, validate, and obscure their political agendas.

     The thin local newspaper in Rapid City, South Dakota, a couple days ago allocated their whole front page to this issue.  The banner headline proclaims “SAFETY CONCERNS arise in downtown Rapid City,” followed by a photo of the graffiti-based Art Alley, which has been unanimously promoted by the media and other progressive platforms.  

        While downtown Rapid City is striving to promote a family-comfortable tourism venue, many business owners argued just the opposite at a recent Rapid City Council meeting: “their customers and staff are being threatened by an influx of homeless people, aggressive panhandlers and intoxicated individuals downtown.”  A day later, “a store clerk was brutally stabbed to death while trying to prevent the theft of beer.”

       The related front-page article, “Arts groups fear cuts under Trump,” laments the loss of federal funding that makes such politically correct projects possible: The “NEA’s budget in 2016 was $148 million, the NEH’s budget was roughly the same, while the CPB’s budget was $445 million.”  All three federal agencies seem to have accepted as key to their missions that spray-can graffiti is an antidote to American society’s neglect of Third World people around the globe.