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Tony Wolf: Art and Pushing Back Against Fascism
Episode 97 Uploaded February 6: Sam Goldman interviews Tony Wolf, actor and artist (view his diverse resume at tonywolfactor.com)
about fascism, culture, and cultivating a variety of forms of pushback
against the fascists. His comic essay Where is Evil? can be seen at brokenfrontier.com where
he writes, “I sought to share my personal reflections as I grappled
with how to process the acts of the Trump administration and the GOP /
conservative supporters who have backed this utterly vile man.”
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Tony Wolf: We are in some truly scary times. People need to get loud and they need to
be so loud that they can’t be ignored. It really needs to be a large
swell of collective protest. We might all be small drops in a bucket,
but many drops in a bucket leads to a very heavy bucket.
Sam Goldman: We
are talking about a straight-up, I will use the word Nazi, program
moving forward at the school board meetings. And not just at the school
board meetings, we see the mobs that are assaulting election officials
that are going after healthcare workers. It’s everywhere. And those who
we like to call the decent people, we’re being a little too silent. I’m
not saying that we’re bad people, but we gotta make some noise because
this isn’t just going to continue on the same path. We’re not dealing
with regular politics. They are not civil. This is not about discourse.
This is not about an argument. This is about, really, a mob mentality.
Comment from a listener: Texas,
the state that I sadly live in, is basically a de facto fascist state.
It is a laboratory for what their plans are for the rest of the country;
i.e., a severe crackdown on civil and human rights, massive trans-phobic
legislation, control over women’s bodies and the reproduction through
forced pregnancies, draconian voter suppression measures, brown-shirted
black-shirted gun laws, which encourage vigilantism and extralegal
intimidation and terrorism against people of color, immigrants,
liberals, progressives, intellectuals and anyone else that they hate,
book banning/burning and control over critical thinking, enforcement of
authoritarian brainwashing and the removal of conscience from the public
schools... What can I do? What can we do? Big Love.
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