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A Polemic

Jan 20, 2017
by Caroline Miller
an artist's obligation to write of the times, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Donald Trump, Garrison Keillor, Meryl Streep
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“A Polemic,” may be too grand a title for this blog.  While not intending to be impassioned, I would like to lay out the reason why I labor each day to put a few ideas, most of them not my own, in to print.  I owe that explanation to myself as well as to my readers.  I write my blogs because I sense we are in extraordinary times..

The issues I choose will, I hope, be of  interest to others, perhaps throw a little light on arcane subjects and sometimes, I endeavor to amuse.  Of late, like many, I’ve focused on the attributes of our new president. The man has a right to his political views, certainly.  My concern is for his character.  He seems to lack an ethical compass and as such, I believe he is pulling the country into a riptide of social unrest that may drown our democracy.  The dogs of bigotry have been unleashed.  A lust to establish a Christian theocracy threatens our laws.  Bare knuckled self-interest is characterized as “smart.”  The era of false promises passes for coin of the realm.  And, a wholesale disregard for the environment is frightening. 

I am not alone among the artists who are expressing a similar concern. Garrison Keillor describes Trump’s moral compass is a follows:  “When he itches, he scratches.” (Click)  Meryl Streep uses her bully pulpit to remind the new president that basic decency isn’t a luxury. “There was a performance this year that stunned me…not because it was good: there was nothing good about it.”(Click)  Arnold Schwarzenegger tells his fellow Republicans,  “it is not acceptable to choose your country over your party, it’s your duty,” (Click) 

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Being of the world as well as in it, artists are about revealing  inner as well as objective truths. Otherwise, why should the craft exist?  If I confuse my readers with my eclectic observations, I apologize.  For me, the world at this moment seems to have gone awry.  Like the canary in a coal mine, I feel an obligation to sing as long as I have breath.

 

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  1. Maggi White January 20, 2017 at 8:49 am Reply
    Yes, I feel the same way. I cannot make sense of all of this and why some people voted for him because Hillary had more experience than any candidate in history. I believe it is a feeling of desperation some people must have about security. I noticed that most people I talked to about favorite president talked of feeling "safe" with the president they named.
    • Caroline Miller January 20, 2017 at 10:45 am Reply
      The Trump victory remains a puzzler even, I suspect, to Trump himself.
  2. Maggi White January 20, 2017 at 12:21 pm Reply
    I don't agree with that. It came as no surprise to him. He is a genius and persuasion and manipulation. Mussolini, he's has been reborn.1
    • Caroline Miller January 20, 2017 at 12:39 pm Reply
      You may be right. Unless we learn to read his mind, we'll never know.
  3. Betsy January 21, 2017 at 4:29 pm Reply
    Trump was raised to be a bully, with a father that told him to lash back when accused. He is an extreme narcissist, with no regret for his actions because he is unable to let himself feel deeply, so lives in his defenses. That, and being handed cash from dad, and given no moral boundaries, is so out of a voter's own raising, voters expect him to change, and be like them at heart. Narcissists don't change. We must fight him from our own morality, and somehow the mass of women who came out today is a grand start.
    • Caroline Miller January 21, 2017 at 4:38 pm Reply
      Appreciate you insights. It takes a village for us to learn how to encourage good qualities in human nature and how to discourage the less admirable pmes. Trump and the congress are going to need a lot of guidance from us on these matters. I agree.

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Portland, Oregon author Caroline Miller had distinguished careers as an educator, union president, elected official and artist/advocate.

Her play, Woman on the Scarlet Beast, was performed at the Post5 Theatre, Portland, OR, January/February 2015

Caroline published a serialized novelette, Marie Eau-Claire, on the website, The Colored Lens.  She also published the story Gustav Pavel,  a parable about ordinary lives, choice and alternate potential, on the website Fixional.co.

Caroline has published four novels

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