Bernie Sanders: "I will be an Arts President. Art is speech. Art is what life is about!"

[Lorien]

Last edited Wed Feb 17, 2016, 12:50 PM - Edit history (1)

As a freelancer who works in a creative field, I love this!!

Bernie Sanders has been a looongtime supporter of government sponsorship of the arts, even when it may have not been cool. Improving mental health in the United States, especially in children, will include the arts and music. Bernie Sanders has the progressive vision to rethink how we do things.

Scientific American:
- Music Lessons Combat Poverty's Effect on the Brain bit.ly/1nOTRlM
- Music Can Heal the Brain bit.ly/1J9evdO

Strike up the band for better health http://m.deseretnews.com/…/Why-guitars-and-drums-are-becomi…

In this video from the early 1990s (video here: on.fb.me/1KLjz9T), Bernie Sanders describes immoral and outrageous ways to balance a budget: Gingrich wanted to cut back on higher education, cut funds for the National Endowment of the Arts (Costs less than 10% of a B2 bomber that the Pentagon didn't want), others wanted to cut Medicare and Medicaid

National Endowment of the Arts: https://www.arts.gov/
The Hill: Funding the arts is good for the nation: bit.ly/19i6T8i

("One issue"? Not true in the least)!

[Helen Borg]

1. Yeah!

Love this! Neoliberalism has no place for art. It does not understand what meaning is about. It treats us all like little robots competing with each other for scraps.

[My Good Babushka]

2. It would be nice to have a president

who is a president of a living, breathing, people, life and meaning, the richness of a civilization. We don't need another president of money, who helps only money.

[BlueJazz]

3. What My Good Babushka said. Arts bring the soul of civilization to the surface.

[Lorien]

14. Exactly! nt

[Feeling the Bern]

4. This film exec/screenwriter looks forward to working with you on this, Mr. President

You were the best vote I ever made in a primary. And in the general, you will be the best vote I believe I will ever make!

[C_U_L8R]

5. I've been waiting my whole life to hear this

Too many politicians have not been kind to the arts.

[Donkees]

6. Artists for Bernie!

[mac56]

7. "Art is speech"? No, Bernie, you got it all wrong.

Campaign contributions are speech!

[Tanuki]

8. Good for Bernie. I agree with him. The Clintons also have a track record on this:

http://clinton3.nara.gov/WH/Work/061600.html

https://www.arts.gov/art-works/2013/art-diplomacy

[Vinca]

9. One more reason to support him.

[olddots]

10. this is the big issue because art makes you think

And want to know more .Art is anti facism and pro human .

[Lorien]

13. As he's said in another speech; art is what most defines a culture. When you go to a foreign

country, what do you seek out? The great architecture, museums, music, dance, the stories and literature...and some might say that unique cuisine is artistic expression. Art is essential to human expression. America focuses more on war and wealth acquisition than art, and perhaps that's one big reason why we have the greatest percentage of clinically depressed people in the world.

[Bluenorthwest]

11. That's our Bernie right there!

I love hearing this upfront and sincerely spoken by a man who understands the vital nature of the arts in making progress and in making a healthy society.

[JRLeft]

12. Obama tried to include the arts and it was blocked by republicans.