Dorothy Dehner: Landscape for Cynics (1945)
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum,
Gift of the Dorothy Dehner Foundation for the Visual Arts
© Dorothy Dehner Foundation for the Visual Arts

"…why they're so confidently leading us into Hell."

We inhabit a time seemingly tailor-made for cynics. The individuals who comprise our administration, who never intended to administer anything, lead the way by steadfastly failing to fulfill the obligations they agreed to when taking their oaths of office. They tend to do the opposite of whatever they promise. The incumbent confuses confabulation with communication. His supporters insist that we should take him seriously, but never literally, whatever that's supposed to mean. The party that long advertised themselves as The Party of Lincoln, family values, and economic conservatism behaves like confederates, pedophiles, and economic ignoramuses in practice. My congressional representative makes no bones about who he believes he's representing, and it's not his constituents, whose interests he's betrayed at every opportunity.

I was no innocent.

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