In The War on the Arts in America, I describe how “The Triumph of Militarism”–our ever-more gargantuan military budget and the concomitant cutting of everything else–as well as “Media Malfunction”–the gradual expulsion from the “mainstream” media of most cultural coverage–have contributed mightily to the decline of the arts in this country.
Sen. Sanders is decrying the military budgets that have swallowed our country and the decline into meretricious vapidity of the corporate-monopolized media. And he has constructive solutions.