The Art of Rick Stoner
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...He ambulated from job to job trying to find time to paint at night...
...Yes, the political and cultural eruption that first became a national phenomenon in 1964 with the candidacy of Barry Goldwater came to govern in 1980...
...I just wasn't ready to be a fine artist...
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...On the op-ed page of the Washington Post he noted recently that the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980 represented a "seismic shift" in the "American political culture...
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...They are embodying what the distinguished liberal historian of a generation ago, Richard Hotftadter, essayed as "the paranoid style of American politics...
...Each painting is a step in that dance, and with each step, the dance becomes more distinctively my own...
...Warming to his theme, Stoner adds, "I think of my artistic vision almost as a dance...
...Throughout American history those terms denoted racists, fascists, and other assorted anti-democratic authoritarians...
...They still seem to believe that there is something illegitimate about what is called, in happier times, "the loyal opposition...
...Thinking that conservatives had no moral right to win and govern, liberals began the politics of personal destruction...
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...Hofstadter, the American historian who believed in America, hoped "variety" would triumph...
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...In a particularly hefty essay, "The Intellectual: Alienation and Conformity," he associated anti-intellectualism with the right and the philistine center ofAmerican life...
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...In fact, evidence does not move them...
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...Life became difficult and he could feel himself drifting into a deep malaise...
...Many liberals," he says, upon being confronted with conservative governance "shifted gears from smug superiority to utter fury...
...They believe that those who oppose them are conspirators...
...An heir to Ronald Reagan's politics was elected in 2000...
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...That is about the way that today's liberals would like to see things go, with theirs being the dominant persuasion...
...The next few years were the most frustrating of Stoner's life...
...In the last few years, Stoner has become preoccupied with the notion...
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...Obviously it has now been picked up by the left...
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...Two-party politics came to characterize the Republic, wherever the voters' voice was heard...
...Yet something odd crept into the American political discourse...
...Recognizing the full reality of his situation, Stoner decided to return to fine art, and make it work...
...2000 "Painting needs to be fun and joyful...
...In fact Hillary Rodham Clinton referred to conservatives as "conspirators," members of a "vast right-wing conspiracy...
...Bork has thrown his weight onto the scale...
...Socialism fell out of fashion...
...On the local level it brought the Republican Party back from the doldrums of the '50s and '60s...
...At some point the president of the United States got entangled in one of his own legal enthusiasms, sexual harassment law...
...He was impeached, but the country moved on...
...At home diverse policies were adopted, diminishing the role of what was once called "collectivism...
...Art," the fifty-year-old Stoner reflects, "is all I ever wanted to do...
...The electorate continued to put Republicans in charge of governor's mansions, state legislatures, and Congress...
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...Such terms as "far right" and "extreme right" began to be applied to Ronald Reagan's heirs...
...Perhaps,_ Stoner says,_ I lacked this vision initially...
...Democrats use the terms regularly and few squawks are heard.Why...
...So far," he wrote, "as the weight of one's will is thrown onto the scales of history, one lives in the belief that it [conformity to one persuasion] is not to be so...
...The conservatives' growing popularity with the electorate and effectiveness in government did not change these liberals' minds...
...Asked the kind of questions sexual harassment law requires that an alleged sexual harasser answer, the president lied under oath and obstructed justice...
...I don't respond to joyless work, and I suspect few other people do either...
...A healthy political dialogue was guaranteed...
...Hoftadter would be amazed...
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...Ultimately, painting needs to be fun and joyful...
...It is possible," Hofstadter wrote, "that under modern conditions the avenues of choice are being closed, and that the culture of the future will be dominated by single-minded men of one persuasion or another...
...Most Democrats and Republicans moved the country toward free trade, limited government, law and order, and other conservative values while maintaining concern for the environment, minority rights, and other liberal values...
...Then in 1992 Bill Clinton was elected, and what happened...
...This is democratic government as it is expected to be practiced...
...The governance continued for 12 years...
...He also wrote authoritatively about anti-intellectualism in America...
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...It's a step-by-step process, and it takes time...
...They are now regularly being applied to people who for twenty or more years have peacefully governed and otherwise conducted politics in the country...
...He associated that paranoid style with the right usually...
...Evidence to the contrary does not move them...
...Well, he does bring to mind Daniel Patrick Moynihan's observation some thirty years ago that some liberals believe that conservatives have no place in "the natural order of things...
...He feared that "conformity" to anti-intellectualism would become more intense in America...
...The conformity today's liberals seem to want and liberals like Hofstadter disdained will not last...
...artists, but you must move on to your own personal vision...
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