Reply #60: Perversion of cultural iconography

[chade]

I was talking to a friend about this a few days ago. From a lot of what I've seen of conservative arts, the signage at events and imagery that is passed around and shared, one of the things that strikes me is how little of it is original. It seems that the right has only the ability to pervert that which already exists.

The most notable example of this was back at Glenn Beck's 'Restoring Honor' rally. My jaw literally dropped because the backdrops that were done up (with images of Lincoln, etc.) were aesthetic copies of the Shepard Fairey 'Hope' Obama designs. This in addition to the numerous accounts of mostly war-propaganda related re-appropriations.

As far as conservative artists, quite a few designers and illustrators I follow seem to have at least a bit of a Libertarian streak to them, if not right-wing, although a lot of that seems to come more from the business side of things (most of this conservative artist sample are freelancers/independents).