{"id":16062,"date":"2021-05-08T02:11:59","date_gmt":"2021-05-08T02:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=16062"},"modified":"2021-05-08T02:11:59","modified_gmt":"2021-05-08T02:11:59","slug":"the-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=16062","title":{"rendered":"The Battle&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-0 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"649\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screen-Shot-2021-05-07-at-8.55.51-PM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16066\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screen-Shot-2021-05-07-at-8.55.51-PM.png 649w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screen-Shot-2021-05-07-at-8.55.51-PM-243x300.png 243w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Gustav Dore Illustration from Milton&#8217;s Paradise Lost:<em>The battle of the angels<\/em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/policy.medium.com\/medium-rules-30e5502c4eb4?source=responses-----cfaad0aeaf75--------------------------------\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"89d9\"><strong>Court Painter has freely distilled from an article by Matthew Dowd political pundit &amp; analyst in Medium: <em>Truth and Democracy: The Dividing line in America today<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"b449\"><strong>Today<\/strong>, the gravest threat to the globe is the attacks on fragile and frayed democracies combined with a major segment of  citizens and leaders who no longer consider telling the truth a fundamental value.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"9741\"><strong>This battle for<\/strong> <strong>democracy and for truth <\/strong>is the most pivotal and crucial crisis facing America and the world today. It is absolutely imperative that leaders understand this, and focus their time and resources in a way that shows they know the issue of democracy and truth is the most important task to be done in this moment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"568f\"> The great dividing line today is: on one side the belief in a common set of facts, the common good, and a vibrant active expansive democracy, on the opposing side of this is the exact opposite. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"dd4d\">It is time to realize party labels and platforms are ludicrous if we lose  democracy and the ability to tell the truth and trust that facts matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"8a10\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"533\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Gc.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16069\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Gc.jpg 533w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Gc-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 533px) 85vw, 533px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"553\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Gdore-twist.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16068\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Gdore-twist.jpg 553w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Gdore-twist-207x300.jpg 207w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 553px) 85vw, 553px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"e42e\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"533\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Gz-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16073\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Gz-1.jpg 533w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Gz-1-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 533px) 85vw, 533px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"731\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Court-Painter-Dore-Twists.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16076\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Court-Painter-Dore-Twists.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Court-Painter-Dore-Twists-300x219.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Court-Painter-Dore-Twists-768x561.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"fa23\"><strong>A Court Painter Series of <em>Twists on Dore<\/em> based on Gustav Dore&#8217;s illustrations for Milton&#8217;s Paradise Lost<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gustav Dore Illustration from Milton&#8217;s Paradise Lost:The battle of the angels Court Painter has freely distilled from an article by Matthew Dowd political pundit &amp; analyst in Medium: Truth and Democracy: The Dividing line in America today Today, the gravest threat to the globe is the attacks on fragile and frayed democracies combined with a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=16062\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Battle&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-images","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16062"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21096,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16062\/revisions\/21096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}