Re: “Orlando to begin painting over decorative crosswalks today” Chicago Tribune, Aug. 27.
Ron Desantis, Republican governor of Florida, has announced that all decorative artwork in Orlando crosswalks must be painted over. These recently installed paintings depict swans, citrus fruit slices, fountains, and are beautiful and creative. The intent of their destruction is obviously to justify the painting over of rainbow crosswalks that, to some, suggest that we should be tolerant of all human beings created by God.
How did it come to pass that the Republican Party is now the destroyer of art, of anything beautiful, of anything creative? Is their goal to make the United States the ugliest possible country in the world? Do they intend to eliminate all creativity, all art, all beauty? What kind of a world do they want to live in?
Tom DeCoursey
Oak Park