I don't think about art as comparable to space travel, and I don't think all the artists and schools losing funding in favor of STEM do either... Sure, I think

I don't think about art as comparable to space travel, and I don't think all the artists and schools losing funding in favor of STEM do either... Sure, I think democracy was the point of Gil-Scott Heron writing his poem, and N. Robinson writing his essays? To convince who they could to deprioritize one thing in favor of another? But let's not pretend the current system of political campaigning in the US is at this moment translating pure public sentiment into pure public spending.