MASS MURDERERS ROW: WHY DIDN'T ANDY PAINT HITLER?

Vol. I | Issue. 6 | June 24, 2021

Andy Warhol, the reigning Queen of Studio 54, was a creative and marketing genius.

Two words that are overused to the point of being meaningless in the American language are "hero" and  "genius". Nowadays, you don’t have to shed blood, save a life, or risk your own life to be a hero.

The hero descriptor has become so hollow, that to some eating a hero sandwich makes you a hero. If you are a millennial or younger, it would have to be a vegan hero, but to fully qualify you would have to recycle the wrapper.

As for today's "geniuses", most wouldn't have qualified even as mediocrities when the thoughtful expression of language was considered to be important. Add today's “everyone gets a trophy for showing up” mindset to the mix and America becomes a nation comprised of 75% geniuses and heroes. 

But with Andy, the word genius is a perfect fit. Warhol from the inception of the 1960s through his death in 1987 was a shaper, and creator, and sometimes anticipator of American culture.

Warhol was best known for his talents and work product as a visual artist and illustrator. Most people are unaware of his work in other artistic realms such as music, movies, and television. His greatest talent, rising to the level of genius, was his ability not only to follow cultural trends but how to create and lead them. Most of all, he knew how to market and monetize his work.

Let's focus on two of his best sellers and one he didn’t do:

1. 1973 painting of Mass Murderer Mao Ze Dong, nee Mao Tse Tung

2. 1968 painting of  Mass Murderer Che Guevara

3. Missing Mass Murderer Adolf Hitler

Mao Ze Dong was born in 1893 to a prosperous peasant family in Shaoshan, Hunan China. In his formative years, he was a Chinese Nationalist. During the 19th century, China was carved up by several European powers to the point where she lost her sovereignty, national identity, and became powerless.

While attending Peking University, the lighting struck that rocked his world. He met and fell in love with Communism and became a founding member of the Chinese Communist Party "CCP".

Mao's love affair with Communism didn't prevent him from entering temporary alliances with other groups and factions antithetical to communism to rid China of foreign influence. This included the rapacious invasion and occupation by the Japanese during the 1930s through WWII.

After WWII and the Communist victory in the Chinese Civil War, Mao became "Chairman MAO". In 1949 he founded the People's Republic of China "PRC". From that time forward Mao was the Chairman of the Board in every sense, although he did it his way, he was no Frank Sinatra.

Mao ruled with a totalitarian fist. As required by the Marxist/ Leninist playbook, he destroyed the nuclear family unit, Chinese culture and tradition, all private property ownership, and all religious practices. In the process, he murdered roughly 80 million people, making him the most prolific mass murderer in history. It is estimated that he murdered triple the number attributed to Hitler, and double that of Stalin.

Che Guevara, born into a wealthy Argentine family, was trained as a physician. Guevara affectionately referred to as Che by the "elites" became Fidel Castro's gal Friday in La Révolution.

When Castro came to power in 1959, Che had broad powers as a minister without a portfolio. His responsibilities included a literacy campaign, healthcare, and the one thing that he excelled in was his authority over the firing and death squads that were designed to quell all "counter-revolutionary activity". Forgetting the Hippocratic oath that he took upon becoming a physician, he became an excellent mass murderer. He never hit Mao’s numbers, but Cuba is a small country so it wasn't for lack of effort, just opportunity.

Warhol fell in love with Che from the moment he met him through the iconic Alberto Korda photograph taken in 1960. But his love was likely less an affair of the heart, than of his wallet. Andy knew that the left would fall in love with Che and that they would swoon over the prospect that their students and children would buy his posters and t-shirts by the millions. So Andy painted a stylized version of the Korda photograph in 1968. With Che, Andy was right, he had created another Mass Murderer best-seller masterpiece.

The Warhol Che image seemed to appear everywhere. You couldn't be an elite if you didn’t have a Che t-shirt or at least a poster.

Now for the most puzzling question of all… Why didn’t Andy paint Hitler? The mass-murdering genocidal Jew Killer.

It is a painfully sickening topic and question as a Jew whose entire family remaining in Europe during his reign of terror was murdered by him. It is, however, an important one. If Mao murdered three times the number of people than Hilter, why did Andy paint him or the quantitatively more modest Mass Murderer, Che Guevara, and not Hitler? 

The answer is simple. Andy knew that the elite loved their left-wing Mass Murderers, but not those considered to be right-wing fascist mass murderers. Leftist elites have always championed the cause of Marxism, Leninism, and Communism. In short, he knew that the images of Mao and Che would sell like hotcakes to their offspring, students, and everyone under their deranged influence. 

The "elites” have always considered Communism a "peoples movement". But tell me, did Mao Stalin or Castro ever defer to their people? Not that I've heard.

There has never been a communist state run by the "people". They have all been run by murderous fascist dictators. The latest useful idiots of the American elite are passionate to think and spread the new diseases of "progressive" and “woke”, both of which are thinly veiled versions of Marxism, aimed like daggers at the heart of The American Way. The sickness of this thinking is running rampant in America, and if left unchecked will soon be running America.

Have a cup of tomato soup while pondering these issues. I recommend you cut off your children's allowance if they buy any Mao or Che gear at the college bookstore.

-Emes