The Mouse Of Liberty

In the last month Art Spiegelman,
author of 'Maus' has endured his book
being banned in some American states,
banned from being taught in schools, 
as if it were 'dirty' to inform children
that The Holocaust was real,
and Holocaust denial is absurd.

All this happens as American Authoritarianism
denies The Holocaust in the name of denying
that it too is bullying and authoritarian;
such denial is becoming collective as it gathers pace.

Now the internet has re-legitimised Nazism,
through the accusation of it being the last way
to win a weak argument, and Russian bully politics
legitimise invading Ukraine on the back
of saying that the Ukrainian government
'had Nazis in it', I fear that the truthful art
of Art Spiegelman may yet lose it's place
in a world where bullying authoritarianism
legitimises itself by the lies it tells about it's enemies.