Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for August 18, 2013

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Parthenogenesis

And what’s wrong with not reproducing???

The Great American Comic Strip!

That would be redundant.

It’s easy to be convinced to vote against your own best interests if all you listen to is Faux News and the WSJ…read some of the late great Molly Ivins’ columns. She addresses this very question.

Divide et impera. “Divide and rule.” The motto of the Roman Empire. “United we stand, divided we fall.” The motto of the American Revolution. We are all hard-wired to divide the world into “us” and “them”. And to fear that what is “ours” is being taken by “them”. The first part of the GOP message is simple: "THEY are trying to take your … " Fill in the blank: money, gun, job, liberty, control, religious or ethnic dominance, etc. The second part is “THEY are going to give that which is rightfully yours to those who are unlike you, and who are your moral inferiors.” And the third part of the GOP message is “But we will stop them.” As long as people rightfully or wrongly are fearful of the loss of the things they have and hold dear, and believe that persons morally inferior to themselves are the beneficiaries, they will follow this message. No matter how little else you have to offer, or how clueless you may be in regard to the actual, modern, largely urban world. No matter how little this message reflects reality. They don’t have to promise to make things better, they only have to promise to prevent the scapegoat of the month from making things worse.

Why? If I be a dem and laugh at obama joining the rodeo why not at this?

Oh, there are plenty of “angry, straight, white, well-armed evangelical” women… You can start in Iowa

how much of that money was spent buying stadiums and arenas? the public gets sold a bill of goods by the owners. if you build us an a stadium/arena, you will be swimming in cash…

I wanted to find some truly classic Doonesbury strips online for everyone. Unfortunately all I can locate are these. Some isolated strips from 2007 – 2009, all military related. Still for those that want to read a few oldies, look herehttp://www.military.com/doonesbury-archive

Aah, stratification!

To understand the people on both sides, try reading “The Righteous Mind, Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion”. I found it explained the divide VERY well and it helped me talk to both left and right wingers without fighting.

I used to know a man, strong right-wing conservative just a rifle or two short of starting his own militia, who told me, totally serious, that one of the problems with America was that women could earn a living and so didn’t have to rely on men anymore to stay alive. Things were so much better in the old days, etc.And he wondered why he couldn’t keep a girlfriend, most of whom ran screaming from him after they got to know him better.

Reproduction through fiat.

It’s befitting that most Republicans have the ‘why’ chromosome.

Oh Trudeau, so do like to be a bigot….

I didn’t know 47% of Americans were angry, old, white, armed males…..

That quite sumits all.indeed.

Digital media has changed the landscape in terms of learning about politics rather dramatically in recent years. All of this is still evolving. Here in kc, a sportswriter publicly committed suicide over the weekend and posted a huge website explaining why he was making this choice. The writer was very intelligent and made a very lucid argument as to why he made this choice. A rather dark avenue for public discourse. The writer didn’t only speak of himself, since he was a semi-public person.

You folks are really good at ad hominem attack.

It may not be fruitful to try to psychoanalyze the other side, though it can be amusing.

“Divide and conquer,” “ad hominem attacks” coming from republicans is just hilarious!

Way to go, Liberals… Keep Tea Party and Republicans on everyone’s mind so when your party finally insults and rudely offends the voting public, they’ll know who to turn to. .Back to the cartoon – I think this is hilarious!

The concept of voter fraud is fraudulent. A way for the GOP to stay alive. It is back to the disgraceful past of locking out certain voters. Some honest GOP folks have even admitted it.

Lefty comment-writers here describing their fellow Americans on the other side: tea bagger; thugs; below average IQs; self-loathing; not so very smart; know-nothing; bigoted; clueless; cowards; traitors; whining crybabies; moron; control-freak; righteous; fraudulent; disgraceful.

How burdensome it must be for high-IQ minds to have to live, with their enlightened ideals and perfection, in such a country, side by side with the great unwashed.

Mokspal

“Men need women? What a novel idea.”-not all mennot all women

“I was under the impression that the special interests WERE the angry, straight, white, well-armed (and rich) men!”-I know you are joking but will still respond that the special interests are any who consider some particular benefit to themselves as more important than other matters over which they may be neutral.-For example, TaxedEnoughAlready Party folks simply claim they believe they don’t need more or higher taxes. They band together for that purpose as a special interest. (In fact, all political parties are forms of special interest groups whether they are Green Party, Communist Party, Whigs, Socialist Party or even those Republican Party types. The difference is that often the political parties special interest is not one single thing other than keeping their party in power and, thus, themselves in power.) They often favor other things as well, but not uniformly.-Those who distrust their neighbors to always be decent and distrust the government to always be at hand and benevolent often believe access to personal protection is more important than taxes or education or foreign policy. Their special interest is protection of that civil right.-Usually straight people don’t worry about those who aren’t but those who question their own sexuality often are belligerently opposed to anything which might make them soft and thereby expose their secret desires.-Those who want money by taking it from those who have money are a special interest. They accuse those who have money of being greedy even though they are at least as greedy in their desire to take the wealth by mandate rather than by convincing the rich to part with their wealth.

“No wonder tea party cowards hate women, they still haven’t grown out of the girls have cooties stage yet, and never will.”-But girls DO have cooties. (I like cooties.)and surely they don’t all hate women since many of them are women.

I say let the republicans continue down this road. They will go the way of the do do bird! ( and good riddance )

Yessir, just good old funny humor. “He has big lips!” “Should we let the bull kill him?” Just the way we joke about anybody in public life.

And those Black Panthers (both of them): repeating one feeble instance that doesn’t actually support your case over and over doesn’t make it into dozens of convincing examples.

Garry, I haven’t even heard a RINO use a term like special interest groups. Not to say it hasn’t happened, but I don’t think I’ve heard it. Even RINOs know enough to care about individuals, not voting blocks. I would’ve thought you’d know who you’re satirizing better.

DHG— oh, it is the old “Chicago is corrupt” crapola. Chicago hosted many gangsters in the 1930’s, true. So did many other cities. Chicago is no more corrupt than many, many other places.There has been a minuscule amount of documented voter fraud in the US, just as much of it as been shown to be the GOP members, BTW. This certainly does not mean that MILLIONS of people should be disenfranchised by not having the right to vote in this country. Many voters do not have photo ID. Many city voters do not have as many polling places and must wait in extremely long lines. This must be changed. I know this terrifies the GOP, which is becoming a dinosaur, but that is just too bad.

Not to mention the thousands of “women” those angry, well-armed men kill every year (3/day on average in the US).

I trust leaders who are competent regardless of skin color. Martin Luther said it best,“I’d rather be governed by a competent Turk than an incompetent Christian”

" and finally your OWN best interests in LOCAL elections.”Sounds like Soshulism to me! Putting the other guy first? No way!

wow not many conservatives here. This is the most liberal thread I have ever read. And not too mean spirited either