Monty by Jim Meddick for September 26, 2017

In the case of right-wingers, wouldn’t “think tank” be an oxymoron?

If only Bill and Hillary knew about Monty’s need to publish a children’s book, maybe they would havedonated from the Clinton Foundation. Not!

it ain’t only the right wing extremists who don’t allow individual thinking, it is also on the left wing extreme too. Just being extreme in anything is like putting a box around your brain.

A sad ending is just in line with the old tales.

Yeah, it’s the right wingers rioting and beating the tar out of you on campus’ across the nation for not conforming…. good grief.

And another one bites the dust. Man, I was really hoping to get a chuckle from reading comics, today. Not politics.

Ugh

Jim Meddick, stop this now. I have unsubscribed from three of my alltime favorites in the last few months and would hate to lose another, but if you think that the people in this country that actually know what’s up with politics consider this tripe funny, you’re woefully wrong.

Jim, I think the character of Monty should be taller and have different color hair. I’ll send a detailed list of my corrections along soon, so that the strip can appeal to me directly, and to hell with everybody else.

The allegory is interesting, as it could be interpreted as conservative as indicated, but it could also be seen as a liberal analogy. For example, the popular snack item is pretzels, and the potato chip is attempting to conform to something it’s not, literally twisting itself in knots just to fit in. In the end all the effort is for not, and while it still winds up rejected, it also loses its identity in the search for other’s approval. Or you could read it as, deep down, the potato chip feels it is a pretzel, and conventional norms dictate ostracizing those who refuse to conform. Or Monty was just hungry while he was writing.

Oooooh, this is getting good.

Fortunately, Monty’s editorial cartoon-cum-children’s book will not garner much attention outside the snack foods industry….