I found it interesting that in some of Tom Clancy’s books, Jack Ryan Jr. always listened to NPR to be informed. And Clancy was not exactly what the fright-wingers would call a liberal.
A good continuation of Saturday’s strip. Reminds me of the song from Cabaret that the emcee sings while dancing with a gorilla. (Punchline: “she hardly looks … Jewish … at all,” which in Germany at the time was dangerous satire.) Yeah, that’s Carmen—not worried that his relatives are dangerous carnivores, but that their viewpoints don’t agree with hers.
Ignatz points out a critical issue. The notion that NPR is considered leftist is closely correlated with the regressives’ impulse to reject facts that disturb them.
I’m so glad to be wrong!Scott really did want to continue the arc!
By the by, a couple dozen years ago, local radio host Mike Rosen, a fairly hard right commentator, did a poll on the left-ness vs. right-ness of various media outlets in its day. As Gomer Pyle would say, “Surprise, surprise, surprise!” – NPR fell smack dab in the middle!
So much so, that Utah Phillips, song writer (and lover of trains) wrote a song bemoaning the fact that NPR was no longer hard left!
The top three reasons I am NOT a Liberal, or Progressive, as they now call themselves: 1) There are no free lunches. All wonderful government social programs, benefits, and services must someday, in some way, be paid for. And “tax the rich” won’t suffice. 2) The bureaucracies required to administer those government benefits and services inevitably become too inept, demanding, and intrusive to tolerate. 3) Liberals are remarkably intolerant of different opinions. They almost automatically define disagreement as “hate”, and accuse anyone who does have the temerity to disagree as having cognitive deficits, or "lacking critical thinking ability’.
Educated Democratic Americans know that our democracy and rule of law are under attack. Tolerance of one’s oppressors is a hard thing to come by. Educated Republican Americans know that Republicans temporarily rule the country. GOP tolerance (sincere or not) comes with no risk.
Out of the 432 Dartmouth College students responding to a survey, 63 percent identified as Democrat, 23 percent as Republican and 14 percent as independent.
Because of small sample size issues, the difference between the percentage of Democrats who said they were comfortable and the percentage who said uncomfortable was not statistically significant.
President of Dartmouth College Democrats Charlie Blatt ’18 said she was not surprised that most Republicans reported they were comfortable with having a Democratic roommate, given that a majority of students at the College are Democrats. “It’s unfortunate — I wish we had more political diversity,” she said. “I think the dialogue is good.”
Vice president of the Dartmouth College Republicans Abraham Herrera ’18 echoed Blatt’s sentiment, saying that since Republicans are a minority on campus, they will end up with a roommate of opposing political views the majority of the time anyway.
More people when asked about things like Social Security without the buzz words tend to support it over not. Regardless of party affiliation. The Libertarians and most of the wealthy don’t care if they are in the minority, they still think it is their right to limit govt to just a few things. While putting the rest into independent hands. For profit hands at that.
^ Ignatz, I agree. I believe in a strong national defense, but I have to wonder where all that money is going.
Preparing to defend the world against an attack by Klingons or the Borg?
Developing a method of deflecting an asteroid on a collision course with Earth?
Bribes to foreign despots?
Developing warp drive? Antigravity? Settlements on and terraforming Mars?
Developing force field / shielding technology?
On WHAT THE HECK is America spending so much money?
Look at it this way: The interstate road system and other roads were built for national defense. Why are we allowing our roads and bridges to crumble? Good roads and bridges, right down to village streets, are part of the infrastructure needed for national defense and for business.
Healthy citizens are needed for national defense. Why don’t we have good health care like every other developed country?
The school lunch program was started because so many young men and women were deemed too malnourished to join the military in World War II. Yet the right decries such programs.
The only answer seems to be that a handful of people want most of the money and all of the political power, and an outsized military puts money in their pockets.
Darsan54 Premium Member over 6 years ago
Oooh. And NOW who’s being intolerant ……….. huh, snowflake?
Baslim the Beggar Premium Member over 6 years ago
I found it interesting that in some of Tom Clancy’s books, Jack Ryan Jr. always listened to NPR to be informed. And Clancy was not exactly what the fright-wingers would call a liberal.
ikini Premium Member over 6 years ago
A good continuation of Saturday’s strip. Reminds me of the song from Cabaret that the emcee sings while dancing with a gorilla. (Punchline: “she hardly looks … Jewish … at all,” which in Germany at the time was dangerous satire.) Yeah, that’s Carmen—not worried that his relatives are dangerous carnivores, but that their viewpoints don’t agree with hers.
SeanT over 6 years ago
Wait for it. I like where this is going.
Ignatz Premium Member over 6 years ago
I always think it’s interesting that conservatives consider NPR – the most “just the facts” straightforward news cast that there is – to be “liberal.”
twclix over 6 years ago
Ignatz points out a critical issue. The notion that NPR is considered leftist is closely correlated with the regressives’ impulse to reject facts that disturb them.
Push to talk over 6 years ago
Not the shirts, the tote bags.
Cheapskate0 over 6 years ago
I’m so glad to be wrong! Scott really did want to continue the arc!
By the by, a couple dozen years ago, local radio host Mike Rosen, a fairly hard right commentator, did a poll on the left-ness vs. right-ness of various media outlets in its day. As Gomer Pyle would say, “Surprise, surprise, surprise!” – NPR fell smack dab in the middle!
So much so, that Utah Phillips, song writer (and lover of trains) wrote a song bemoaning the fact that NPR was no longer hard left!
Holden Awn over 6 years ago
The top three reasons I am NOT a Liberal, or Progressive, as they now call themselves: 1) There are no free lunches. All wonderful government social programs, benefits, and services must someday, in some way, be paid for. And “tax the rich” won’t suffice. 2) The bureaucracies required to administer those government benefits and services inevitably become too inept, demanding, and intrusive to tolerate. 3) Liberals are remarkably intolerant of different opinions. They almost automatically define disagreement as “hate”, and accuse anyone who does have the temerity to disagree as having cognitive deficits, or "lacking critical thinking ability’.
Guy Fawkes over 6 years ago
Educated Democratic Americans know that our democracy and rule of law are under attack. Tolerance of one’s oppressors is a hard thing to come by. Educated Republican Americans know that Republicans temporarily rule the country. GOP tolerance (sincere or not) comes with no risk.
Out of the 432 Dartmouth College students responding to a survey, 63 percent identified as Democrat, 23 percent as Republican and 14 percent as independent.
Because of small sample size issues, the difference between the percentage of Democrats who said they were comfortable and the percentage who said uncomfortable was not statistically significant.
President of Dartmouth College Democrats Charlie Blatt ’18 said she was not surprised that most Republicans reported they were comfortable with having a Democratic roommate, given that a majority of students at the College are Democrats. “It’s unfortunate — I wish we had more political diversity,” she said. “I think the dialogue is good.”
Vice president of the Dartmouth College Republicans Abraham Herrera ’18 echoed Blatt’s sentiment, saying that since Republicans are a minority on campus, they will end up with a roommate of opposing political views the majority of the time anyway.
http://www.thedartmouth.com/article/2017/04/a-survey-of-dartmouths-political-landscape
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] over 6 years ago
More people when asked about things like Social Security without the buzz words tend to support it over not. Regardless of party affiliation. The Libertarians and most of the wealthy don’t care if they are in the minority, they still think it is their right to limit govt to just a few things. While putting the rest into independent hands. For profit hands at that.
piobaire over 6 years ago
^ Ignatz, I agree. I believe in a strong national defense, but I have to wonder where all that money is going.
Preparing to defend the world against an attack by Klingons or the Borg?
Developing a method of deflecting an asteroid on a collision course with Earth?
Bribes to foreign despots?
Developing warp drive? Antigravity? Settlements on and terraforming Mars?
Developing force field / shielding technology?
On WHAT THE HECK is America spending so much money?
Look at it this way: The interstate road system and other roads were built for national defense. Why are we allowing our roads and bridges to crumble? Good roads and bridges, right down to village streets, are part of the infrastructure needed for national defense and for business.
Healthy citizens are needed for national defense. Why don’t we have good health care like every other developed country?
The school lunch program was started because so many young men and women were deemed too malnourished to join the military in World War II. Yet the right decries such programs.
The only answer seems to be that a handful of people want most of the money and all of the political power, and an outsized military puts money in their pockets.