G.B. Trudeau's Doonesbury Knocks One Out Of The Park Today

[kpete]

If you feel like something is wrong with what passes for political dialog in this country lately, if you are sick of people who condemn "both sides" for being equally at fault, if you have this feeling of Déja Vu creeping over you, if you think the media is totally clueless about what and who we're dealing with…

Trudeau nails it today.




via:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/11/10/1254540/-G-B-Trudeau-s-Doonesbury-Knocks-One-Out-Of-The-Park-Today

[Baitball Blogger]

1. Chilling.

[JHB]

2. Speaking of Déja Vu...

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I like to use this (conservative) political cartoon from 1860. The characterization of Lincoln and his supporters would be at home at any Tea Party rally -- where it'd be used to describe Democrats in general and liberals in particular.

“People who just want stuff”: 1860

See if you recognize the playbook:

http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2003674590/

"The Republican Party Going to the Right House"

Lincoln rides in on a rail (fence rail, that is), carried by Horace Greely (anti-slavery editor of the New York Tribune), leading his followers into a lunatic asylum.
GREELY: "Hold on to me Abe, and we'll go in here by the unanimous consent of the people."
LINCOLN: "Now my friends I'm almost in, and the millennium is going to begin, so ask what you will and it shall be granted."

Younger Woman: "Oh! what a beautiful man he is, I feel a passionate attraction' every time I see his lovely face."
Bearded Man: "I represent the free love element, and expect to have free license to carry out its principles."
Man with trim beard and hat: "I want religion abolished and the book of Mormon made the standard of morality."
Caricatured black man: "De white man hab no rights dat cullud pussons am bound to spect' I want dat understood."
Older woman: "I want womans rights enforced, and man reduced in subjection to her authority."
Scruffy man with bottle: "I want everybody to have a share of everybody elses property."
Barefoot man: "I want a hotel established by government, where people that aint inclined to work, can board free of expense, and be found in rum and tobacco."
Seedy top-hat man: " I want guaranteed to every Citizen the right to examine every other citizen's pockets without interruption by Policemen."
Man at the end: "I want all the stations houses burned up, and the M.P.s killed, so that the bohoys can run with the machine and have a muss when they please."

Let’s go down the list, shall we?:
Supported by "liberal media": Check
Liberals will embark on profligate giveaways to THOSE PEOPLE? Check.
Flighty, emotional, entranced by charisma/celebrity? Check.
People conservatives consider sexual deviants? Check.
People conservatives consider religious deviants? Check (and how ironic, this particular turn).
Grasping minorities after special rights? Check.
"Feminazis"? Check.
There's a vast army of layabouts, drug users, thugs, and outright thieves who want to take your hard-earned stuff? Check, check, check, and check.

A hundred and fifty years later, and they're playing the same tune.

[radiclib]

3. Awesome!

I'd like to have that blown up, framed and hung on my wall. Thank you.

[DirkGently]

5. Wow. Remarkable parallels.

...as are the muttered threats of violence and secession we still hear whenever progress threatens.

[gtar100]

6. Wow! Still playing the same tune. I guess human nature does not change

all that quickly. But 150 years later and only a minor translation is required to modernize it, that's scary. No wonder conservatives are so afraid of education. It is their demise because putting their ideas and values in historical perspective shows clearly just how ridiculous and self-serving they are.

[Jester Messiah]

4. And I'm sure the 'baggers think so too.

Of course, my question to those "Civil War II" types is, okay, who are you going to go out and shoot first? Who shall be the first to die for your glorious reclamation of 'Murca?

[AlbertCat]

7. I doubt...

..... anyone would be drinking coffee out of a mug in 1861....