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Dragonfli

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11. Yes, I can certainly see it as the "One That Walks Towards Omelas"

Tue May 13, 2014, 08:35 PM

May 2014

What strikes me is how easily the population is led not to a Utopia for them fueled by the hardship of the one sacrificed, but led instead to a Utopia that is only for the few (or the one) as a result of THEIR lemming like drive towards their OWN sacrifice. I think the last panel describes the thinking of many that support their own downfall, they may one day be the one leading the Utopian existence.

Most of us are guilty of this of course, myself included, I voted for the Dem corporate elite that are leading my state, my district, and my country towards what is currently resulting in my own deep poverty. I did so not because I felt I will be the wealthy one someday, but because part of me is still living thirty five years in the past when such votes would have helped me and my neighbors, I am old enough to remember our party's war on poverty before it became the war on the poor.

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More and more people are becoming aware of how screwed we the 99% are with no help [View all] Dragonfli May 2014 OP

We must adopt a zero tolerance policy toward corporatism. reformist2 May 2014 #1

Our survival may depend on just that Dragonfli May 2014 #7

I think 2naSalit May 2014 #21

There are only two ways we can all be equal, we can pull everyone up or .. Fumesucker May 2014 #2

That is one I have never seen Dragonfli May 2014 #3

I think of it as The One Who Walks Towards Omelas Fumesucker May 2014 #5

Yes, I can certainly see it as the "One That Walks Towards Omelas" Dragonfli May 2014 #11

Fantastic cartoon. And the ignorant assholes need it thrown in their face over and over and over nomorenomore08 May 2014 #25

There is a view that it will have to Implode Under it's Own Weight. KoKo May 2014 #4

Not so jumbled, I know how you feel. Dragonfli May 2014 #6

Understand what you say.... KoKo May 2014 #9

I wouldn't be too quick to 2naSalit May 2014 #23

Thanks for that info on Montana. KoKo May 2014 #40

Yup. 2naSalit May 2014 #41

Brother we have only one soltution. dilby May 2014 #8

Well said.... KoKo May 2014 #10

+1 2naSalit May 2014 #24

That is part of the solution, I speak often to my neighbors and they are as poor as I am Dragonfli May 2014 #13

Two words. denbot May 2014 #12

That is exactly how my wife & I felt after Kerry's 2004 Campaign, bvar22 May 2014 #14

Strange, but that is the election when I first began to feel the way I now do Dragonfli May 2014 #18

Sorry to hear about your wife. bvar22 May 2014 #47

Thank you, she has been gone 8 years now and I still don't know how I manage to Dragonfli May 2014 #49

solidarity, brother grasswire May 2014 #15

The Low Road grasswire May 2014 #16

United we do indeed have a shot at survival, but most of what I see in GD Dragonfli May 2014 #17

Thanks for writing this! adirondacker May 2014 #19

Solidarity is what is needed most right now! Dragonfli May 2014 #20

I realize 99% vs 1% is an empowering concept FrodosPet May 2014 #22

They are not suffering yet which explains their lack of concern Dragonfli May 2014 #26

K&R DeSwiss May 2014 #27

k&r for the basic truth. MannyGoldstein May 2014 #28

There is I think a growing army of desperate people yearning for someone Dragonfli May 2014 #30

So, you'll be leaving DU then? brooklynite May 2014 #29

It's kind of like our house was occupied by a band of grifters MannyGoldstein May 2014 #31

LOL said much more plainly and succinctly than my rambling reply Manny Dragonfli May 2014 #33

Nothing about reforming the party in the OP. Just stuff about how we don't have a party anymore redqueen May 2014 #43

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I don't like Republicans, that is true, even when they masquerade as Democrats while they laugh Dragonfli May 2014 #32

But, Unknown Beatle May 2014 #34

I think that if you make it a personal thing about him you would be called out Dragonfli May 2014 #35

Organize and Mobilize. Octafish May 2014 #36

Indeed, we are legion! United, organized and mobilized only extreme violence could stop us. Dragonfli May 2014 #38

I have learned since I've become gerrymandered that the street mmonk May 2014 #37

K&R It only ends when enough of us demand it does. raouldukelives May 2014 #39

"We have allowed the party of the people to devolve into a co-conspirator" FiveGoodMen May 2014 #42

i was thinking that the new discussion site mentioned by Skinner yesterday may actually be a more xiamiam May 2014 #46

oh, come on now, pull yourself up by your boot straps. boston bean May 2014 #44

the only good news is that after obama many of us realize the truth of both sides of same coin xiamiam May 2014 #45