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A post on The Daily Cartoonist.
That Lisa Benson has to be one of the most consistently RWNJ, consistently crackpot political cartoonists that I've seen, and I wouldn't be seeing her work at all if not for The Daily Cartoonist, because why would I? The commentary from Mike Peterson underneath them, which typically fully counters and debunks the crackpottery, is the only reason they're even remotely palatable in this context.
"We talk about those who cry 'The sky is falling' but how many of us know how the fable ends? In the story, the sky is not falling, but the fox takes advantage of the panicked, gullible poultry to lure them to their own destruction.
"You don't have to like and admire the fox, but he's not the one to blame.
"Without the willing cooperation of pliable fools, he'd have gone hungry."
In the case of the United States, I believe that both the fox and the poultry are to blame and that there are some pigs in the middle facilitating the interactions between the fox and the poultry.
I feel the need to post this again, too, which is just as relevant now as it was when I first wrote it back in January 2017, if not even more so. "Inverse Hanlon's Razor" should be applied to all three branches of federal government now, not to mention far too many state and local governments.
"Never dismiss as mere stupidity that which is indeed actively malicious."
That Lisa Benson has to be one of the most consistently RWNJ, consistently crackpot political cartoonists that I've seen, and I wouldn't be seeing her work at all if not for The Daily Cartoonist, because why would I? The commentary from Mike Peterson underneath them, which typically fully counters and debunks the crackpottery, is the only reason they're even remotely palatable in this context.
"We talk about those who cry 'The sky is falling' but how many of us know how the fable ends? In the story, the sky is not falling, but the fox takes advantage of the panicked, gullible poultry to lure them to their own destruction.
"You don't have to like and admire the fox, but he's not the one to blame.
"Without the willing cooperation of pliable fools, he'd have gone hungry."
In the case of the United States, I believe that both the fox and the poultry are to blame and that there are some pigs in the middle facilitating the interactions between the fox and the poultry.
I feel the need to post this again, too, which is just as relevant now as it was when I first wrote it back in January 2017, if not even more so. "Inverse Hanlon's Razor" should be applied to all three branches of federal government now, not to mention far too many state and local governments.
"Never dismiss as mere stupidity that which is indeed actively malicious."
