Jul. 14th, 2011

[identity profile] ice-hesitant.livejournal.com
Give the loose definition of "political cartoon" in these parts, I thought I'd post this:



And an interesting follow-up response to YouTube trolls:

[identity profile] dwer.livejournal.com


"Reconstituting the Submerged State: The Challenges of Social Policy Reform in the Obama Era," a paper by Cornell's Clinton Rossiter Professor of American Institutions Suzanne Mettler features this remarkable chart showing that about half of American social program beneficiaries believe that they "have not used a government social program." It's the "Keep your government hands off my Medicare" phenomena writ large: a society of people who subsist on mutual aid and redistributive policies who've been conned (and conned themselves) into thinking that they are rugged individualists and that everyone else is a parasite.

Louis CK

Jul. 14th, 2011 08:20 pm
[identity profile] anfalicious.livejournal.com


White people have our own things to cope with, like when they took our slaves away, so it's pretty even :P

Profile

Political Cartoons

March 2023

S M T W T F S
   1234
567891011
121314151617 18
19202122232425
262728293031 

Most Popular Tags

Style Credit

Expand Cut Tags

No cut tags
Page generated Jun. 9th, 2025 03:31 pm
Powered by Dreamwidth Studios