I don't know why no one points this shit out, but here goes. Look at the source of your cartoon, the Americans for Limited Government (https://getliberty.org/) organization. This is so obviously a propaganda outlet it just screams for further research.
Sure enough, it's web work is handled by The Mace Group, an outfit started by Nancy Mace (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Mace), author and failed US House candidate. A list (http://macegroupllc.com/) of other web sites handled by the Mace Group lists lots of GOP congress critters and, like the Americans for Limited Gov, other propaganda sites. Which is weird, since the Mace web site says The Mace Group does PR work for "clients in a variety of industries." "Variety" means hard-right congressional candidates and propaganda outfits? Interesting.
This shows me that a shit-ton of money is flowing to these people from one of the very rich sponsors, perhaps even one listed in Jane Mayer's "Dark Money." These billionaires and the multi-millionaires who support them flood the media with cash in order to change laws into laws (or the absence of law) that will make them more money. Well-known names such as Betsy DeVos are part of this funding apparatus. Oh, and you should be hearing a bunch about Rebeka Mercer soon! Her dad's father might have been instrumental (https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/how-our-likes-helped-trump-win) in getting Trump elected!
Bottom line, these groups and about a gazillion others have been pushing the buttons of folks like white nationalists, the hyper-religious, gun groupies, and several others for one simple reason: they are values voters, people who will use their personal values ahead of their economic well-being as a voting litmus test. Take evangelical voters: According to Gallup, "an evangelical voter with $50,000 in annual income is as likely to be a Republican as a nonevangelical voter with $100,000 in annual income." (Jacob S. Hacker & Paul Pierson, Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer—And Turned Its Back on the Middle Class, Simon & Schuster, 2010, p. 149.)
That is amazingly important, since, according to researcher Larry Bartels, US lawmakers currently vote the issues important to people earning in the top third of the income distribution (Ibid, p. 110). Worse, this means they vote against issues of the bottom two thirds. Meaning values voters are actively voting against their own financial and legal interests by pursuing the rhetorical candy of white nationalists, anti-abortion absolutists, 2nd Amendment fanatics, etc.
These people (like our Tigger-on X) are getting played, and its evidently working. Against them.
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Sure enough, it's web work is handled by The Mace Group, an outfit started by Nancy Mace (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Mace), author and failed US House candidate. A list (http://macegroupllc.com/) of other web sites handled by the Mace Group lists lots of GOP congress critters and, like the Americans for Limited Gov, other propaganda sites. Which is weird, since the Mace web site says The Mace Group does PR work for "clients in a variety of industries." "Variety" means hard-right congressional candidates and propaganda outfits? Interesting.
This shows me that a shit-ton of money is flowing to these people from one of the very rich sponsors, perhaps even one listed in Jane Mayer's "Dark Money." These billionaires and the multi-millionaires who support them flood the media with cash in order to change laws into laws (or the absence of law) that will make them more money. Well-known names such as Betsy DeVos are part of this funding apparatus. Oh, and you should be hearing a bunch about Rebeka Mercer soon! Her dad's father might have been instrumental (https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/how-our-likes-helped-trump-win) in getting Trump elected!
Bottom line, these groups and about a gazillion others have been pushing the buttons of folks like white nationalists, the hyper-religious, gun groupies, and several others for one simple reason: they are values voters, people who will use their personal values ahead of their economic well-being as a voting litmus test. Take evangelical voters: According to Gallup, "an evangelical voter with $50,000 in annual income is as likely to be a Republican as a nonevangelical voter with $100,000 in annual income." (Jacob S. Hacker & Paul Pierson, Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer—And Turned Its Back on the Middle Class, Simon & Schuster, 2010, p. 149.)
That is amazingly important, since, according to researcher Larry Bartels, US lawmakers currently vote the issues important to people earning in the top third of the income distribution (Ibid, p. 110). Worse, this means they vote against issues of the bottom two thirds. Meaning values voters are actively voting against their own financial and legal interests by pursuing the rhetorical candy of white nationalists, anti-abortion absolutists, 2nd Amendment fanatics, etc.
These people (like our Tigger-on X) are getting played, and its evidently working. Against them.