Demolition Derby Democracy, Crash #4283
8:26 pm | Attention Deficit Democracy | Democracy | Elective Dictatorship
The real irony is that people expect from progress from elections.
(cartoon by Tom Toles, Washington Post)
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Lawrence
Comment on Wednesday 27th October 2010 @ 10:00 am
Don’t you wish that people who really voted in this way had some kind of ridiculous telltale residual that would announce to the world their repetitive gullibility? Like maybe permanent bird-dropping on the forehead? Sadly, the new vehicles with their radar-controlled crash-proofiness will make this cartoon an impossibility in a few years!
alpowolf
Comment on Wednesday 27th October 2010 @ 4:51 pm
Good, Lawrence, although the bird-dropping thing would only be funny to people like us. The media and politicians would declare the bird-dropping to be a “badge of honor”, and all too many people would believe it. They’d form a “Bird-dropping Badge of Honor Society” and pay monthly dues with pride.
Sorry to be such a crank; I’m getting fed up with the “civic duty” crowd.
Jim
Comment on Thursday 28th October 2010 @ 7:08 am
Even worse, they might consent to involuntary withholding from their paychecks to pay for the bird droppings.
Lawrence
Comment on Thursday 28th October 2010 @ 2:09 pm
alpowolf, yes, I’m losing my patience to. And Jim, surely you are being cynical. The bird-dropping worshippers would surely allow us to check off a donation to their cause on our purely voluntary annual IRS filings, wouldn’t they?
Lawrence
Comment on Thursday 28th October 2010 @ 2:10 pm
that’s “too”
Jim Bovard
Comment on Thursday 28th October 2010 @ 3:10 pm
I would be curious if someone took a survey at Tea Party gatherings — preferably timed right after the Pledge of Allegiance.
how many of those folks believe that taxes are voluntary???
stone58
Comment on Sunday 16th January 2011 @ 12:15 am
The real irony is that people expect from progress from elections.(cartoon by Tom Toles, Washington Post)Don
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