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It Sounded Crazy in 1948
This little cartoon is worth the nine minutes it takes to watch it.
Quaint is it not? What must it have been like to live in America when it was a free country, and one's only contact with the Federal government was the post office? *Sigh*
How do you like the taste of "ism" Obots?
PS....Is it just me, or does John Q. Public remind you of Ron Paul?
1 comments:
we love it.
one tends to hear whatever one wants to hear.
for example, we hear the last line:
"when anybody
preaches disunity, class warfare, race hatred
or religious intolerance, you know that person
seeks to rob us of our freedom and destroy
our very lives."
what do you hear?
a little critical thinking is in order.
here we have an propaganda cartoon
aimed at countering Communism.
in favor of what? Corporat-ism.
ism? but wait, ism? really?
yep.
the first gasoline-powered automobile
was invented by Karl Friedrich Benz (1844-1929).
in Germany.
o'course the first electric car was invented
fifty years earlier, also in Germany,
by Robert Anderson.
and those pesky French, you know,
the people who funded us, and fought
along side of us in the American
Revolutionary War, they invented the
the steam-propelled car one hundred years
earlier. under a Monarchy!
point is inventiveness has no borders.
if one falls asleep one would miss other fine points.
for example American farmers are the most
heavily subsidized in the world, largely to
direct what crops should be grown.
what, you say? state planning. well, yes.
that was the case in 1948 when this cartoon was
produced, and its the case today.
o'course back in the good ole
days we had share-croppers,
you mostly lynch-able people
who rode the back of the bus
and "knew their place".
today we have migrant-workers,
you know "illegals".
and, the majority of our farming is done
by Agribusiness (read corporations)
instead of small farmers.
then there's labor. there's no question
that without Organized Labor,
there would be no eight-hour day,
paid vacations, weekends,
pensions, or - - - middle class.
one only has to look at the decline in Unions.
As unions have declined in numbers, and the
ability to influence economic policy has
as a consequence also declined,
jobs have been exported overseas,
and the middle class, well she ain't
what she used to be.
we can thank Reagan's firing of
the Air Traffic Controllers and
Trickle-down Voodoonomics for that one.
{oh, and lets not leave out Blue Dog
democrats like the Clintons with their
"Free Trade" agreements.}
free enterprise. are we having fun yet?
we could go on and on, and point out how
"good" and "free" the good ole days were.
its better to leave it alone.
though we need to be a little more careful
with our "isms". dogma has its place,
but it should not replace common sense
and critical thinking.
there's plenty of room for improvement,
and its not gonna come from the
politics-as-sport that we follow
in the USofA.
want to find the source of
our troubles? follow the money.
thanks for the cartoon.
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