Powerful TOON- "Democracy"

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[geckosfeet]

1. +1

Custer's last stand

[GeorgeGist]

2. It looks more like ...

Capitalism to me.

[stlsaxman]

13. bingo... thanks for speaking up!

[Remember Me]

14. Yes, but that's what GOP politicians really mean when they

applaud "Freedom" -- they really mean capitalism.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

3. Something a little odd I notice about the toon, though....

The people sitting around the feast table are all white men...That's in keeping with the repuke extremist new world regime fascist platform,

BUT

look closely and you'll see that the circle of people around the perimeter is entirely male. White male, looks like, though that's a little bit tough to discern.

But definitely there are no women included in the larger group.


Just a little bit of an odd oversight on the cartoonist's part that I thought I'd point out.

[Doc Holliday]

4. Perhaps

the women are all standing waaaay back behind the men...Where They Should Be.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

5. ;)

LOL!!



by the way...love your screen name!! I love the movie Tombstone and I've got a crush on Val Kilmer as Doc Holiday. What a great character!

You're a daisy!

[chervilant]

7. OMG!

I thought I was the only one!

"I'm your huckleberry." Lord have mercy!

(BTW, I suspect that the cartoonist deliberately portrayed all men, in keeping with the patriarchal roots of 'democracy.')

[jwirr]

8. Or they are in the kitchen barefoot and pregnant. I also noticed that the ones on the outer circle

are all dressed in suits?

[eyewall]

6. I see at least 8 women in the front row.

Just a quick perusal. They are wearing dresses, I assume that means they are women.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

10. anyone else see that? I don't

I looked really really closely; all I see are little guys wearing suits and overcoats, some with hats.....

[eyewall]

11. The two figures on either side of the guy in the center

look to me like they're wearing dresses and are leaning with one bent leg into the guy next to them. They look like a flopped cut and paste. Then over on the left there are several characters that I thought had bare legs, as well as a couple on the other side, but now that I look again, the legs could be the lines between the pants of guy figures.

Anyway, I agree with you that women are not represented, even if there are only a few.

[Bozita]

9. That toon reminded me of this one...

[silverweb]

12. Real democracy doesn't exist anymore.

[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]Review your Carlin.

What we call "democracy" these days is mostly an illusion. This just another name for plutarchy (oligarchy + plutocracy), with the plutarchs now openly being corporate heads. This is a somewhat updated and slightly more gentle version (for now) of fascism, which is just a modern variant of the old feudal system.

[Lucky Luciano]

15. A lot said in that picture. nt

[abelenkpe]

16. Wow.

What a picture!

[Bozita]

17. !