A Typical Republican... Part II

Now this just makes me angry. See if you can guess why.

(I wish I could ascribe credit and copyright to this, but I have no idea where it came from. Suffice it to say that I hold no claim to it.)

I was once married. I was so very much in love. But, as time went on, she changed. As part of that change, she began to blame me for things that she saw as wrong. She would completely ignore the things that she did that led up to my perceived wrongs. Lawyers, marriage counselors, and people with degrees in psychology would point this out to her, but she would *not* look past my actions. She would not see what *she had done* that gave me no option but to react the ways I did, she only saw what I did.

There are actually tests for psychopathy that include that exact behavior as one of the indicators, suggesting that my now ex-wife had become a psychopath late in our marriage.

I am willing to forgive the damage she did to me. I am NOT willing to forgive the damage she did to our children.

When you have brought children into the world, you have a responsibility to them. Her actions made it obvious to all that she was only concerned with herself.

Now, you may be asking yourself how this applies to the above cartoon. I think its obvious, but I can understand how some people might not see it that way.

So...

When you take a job in government, you take on the responsibility to care for the people that elected you. They should be your first concern. They are the reason you are there, and not just because they elected you, but because our U.S. government is SUPPOSED to be "For, Of, and By, the People".

That is Item One. Item Two is the apparent psychopathy of the Right Wing. The above cartoon takes a slice of a larger story, and, taking it out of context, uses it to illustrate a viewpoint, or stance.

What we aren't shown in the cartoon is that the man at the door was watching out the window, and saw those self same Trick-or-Treaters steal the candy away from all the kids as they left his yard. The "Democrat" in the panel is reacting to things that happened prior to what is shown.

The Right Wing in today's U.S. does this exact same thing. They ignore the actions they have taken, and winge, and moan, and toss out little snippets out of context that they think support them.
On the one hand, they decry the Left Wing "Liberal Ivory Tower" and how they perceive us to assume there's a large segment of the population that are unable to form a cogent thought, while with the other hand, they use demagoguery with wild abandon, thereby illustrating that they believe that the Red voters are exactly those that need small little bite-sized ideas fed to them, in order to create the voters that they want and need...

Remember, kids: A good Citizen is an Informed Citizen. One that knows how to get all the info, think for themselves, (actually think, mind you), and vote accordingly.