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Sunday's Doonesbury- Dark Days (Original Post) n2doc Nov 2013 OP
Glad someone is saying this n/t intaglio Nov 2013 #1
My 2005 version of the Civil War song went like this: DFW Nov 2013 #2
Nice, but your last line is wishful thinking Martin Eden Nov 2013 #19
What kind of soldier is he supposed to be? Quantess Nov 2013 #3
Given the cap and the gray uniform, um, yeah. truebluegreen Nov 2013 #4
1861 n2doc Nov 2013 #5
Yes. Blue tabs for infantry sarge43 Nov 2013 #18
Today's Republicans are just like the Confederates except ... JEFF9K Nov 2013 #6
More racist and more ignorant. Enthusiast Nov 2013 #17
Oh, I can just see the angry letters to the editor now. CBHagman Nov 2013 #7
Being the guy who handles the incoming email re: Doonesbury must be a hoot. (nt) Posteritatis Nov 2013 #14
They are fighting with their last, long, drawn out breath. WCLinolVir Nov 2013 #8
There are other things in play in the South. bvar22 Nov 2013 #15
I'm impressed by the last panel, it's important Babel_17 Nov 2013 #9
Definitely a point worth remembering. (nt) Posteritatis Nov 2013 #13
"...doomed to repeat it." JHB Nov 2013 #10
They told us we were fightin' for Freedom. johnnyreb Nov 2013 #11
Ouch! (nt) Posteritatis Nov 2013 #12
Wow! Enthusiast Nov 2013 #16
Excellent! red dog 1 Nov 2013 #20
Great toon! NealK Nov 2013 #21

DFW

(54,055 posts)
2. My 2005 version of the Civil War song went like this:
Sun Nov 10, 2013, 09:50 AM
Nov 2013

When Johnny comes rolling home again, Iraq, Iraq!
We know he'll never roam again, Iraq, Iraq!
His legs don't work and his shoulder droops
But that's O.K., we support the troops
And we'll all think twice when Johnny comes rolling home.

Martin Eden

(12,803 posts)
19. Nice, but your last line is wishful thinking
Sun Nov 10, 2013, 07:13 PM
Nov 2013

Too many people who shouted USA USA USA when we invaded Iraq aren't capable of thinking once, let alone twice.

sarge43

(28,939 posts)
18. Yes. Blue tabs for infantry
Sun Nov 10, 2013, 06:59 PM
Nov 2013

If he doesn't die of wounds, disease or slow starvation, he'll come home missing a limb -- if he still has a home.

CBHagman

(16,968 posts)
7. Oh, I can just see the angry letters to the editor now.
Sun Nov 10, 2013, 11:30 AM
Nov 2013

And I just checked to make certain The Washington Post ran the strip, and they did, so I'll have a ringside seat as the cranks come out to express their disapproval.

WCLinolVir

(951 posts)
8. They are fighting with their last, long, drawn out breath.
Sun Nov 10, 2013, 11:46 AM
Nov 2013

The south is becoming more blue thanks to the African Americans voter participation increase and influx from other states. I'm grateful that Obama got people to the polls who realize that they can change history and their participation matters.The people who are trying to live in the past already are, in certain areas, the minority. They don't own the south anymore.

bvar22

(39,909 posts)
15. There are other things in play in the South.
Sun Nov 10, 2013, 05:09 PM
Nov 2013

LBJ predicted that the South would be lost for a generation.
Well, that generation is OVER!

The BIGGEST difference in the modern South today is the Internet and Sat TV.
Everybody is CONNECTED.
Information is the antidote to ignorance.
Education and exposure is the antidote to bigotry.

The prevalence of Internet and Sat TV has greatly diluted the captive audience of the preachers and parents of the past. The "Old Ways" are dying.

The South is BEAUTIFUL,
and belongs to us all.
It would be a shame to just give it away.

In 2006, we left a Big Blue Northern City
and moved to the Red, Rural South.
We won't be going back.

--bvar22 & Starkraven

Babel_17

(5,400 posts)
9. I'm impressed by the last panel, it's important
Sun Nov 10, 2013, 12:40 PM
Nov 2013

Just like then, "it's a rich man's war but a poor man's fight". The ideologues stay home, in comfort.

The Confederacy soon got in to class problems as shortages occurred. “It’s a rich man’s war, but a poor man’s fight.” was most commonly heard during this time because the rich could pay out for a substitute in war and end up not fighting.


http://prezi.com/93wjbqqa-82z/confederate-states-of-america/

All through the red states we see Republican propagandists harangue the populace into supporting policies that go against their self interest. They sacrifice while their votes enable a class of Mammon worshiping materialists.

JHB

(37,132 posts)
10. "...doomed to repeat it."
Sun Nov 10, 2013, 01:24 PM
Nov 2013

I like to use this (conservative) political cartoon from 1860. The characterization of Lincoln and his supporters would be at home at any Tea Party rally -- where it'd be used to describe Democrats.

“People who just want stuff”: 1860

See if you recognize the playbook:

http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2003674590/

"The Republican Party Going to the Right House"

Lincoln rides in on a (fence) rail, carried by Horace Greely (anti-slavery editor of the New York Tribune), leading his followers into a lunatic asylum.
GREELY: "Hold on to me Abe, and we'll go in here by the unanimous consent of the people."
LINCOLN: "Now my friends I'm almost in, and the millennium is going to begin, so ask what you will and it shall be granted."

Younger Woman: "Oh! what a beautiful man he is, I feel a passionate attraction' every time I see his lovely face."
Bearded Man: "I represent the free love element, and expect to have free license to carry out its principles."
Man with trim beard and hat: "I want religion abolished and the book of Mormon made the standard of morality."
Caricatured black man: "De white man hab no rights dat cullud pussons am bound to spect' I want dat understood."
Older woman: "I want womans rights enforced, and man reduced in subjection to her authority."
Scruffy man with bottle: "I want everybody to have a share of everybody elses property."
Barefoot man: "I want a hotel established by government, where people that aint inclined to work, can board free of expense, and be found in rum and tobacco."
Seedy top-hat man: " I want guaranteed to every Citizen the right to examine every other citizen's pockets without interruption by Policemen."
Man at the end: "I want all the stations houses burned up, and the M.P.s killed, so that the bohoys can run with the machine and have a muss when they please."
Let’s go down the list, shall we?:
Supported by "liberal media": Check
Liberals will embark on profligate giveaways to THOSE PEOPLE? Check.
Flighty, emotional, entranced by charisma/celebrity? Check.
People conservatives consider sexual deviants? Check.
People conservatives consider religious deviants? Check (and how ironic, this particular turn).
Grasping minorities after special rights? Check.
"Feminazis"? Check.
There's a vast army of layabouts, terrorists, and outright thieves who want to take your hard-earned stuff? Check, check, check, and check.

A hundred and fifty years later, and they're playing the same tune.
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