Political Cartoons

I hate that you are right.

There is a quote: “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!” i think by upton sinclair. The rich have motivated blindness toward the harms to society to increase their riches. I wonder how much motivated blindness from the common man we will get if we get another depression.

I understood it was propaganda when it first came out. I just ate it because "we are at war, so we need to support our leaders"... and the war dragged out long past the elimination of Saddam and Bin Laden. I am more jaded now... and i followed enough of the Ukrainian war to be able to tell propaganda better (but i am still susceptible to it dammit).

Obama was great. I didn't have anything specifically against him. I did hate that he expanded the power of the executive branch such that we now have a rule of the executive branch instead of rule of checks and balances. Trump and Biden and Trump have all taken that further. (DOGE got its first legitimacy from Obama precedents, the slew of executive orders really took off during Obama, etc.).

Another comment asked me to pull up a bunch of scriptures, so scriptures are on my brain. here is a scripture that i think is true. it is about "when do you go to war and have god fight your battles for you". It is from the Mormon Prophets, but I can't find any contrary evidence against it in the bible and after praying about it, it seems true:

• D&C 98:23-32 for when you are an individual against an adversary and
• D&C 98:33-38 when you are a nation against another nation.

I hope it doesn't come to that. I have worried since i have known about the national debt about when it will be due to be paid. A little debt is enough to get your neighbors invest in you, a lot of debt must be paid in either blood or cash. I am worried that you are right on all counts.