I have to agree with your political cartoon.

This problem is as old as America itself.
Capitalism is given to such malignancies.
http://www.fairfightfilm.org/images.....n_trust_lg.jpg

yes, but the political class and the rich company owners have learned from the past and have made a system where it's pretty damn hard to get people to realize the truth. you have to tell people to ignore their emotions.

...and to swallow their own pride.
It's not easy for many people, to confess, even to themselves, that they've been taught, and have believed, nothing but lies their entire lives. Esp. when those people have invested so much of their existence into those lies.

it's actually a really interesting subject how they learned to capture, and then form public opinion rather then them responding to public opinion.
the lessons learned in ww1(allies side.) and from ww2(josiph gerbils) shape modern political advertising. and even product advertising.

to use a tired analogy, it really is letting the fox guard the chicken coup.

The word "Demagogue" was invented by the Greeks of Antiquity, to describe this exact type of person.
They've been around since forever.
And that is not a flattering commentary on our species.

kind of reminds me of the old film Brazil - but that is more bureaucracy, but epic film

on a side note, all the american propaganda i am seeing is just sad....biggest mud slinging and 'slagging off match' ever seen....

Brazil....I love that movie. Such a mind blower!!!

This is a pretty good breakdown of the way things run 90% of the time.

i disagree, 98 to 99 percent of the time.
the picture is missing a reporter sucking on his, well you know. they don't do any investigative stuff any more. they just go team red said this, team blue said that. etc

It cant be called politics any more. now the world is run by popularity contests @_@

I'm Planning on writing in Vetrinari/Vimes on my ballot this year.


That and hoping that someone gets the reference.

Lol....Vetinari should win. Drumknott can be his VP. Let's keep Vimes on the sidelines to clean up the messes ....as usual.

I can't see Vimes lasting in office for very long, it would drive him nuts...

The political system in this beloved country of ours sucks sweaty donkey balls. ... 2 choices, both of them bad, and that's it.

http://youtu.be/x2zJqKX7dw8

I'll stick with Unca Scrooge ...

I've said it before, and i'll say it again.

Sting had it right in his song, "If I ever lose my faith in you".

You could say I've lost my faith in our politicians.
They all look like game show hosts to me.

Boy Karno your Way more Cynical than I am about Governmaent Corruption but In Canada we have some Rules that Cannot be changed unless they Change our whole system and People Here would Screem Bloody Blue Murder if they did that..,..
But this Right to Carry that you have Up untill 1970's this was never an Issue in Canada you could Own what ever Fire Arm you wanted and we Had no Crime.... this was Because the Criminals had No Idea Who had a Sawed off Shot gun in there Umbrella stand.

Unchangable. We had that here in Germany. That is until our reunification.
You have to know, that we don't have a Constitution. We have a 'Basic Law' that does the same. Why the distinction? Because this 'Basic Law' was supposed to last until the reunification. Then we were supposed to get a Constitution voted for by the people. You know what they did? They said it wasn't a reunification, they said they 'reconnected' with us (There is no translation for the actual term they used. Very intedresting.). As such the 'Basic Law' is still in force minus the paragraphs about that 'reunification nonsense'.
That means we have been robbed of our best chance to correct the mistakes tha 'Basic Law' allows and everyone stayed in power as they were.
By the way, the the Judges stand behind that decision.

Technically the Federal Republic of Germany does not exist, as our basic laws have been circumvented.
I won't even go on about the mishandling of the reunification.

So, give them time. Thex'll find someone in the Canadian laws to change the unchangeable sooner or later. Although, from what little I know about Canada, it probably will be later, much later.

True My Opa Lived in Germany most of his life until he Passed in 1998 He was a Solider based in France During WWII.
He had nothing good to say about Reunification. He was in the Hitler Youth so he had nothing good to say about my Mom.... We all kept in touch It was easier for him After... but he said Same Idiots Different day.....

And yes they tried to push through legislation by using the Budget last Month but it was found out and brought to Everyone's Attention a Favourite Trick of the US Government. Some of the Environmental Legislation was Gutted and now the Premier of BC is Demanding a Lions share of the Tar sands Profit because BC is taking the Risk.... it may be greed but if it helps the Cretins in Alberta Gov to back off so be it.

Good to hear that some country has some sense left.

Mind you I'm not saying the reunification was a bad thing, just badly handled. Well it was the Chancellor (who managed to stay in power for 16 years and our current one had been his protegee) that started spending more money than the state had (exploding national debt since then, about doubling it every 10 years or so).

something similar was Happening in grease and it caused an economic collapse... thank-you Uro what did they think would happen with on currency???? You only do that if all the economy's are the same and that is not so...
there are roomers of this in Canada US and Mexico that would turn Canada and Mexico into the slave labour of the US....

But with Respect to all my Amarican Furries all you need to Do is Standardise your Laws and Election Practices. Dose anyone have an Idea which State you sould Standardise this system to.... I was thinking Texas Or Any of the Right to Cary states it would prevent the Gross Misconduct that Happend during GW's Ragin of terror on Amaricans and did you Know that the UN is calling for there arrest and Trile for War crimes?

PPS Sorry all it seems my Spell checker stopped working but you know what I mean right?

You're right. I still say the best thing is to run away from it. The people will never wake up.

Lets hope they do but you could come To Canada and stay here
you can apply for Citizenship from the US and then come here you would have to Learn a new Language see the Lovely Lakes See the Majestic Moose maybe have good Health-care of Harper doesn't rune it further......
or learn how to play our three National sports Hockey basketball and Le-cross.

I thought Canada's doors were closed these days. Anyway, you can effectively expatriate without leaving the country. I would love to live with moose though.

How do you think you're surviving Karno? Your comissions and art aren't Capitalism??

Where have I claimed they weren't?

"Our two-party system is a bowl of shit looking into a mirror at itself." - Lewis Black

100% accurate

People like you are the reason why the pince-nez went out of fashion. Are you happy now? ^^

This is intresting. Apparently the UK govt, in order to save money, is cutting the benefit cover to the poorest people for the so called council, or poll tax. So, the rich are imposing another 5-10% tax increase on the below poverty line poor, while voting themselves a 10% cut in tax? I wonder where they got funding for that.

And then people wnder why Empires have collapsed through history, repeatedly, to the screams of those in power origionally being treated to teh same process they treated those poor who previously conflicted with them induvidually.

Like a landslide, you can kick out single grains as much as you like, but each leads to the bulk becoming more and more loaded, until one last grain brings the whole lot crashing down unstoppably.

Was ist consumentenbond? Consumer protection?

Truth