Studies find that at least 60% of Americans prefer their son or daughter to marry within their family’s political party.
Dead to Me
Ted Rall
Ted Rall is a syndicated political cartoonist for Andrews McMeel Syndication, WhoWhatWhy.org and Counterpoint. He is a frequent contributor to The Wall Street Journal, a graphic novelist and author of many books of art and prose, and an occasional war correspondent. He is, recently, the author of the graphic novel "The Stringer."
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And, according to the latest Emerson College Polling Society poll, more residents of the United States believe in the veracity of statements made by the Trump administration than those made by the (corporate) media (admittedly, that’s not setting the bar for veracity very high)….
Henri
The people who voted for Trump (and those people who would have voted for Sanders if he had been allowed to become the Democratic Party candidate) were already dead to the major corporate media, their polls, and the Democratic Party.
Millions were not recognized by the Power Elite as being more than bare life without political agency until the consequences of ignoring their existence impinged on their own existence.
Two parties dedicated to grasping power and none dedicated to resisting Power Elite overreach matched with marketing campaigns based on pure demagoguery; what could go wrong?
One of the things I appreciate about Ted is his ability to poke fun at his own….
Henri
What I want to is to pass my values onto my children, teach them critical thinking skills, and give them enough knowledge to apply those skills. At which point, their votes will be very close to mine as a matter of course. I would hope that they would choose partners with similar values – they will after all be raising my grandchildren.
The values that my wife and I share were passed on to two of our three offspring, and we continue to ask with regard to the other (middle) child, “Where did we go wrong?”
Grandchildren are not a given.
With the Bernie picture on the wall, one has to wonder what the statistics are for “member of their religious affiliation” — (?)
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The gocomics commentators who promised they’d never read another Rall cartoon are now saying, ‘How could you?’
They say Trump’s victory was all Mr Rall’s fault: He knew Trump could win (or so he says after Trump won the Electoral College), and he knew Trump was much worse than Secretary Clinton, but his cartoons all said, ‘Vote for Jill.’
The problem with the critics’ argument is that, if every voter who voted for Jill had voted for Clinton, she’d still have lost.
I still think Trump won’t be as bad as Clinton would have been. The press are back to work (https://comicskingdom.com/kirk-walters/2017-02-09) and the courts are trying to do all they can to stop him, which I don’t think they’d have done if Clinton had won (and if she’d won, she probably would have carried the Senate and gotten a neo-liberal majority in the Supreme Court).
Well, it’s funny what gets passed on. Neither of my kids is a revolutionary, like I am, but my son was a big Bernie fan, and my daughter (younger) is very progressive. On the other hand, while my son and I share musical taste, my daughter listens to heavy duty hip hop. At least a bunch of it is Jamaican. And she wears fake fingernails. Which kind of freaks me out. Whatever, I guess, as long as they are good people, I’m OK. If one of them ends up with a right winger though, all bets are off….