DemoTex (22,544 posts)
Wm. McPhail nails it in his New Yorker cartoon ..
And as a smug, retired airline captain, I LOVE IT!!!
103 DU Wrecks as of this writing.
Is that how you infants view your family? Your conscience? Your menu choices at McDonald's?
(although, I'm sure a pretentious asshole who reads New Yorker magazine wouldn't deign to be seen at a McDonald's.)
Okay. You want subject matter experts governing every aspect of your lives. Fine.
Conservatives are the undisputed masters of winning elections, waging war, and running businesses.
Ergo, we should rule every aspect of your lives and we're going to start by dismantling the idiocy you have inflicted on CA, Detroit, Chicago and New York...you know, that place where they published that insipid cartoon.
However, in typical Proglodyte fashion, as soon as someone points out the obvious the Proglodytes bitch and whine that is not what they truly meant but are then powerless to express what they truly meant...
oberliner (42,007 posts)
1. It seems like this cartoon is mocking the idea of democracy
The suggestion being that ordinary people are too stupid to choose who will lead them?
blue cat (1,799 posts)
3. It seems like your statement
Is just plain stupid.
oberliner (42,007 posts)
8. What is the message of the cartoon?
It seems to be saying that most people are morons.
KittyWampus (53,082 posts)
17. Complex jobs require people with advanced skill sets.
But then, you know that.
oberliner (42,007 posts)
21. Of course
But the cartoon specifically shows a group of people voting, so, one would think, the cartoonist is saying something about democracy.
blue cat (1,799 posts)
26. Of course you would
Even though it's obviously not what it's about. I'm sorry that you don't get it.
oberliner (42,007 posts)
27. Maybe there is more to the cartoon than you think
It could be making a broader statement than you realize. It's worth thinking about, at least.
Schema Thing (10,242 posts)
32. GOOD ****ING LORD MAN, IT IS ABOUT THE ELECTION OF DONALD TRUMP.
In other words, Oberliner is exactly correct because you infants have been working to overthrow that election.
You loathe democracy whenever it fails to reaffirm your authoritarian impulses.
So go **** yourselves.
Skittles (110,506 posts)
4. you are REALLY starting to give yourself away now
truth hurts, does it?
Skittles (110,506 posts)
9. that's not what it says at ALL
it's SAYING to DON'T EXPECT A COMPLETELY UNQUALIFIED PERSON TO DO A JOB THAT AFFECTS LIVES - and YES, THINKING DONALD ****ING TRUMP is qualified to be PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES is indeed STUPID / FOOLISH
So the presidency is a job that effects people's lives and the idea of leaving it to a popular vote seems stupid to you.
Got it.
The problem here, Proglodyte, is that you imagine yourselves to be the pilots; but one look at the liberal cesspools of Detroit, LA, NY, Chicago, Venezuela, Cuba, et al reveals that you are really the passenger standing in the aisle.
oberliner (42,007 posts)
13. The voting aspect of the cartoon seems to imply that making important choices democratically
Can be foolish.
I guess I see how it is more of an attack on those who went after the supposed "smugness" of Democrats and/or liberals and then chose a totally unqualified person to take charge instead.
Hard for me to tell exactly who are what the cartoon is spoofing, but I might just be a little out of it right now.
Skittles (110,506 posts)
14. Donald Trump is NOT A SOLUTION
he is PATHETIC
#YourPresident
oberliner (42,007 posts)
16. Well, that goes without saying
I just wasn't sure if the cartoon was making a broader point about democracy in general or was just directed at Trump in particular.
Skittles (110,506 posts)
18. good lawd
and by the way, the Electoral College OVERRIDES democracy
and Trump was installed with the help of VOTER SUPPRESSION, RUSSIA and the FBI
NO DEMOCRACY THERE
So you don't like experts ruling either, when it doesn't go your way.
Just admit that your authoritarians and have done with it.
Skittles (110,506 posts)
28. it's about Trump's IDIOTIC SUPPORTERS
*OVER AND OUT*
So only Trump supporters shouldn't be allowed to vote.
KittyWampus (53,082 posts)
19. That poster gave themselves away a longggg time ago.
baldguy (36,481 posts)
11. Which is why the Founders set up the USA as a republic, not a democracy.
Do you think that the pilot of an airliner should be selected from among the untrained passengers? Really?
Where did the founders ever express the idea that the political leaders would come from anyone except the masses?
JustinL (690 posts)
57. They didn't do a very good job, considering that their system gave us ****face as President.
The more democratic method of going by the popular vote would have given us a qualified President.
**** Las Angeles and San Francisco.
humbled_opinion (4,129 posts)
10. So politically this analogy
is saying that only experienced politicians should run the country ?
Skittles (110,506 posts)
12. it is saying
COMPLETELY UNQUALIFIED PEOPLE SHOULD NOT RUN THE COUNTRY
by ANY measure, Donald ****ing Trump is COMPLETELY UNQUALIFIED
Who decides what makes a candidate qualified?
Oh! Right! A vote of the people.
meadowlander (20 posts)
50. Well, people with some form of relevant experience.
Why is that a difficult concept to grasp?
Yes, we live in a democracy. That doesn't mean any boob off the street is prepared to command a nuclear arsenal, direct public policy that affects millions of lives, and manage a budget of $3.8 trillion and a government that employs 2.8 million people.
As someone with a PhD and fifteen years busting my ass in the civil service, I'm sick of people like Sarah Palin saying things like being a mom qualifies her to be president and not being called out on it. I'm not qualified to be president and neither is anyone else who hasn't spent at least twenty or thirty years of their life dedicated to the sole purpose of accumulating relevant experience.
When did we decide to settle for so little in our leaders?
The GOP's game plan has been painfully obvious for years. They keep throwing monkey wrenches into the government and then complaining that it doesn't work and that therefore we need "outsiders" to come in and "drain the swamp". And then when they are in power, they just loot and pillage until enough people catch on to put them out of power again.
What I don't get is how so many people can fall for it, over and over and over again. It's only been 8 years since the Global Financial Crisis and the American public has handed the whole shebang, lock, stock and barrel, back over to the same asshats responsible for it.
A Ph.D. who can only manage to make civil servant wages.
Apparently you don't make the best decisions, do ya, buttercup?
Remind us why we should seek your advice about anything.
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