Bob Gorrell for February 07, 2019

More grounded in reality than the tax-cuts-pay-for-themselves-trickle-down theory evangelized by Republiclans.

Stupid liberal lemmings that want roads, schools, hospitals, fire and police forces! Education and healthcare is for SUCKERS!

MAGA-DERP!!!

This cartoon is as factual as the “lemming mass suicide” theory.

Yeah Gorrell, the first thing we need to get rid of is the eight hour work day and 40 hour work week.

Of course Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and all pensions must also go, along with all vacations, sick leave, health coverage, and any other employee benefits.

Police and Fire must be privatized, along with National Parks, air traffic control, TSA, education at all levels, National Weather Bureau, and every damn dam.

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We’ll be sure to keep all the taxpayer funded NFL stadiums, along with those of MLB and the NBA.

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What a maroon.

Analysis skills.

This is right out of the regressives’ playbook. Demonize names or concepts they fear. It is misleading and insulting. Many or most countries practice some form of socialism, in that people pool their resources to accomplish what they cannot accomplish as individuals, or what they don’t trust profit-making organizations to do.

Here is a simple guide for those seeking to enlighten themselves:

National socialism (Germany, 1930’s to 1945): Bad

Democratic socialism (Scandinavia, others): Good

Communism (the Soviet Union, North Korea, others): Bad

Authoritarian government (Venezuela, Russia): Bad

Just another ‘sky is falling’ word to scare Trump’s base.

Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland , … Just for thought. You do think, Mr. Gorrell, don’t you. They do have a form of socialism that works along with a form of capitalism. And quite successfully at that…… Britain, Canada,……..

Well, we have two contradictory facts here. One that, as DJT says we have a booming economy; and two, we already have socialism. How do you reconcile that Mr. Gorrell?

You’ve already done a cartoon about a donkey logo moving left of center https://www.gocomics.com/bobgorrell/2018/07/05

The cliff looks similar to one from a previous cartoon https://www.gocomics.com/bobgorrell/2018/09/04 (notice the pebbles falling off the edge)

the legs of the donkey logo look like they are just rotated out from the center.

As opposed to the Republican capitalist pigs stealing everything they can and destroying what they can’t steal.

Trump said, we will never be socialist in a taxpayer funded building to a taxpayer funded congress and to our socialist military.

Trump gave 12 billion in socialism to farmers that he stabbed in the back earlier.

Simplistic labels don’t provide a basis for a useful discussion.

awesome comic! perfectly shows the Dems willing to back a system that has NEVER IN HISTORY worked! show me just one country that tried it successfully!

Whenever republicans accuse democrats (or anyone) of being lemmings or goose stepping, the irony is so thick you couldn’t cut through it with a chainsaw.

Gorrell, this is an enormously lazy, ridiculous cartoon. NO ONE IS PUSHING FOR 100% SOCIALISM.

For the record, the partially socialist approach used in Scandinavia is one of the most effective governing approaches in the world, as regards the safety, welfare, and happiness of their citizens.

And the army counts as a socialist organization, too! The founders were not in favor of a standing army!

I think people who have such a reaction to the word “socialism” have few skills in critical thinking. I believe the source of this failure stems from the McCarthy era where we were consumed by fears of Communism. Socialism is not a political system. We fear it because many people in the 50’s and 60’s equated socialism and Communism. In fact Communism should be feared. The underlying principle is state ownership of the national wealth. Concentration of national wealth in the hands of a oligarchy is guaranteed to reduce the total income from that wealth. (See Picketty “Capitalism in the 21st Century”). Consequently, the entire populace suffers.Social services, however, are provided by EVERY STATE and every form of government. The only debate is where to draw the line.Do you want public schools?Do you want good highways and bridges?How about airports?Public transportation benefits people who drive their cars every day because of lowered congestion and easier parking. Public transportation is usually not self-supporting? Good idea or not?Most sport stadiums are built with tax supported bonds? Do you like your football team, NBA?Don’t use a single term to describe socialism as distinct from capitalism. You simply show ignorance and an unwillingness to think clearly.

Which is why the countries of Scandinavia, which have the same democratic socialist policies that many Democrats do, are failing, with sky-high unemployment rates of 5% and constant places in the top ten for happiness. Same goes for many other developed countries, such as Canada and New Zealand, which also have such policies.https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/16/these-are-the-top-10-happiest-countries-in-the-world.html

They believe they are leaping towards Scandinavia, but will most assuredly land in Venezuela.

Bob, Please go to your local community college and take a basic Political Science course so that you can understand the difference between Democratic Socialism, Socialism and Totalitarian Nationalism. They aren’t the same.

Diving into the survivors gene pool.

Better than the cliff of Authoritarianism the Republicans have been flinging themselves off of. I’d rather live in a society than under GOP Authority.

I’d love to see the political cartoon for what the rich are using to “trickle down” on the masses.

Sigh… the boogeyman “socialism”… the majority of you don’t even know what that word even means. America is already part socialist. Always has been.

No country has ever pulled off 100% socialism. Nor has any country pulled of 100% capitalism. All modern developed countries are a mix of the two.

United States is heavier on the Capitalism, and countries like Canada and Norway lean further on the socialist side of things.

Moving towards socialism isn’t “running off a cliff like lemmings”… it is a perfectly feasible option. Maybe an option that you don’t like, but don’t go saying “it won’t work”. Be honest and just say “not my preference”

Gorrell … Take @mikemck’s advice, because you, like our Ignoramus-in-Chief, don’t have a clue as to what ‘Socialism’ really is!

Yes Yes….. The Dems want to turn us into Venezuela AGAIN FDR Saved America by organizing for the “General Welfare” If people had continued to Starve to death during the Great depression our future would have looked more like Revolutionary France. No we are faced with the question of who will benefit from the technical revolution that we are witnessing? Just like we were faced with when the first round of automation changed peoples lives in the 1920’sSweden is a Socialist nation. Denmark is a Socialist nation. Why do you insist that Dems want to emulate a Socialist Dictatorship like Venezuela that has only been a socialist state for 16 years instead of a Socialist DEMOCRACY that has resulted in the highest standard of living in the world? Gorrell’s Chief Weapon is Fear. Fear and Surprise

Why then do the Republicans continue to pump unlimited amounts of money into our largest socialist institution – the US military?

Yes, it makes so much more sense to keep handing all of our public money to people who have no need of more money, and letting our roads and bridges crumble to pay for it.

Republicans: We cut programs that people use AND run giant deficits. Lose/lose.

By the way, lots of people are noticing that their taxes have gone UP. By a lot.

Listen to Richard Wolff on YouTube: “Let’s Talk About Socialism”. Very informative !

Sigh. Bob really doesn’t understand, does he?

Dog-whistle politics.

VENEZUELA !