It is interesting how much the values of the person drawing cartoons like this impacts my response to it.
If I saw something like this drawn by someone on the left, I would see the message:“I care about women’s rights, and I’m horrified by authoritarian states that impose rules upon women”
When I see something like this drawn by someone on the right, I see the message:“I hate foreign cultures, and will take any opportunity to depict them as monsters”
A remarkable number of comments here that try to draw a comparison being Iran and the U.S. Either it’s truly ignorance on their part or they don’t really care what’s happening and it’s just another sickening comparison of true evil to our Constitutional Republic.
Get to know Iran, including the executions for drug offenses, prison for political differences, beatings for religious differences, and executions for being gay. As far as women in Iran, they’re treated as second class citizens, murdered for not wearing a hijab correctly, restricted on where they can be seen in public, beatings for political differences, restrictions on what medical procedures they can have, and restricted movement inside and outside of the country. The World Economic Forum has ranked them near the bottom in the entire world for women’s rights.
Yes, the heritage foundation defines the USA as a constitutional “republic” but in reality we are a Constitutional Democracy, as the founding fathers (except for Madison) intended. We all know what the heritage foundation has done to wreck our democracy with their pre-selection of ultra nationalist extremist judges during republican dominated legislature and executive branch periods. A constitutional republic is defined as government imposing rule of law upon its constituents where democracy is rule of the people. Take your pick, vote wisely in November.
This is an important comic about what life is like in Iran and other Muslim states. There is no comparison to Iran and the US. In other countries you can be killed for speaking out against the government, killed for being gay, killed for not being Muslim.
For me, the concern that this is what is occurring in the US is more of a warning. The Dobbs decision (plus other political actions) and the following seemingly gleeful rush in state legislatures to encode limitations on woman’s right (and suffrage), should give people pause. So, no RIGHT NOW, the US does not equal Iran ( or Nazi Germany, Venezuela, Cuba, Russia, third world country, etc.), but my concern is the path that seems to have been started might lead to that totalitarian outcome.
To think that that sentiment does not exist among some Americans who claim to be able to “solve” our problems (and want to have the problems “solved”) in the name of safety, fear of “socialism”, voter “fraud”, worry over the border, etc. is to misunderstand human nature.
M2MM over 1 year ago
A little too close to the truth. :(
baroden Premium Member over 1 year ago
Sounds like where the US is going with “Christian” nationalism
Patjade over 1 year ago
Sounds a lot like the way the US is going under the Talibangelicals.
GOGOPOWERANGERS over 1 year ago
Al he your kind of guy !!!!!!!!
Zebrastripes over 1 year ago
Control! This is all about control..cowardness, and insecurity.
These animals need to be hung, quartered and sent to 4 corners of the world!
Their god, Mohammed was just like them….a tortuous, raper, and killer.
suzalee over 1 year ago
Dictators always go after women.
Vidrinath Premium Member over 1 year ago
Al, why did you draw yourself in a hat labeled “Iran” and since when do you support women that much?
mourdac Premium Member over 1 year ago
A Goodwyn I can agree with. Is it a sign of the end times?
fusilier over 1 year ago
The Republican supermajority in the Indiana state legislature is taking notes.
fusilier
James 2:24
braindead Premium Member over 1 year ago
American so-called ‘Christians’ are totally oblivious to how alike they are to the religious conservatives that Goodwyn criticizes here.
When it is pointed out to them, they will vehemently deny it, sometimes violently.
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Iranic.
Aliquid over 1 year ago
It is interesting how much the values of the person drawing cartoons like this impacts my response to it.
If I saw something like this drawn by someone on the left, I would see the message:“I care about women’s rights, and I’m horrified by authoritarian states that impose rules upon women”
When I see something like this drawn by someone on the right, I see the message:“I hate foreign cultures, and will take any opportunity to depict them as monsters”
Al Goodwyn creator over 1 year ago
A remarkable number of comments here that try to draw a comparison being Iran and the U.S. Either it’s truly ignorance on their part or they don’t really care what’s happening and it’s just another sickening comparison of true evil to our Constitutional Republic.
Get to know Iran, including the executions for drug offenses, prison for political differences, beatings for religious differences, and executions for being gay. As far as women in Iran, they’re treated as second class citizens, murdered for not wearing a hijab correctly, restricted on where they can be seen in public, beatings for political differences, restrictions on what medical procedures they can have, and restricted movement inside and outside of the country. The World Economic Forum has ranked them near the bottom in the entire world for women’s rights.
Sure, just like in the U.S.
Free Radical over 1 year ago
Yes, the heritage foundation defines the USA as a constitutional “republic” but in reality we are a Constitutional Democracy, as the founding fathers (except for Madison) intended. We all know what the heritage foundation has done to wreck our democracy with their pre-selection of ultra nationalist extremist judges during republican dominated legislature and executive branch periods. A constitutional republic is defined as government imposing rule of law upon its constituents where democracy is rule of the people. Take your pick, vote wisely in November.
scottdre over 1 year ago
This is an important comic about what life is like in Iran and other Muslim states. There is no comparison to Iran and the US. In other countries you can be killed for speaking out against the government, killed for being gay, killed for not being Muslim.
Havel over 1 year ago
For me, the concern that this is what is occurring in the US is more of a warning. The Dobbs decision (plus other political actions) and the following seemingly gleeful rush in state legislatures to encode limitations on woman’s right (and suffrage), should give people pause. So, no RIGHT NOW, the US does not equal Iran ( or Nazi Germany, Venezuela, Cuba, Russia, third world country, etc.), but my concern is the path that seems to have been started might lead to that totalitarian outcome.
To think that that sentiment does not exist among some Americans who claim to be able to “solve” our problems (and want to have the problems “solved”) in the name of safety, fear of “socialism”, voter “fraud”, worry over the border, etc. is to misunderstand human nature.