Everything old is new again
Bookworm on Feb 14 2008 at 7:49 pm | Filed under: Democrats, Presidential elections
Whether we forget or remember the past, sometimes we seem doomed to repeat it. Certainly with all the candidates, the analogies to historic times flow freely. The two big analogies, of course, are World War II and the Vietnam War, depending on whether voters view Islamists or fellow Americans as the enemy.
There are other historic times, though, that are worthy of revisiting. Watch this Betty Boop video and tell me if it doesn’t seem eerily reminiscent of much of the Democratic platform, with Betty promising to cure all ills and flatten out wealth, two sentiments accompanied by meaningless (but, since this is Betty Boop, jazzy) platitudes.
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That cartoon looked like it was making fun of the idea of a woman being President.
You know, Y, with Betty Boop cartoons, it’s hard to tell. They are all completely surrealistic, which is why it makes it more than usually funny that the cartoon seems to echo so many things in today’s election. I’m a big Max Fleischer fan. He was one of the pioneers of cartooning, and quite brilliant. You should check out his cartoons, many of which have been posted to youtube.
It should be a campaign ad but it perhaps too subtle for your average Utopian Lefty.
You know this is funny in exactly the same way as my poem for The Pedestal Magazine’s The Political Anthology. http://www.thepedestalmagazine.com/Secure/content/cb.asp?cbid=4450
It makes use of hyperbole. Of course, the Democrats have a policy and a plan to address the issues just as the Republicans did in 2004. “O, the games people play now, every night and every day now.”
Everybody has a plan to advance their agenda. What everyone does not have is a plan to progress humanity towards our maximum potential.
The Democrats do have a plan to progress humanity towards our lowest potential, though. Give them credit for that, at least.