Interesting Cartoon From 1948 - PeachParts Mercedes-Benz Forum

Skippy · #1 10-24-2009, 09:41 PM

http://nationaljuggernaut.blogspot.com/2009/09/this-cartoon-seemed-far-fetched-in-1948.html

Not so subtly anti-communist. Discuss.

compress ignite · #2 10-24-2009, 11:00 PM

As Doth said Video Production...

Skippy,

If you think that's a "Cartoon" (Or was ever intended as one),I have a Bridge
in Arizona... .

"Careful Matey" ,"Not to be accused of inciting Mutiny"

One group of Valiant Americans,You do not EVER want interested in your
activities is the US Secret Service.

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Mike D · #3 10-24-2009, 11:10 PM

Ahhh yes, Harding University, Ken Starr's alma mater. He didn't get his degree there but he attended it for a couple of years.

The political 'toon was simplistic and a little heavy-handed on the "ism" control issue but it does indeed make a few points. But, then again, doesn't all propaganda contains just enough truth to make it seem legit?

cmac2012 · #4 10-25-2009, 08:33 AM

That sort of thing has influenced many an American. Plenty of films with that same sort of tone in years past. The very sound of it makes my back teeth stand on edge.

okyoureabeast · #5 10-25-2009, 11:46 AM

Ah it's funny how the boogy man of the early 20th century (communism) has changed to a new one (terrorism).

The irony is that the American dream pits us against each other which is the best example of class separation that I can see.

Gotta love our Isms

aklim · #6 10-25-2009, 12:16 PM

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Originally Posted by okyoureabeast

The irony is that the American dream pits us against each other which is the best example of class separation that I can see.

How is that bad? Competition is what makes the group stronger. If all of us earned $1000 whatever we did, why would we bother to excel? If you were paid and treated exactly the same as the other guy whether either or neither of you did anything but show up, why would you work your butt off to be better? Why would I stay up late and try think of new strategies to be better than you if the end result was the same? If you are a class 1 worker and get better treatment than a class 2 and I am in class 2, I might have some incentive to try to be class 1. OTOH, if you remove the sting of being idle by making us all classless, why should I try to be more productive than you?

The only example I know of that won't support it is my biological Dad. He s 72 and he works because he likes it. He has even said that if his business collapses tomorrow, he has enough in reserves to go learn golf. He has said he would do his work even though he made no money and could break even. I believe him. How many others are insane like him? If I got paid the same as you whether I am more productive or not, you bet I'll be sitting down eating Bon-Bons (not sure what they are. Never had one) when I am not being observed.

MTUpower · #7 10-25-2009, 01:57 PM

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Originally Posted by okyoureabeast

Ah it's funny how the boogy man of the early 20th century (communism) has changed to a new one (terrorism).

The irony is that the American dream pits us against each other which is the best example of class separation that I can see.

Gotta love our Isms

Yes- we would be better off with out class separations- we could all be one class- I wonder if we would end up being first class or bottom rung?

Hatterasguy · #8 10-25-2009, 11:51 AM

Communism is dead, we beat it.

Fulcrum525 · #9 10-25-2009, 12:04 PM

The Germans invented the car....

aklim · #10 10-25-2009, 12:17 PM

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Originally Posted by Hatterasguy

Communism is dead, we beat it.

No, it beat us. We are adopting more and more of it.

WVOtoGO · #11 10-25-2009, 12:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Hatterasguy

Communism is dead, we beat it.

We beat it ???

Damn. I must have missed that.

Maybe I was asleep in the cockpit.

cmac2012 · #12 10-25-2009, 08:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Hatterasguy

Communism is dead, we beat it.

Defeated itself is more like it.

Don't look now but communist China is bailing us out of financial disaster, over and over and over . . .

How did that happen?

Brandon_SLC · #13 10-25-2009, 05:55 PM

Dr. ISM and Obama sell the same elixir.

Uncanny. It's almost like they saw the future.

Communism lives, we elected it!

The cartoon would look even more like today's ISM if it included the assertion that profits are bad. Also, the snake oil salesman should launch into ad hominem attacks towards anyone who disagrees with his positions.

G-Benz · #14 10-26-2009, 12:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Brandon_SLC

Dr. ISM and Obama sell the same elixir.

Uncanny. It's almost like they saw the future.

Communism lives, we elected it!

The cartoon would look even more like today's ISM if it included the assertion that profits are bad. Also, the snake oil salesman should launch into ad hominem attacks towards anyone who disagrees with his positions.

..."Joe Doakes" builds cars outside of the US now...so fewer support industries created in the system...and stagnant wages...

...the relatives that would have invested in "Joe" bought paper instead...they are "speculators", not "capitalists". When the value of whatever the paper represented tanked, so did the paper...and their investments...

...we aren't the same enterprising sort of folks that we were in 1948.

Took years to get that way...this doesn't belong to Obama.

aklim · #15 10-26-2009, 01:08 PM

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Originally Posted by G-Benz

...we aren't the same enterprising sort of folks that we were in 1948.

Took years to get that way...this doesn't belong to Obama.

The blame belongs to us. We stopped being enterprising because we don't have to be anymore. We stopped working hard because we don't have to anymore. We have, in our own egalitarian way, removed the sting of failure. So, if you are lazy and willing to settle for some minimum, why work hard?