Click on the image below to see Keith Knight’s latest K Chronicles in readable form.
This suggests a different view of US politics than did one of his recent (th)ink comics:
The whole premise of the first comic that the Republicans and Democrats in official Washington might be expected to “solve America’s problems.” I see no evidence that either party is interested in doing anything that could meet this description. On a whole range of issues, the two parties are much closer to each other than either is to the mainstream of US public opinion. In regard to trade policy, tax policy, health care, foreign policy, labor law, immigration, etc, the two parties represent a coordinated program to subsidize capital ownership and penalize wage labor.
The premise of the second comic is that the Republicans’ main goal is to attack the Democrats and that there is no point in the Democrats’ attempts to work with them. If this is true, and if it is also true that the Democrats represent something good, then a Democratic leader who said that his or her party’s chief goal was to rid Washington of Republicans would not be neglecting “America’s problems,” but tackling one of America’s biggest problems. I don’t doubt that Knight sincerely believes that that Republicans are hopelessly bad, and that the Democrats are far better. I am surprised that he doesn’t accept that Senator McConnell and his supporters are equally sincere in the contrary belief.
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