Clay Bennett for January 17, 2023

Yeeee-up.

That’s how each party celebrates MLK Day.

Yea they simply hate equality the prefer Qquality

Green.

Republicans don’t want equality. They want power, money, power, money…..repeat…..repeat…..repeat…..!!!!!!

Unlikely any Republican(s) will comment.

They won’t really understand it.

That’s so true. The red crayon needs to break and melt in a dark corner.

George Wallace

The Republican Royalists are tending to construct a new American Monarchy, with its own comparable system of King, Princes, Dukes, Counts, etc. Their campaign slogan might as well be, “Let’s Give Ourselves Back to Old England!”

Remember, the Heffalumps believe that “Everyone is Equal. It’s just that SOME* are more equal then others!”

*Old, Conservative, White, Rich, Christian, Straight MEN.

Equality would mean that “those people” are just as important and have the same rights and privilege’s as the white supremacist christian reich magats. Can’t be havin’ that!!

Who would have thought that 2 crayons could foster such an intense reaction?

Taking a look at the current rosters of both parties currently in Washington, I’m forced to say with some regret that neither selected the brightest crayons in the box.

GOP is too wrapped up with irrelevant investigations and collecting their bribe money from big business amd NRA‼️‼️☹️ just put that at the bottom of Jordan’s hit list‼️‼️☹️☹️

No no no Clay, it’s “Equity”.

I like how Clay Bennett uses certain objects to make a point. And a colorful one at that.

Equality, I spoke the word, as if a wedding vow…

Why would republicans react to a lie?

Got it, but you got it backwards. Just ask Elon Musk.

Did you see where in Missouri the Republicans in the State House have passed rules demanding women delegates cover their shoulders? That’s right, they passed “Dress Codes for Women.” Does it Sound like the Taliban, anyone?

I prefer equity over equality.

Donald Trump Supporters Turn on Him Over Vaccine Defense—’Sold Out So Hard’

Republicans intend to go on killing themselves with covid.

Court proceedings reveal MBS paid Trump “millions in the past two years”: Human rights group

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/court-proceedings-reveal-mbs-paid-trump-millions-in-the-past-two-years-human-rights-group/ar-AA16rEaV?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=02306da7b8124351a589364e8514c5d1

I was watching the 1951 Science Fiction classic When Worlds Collide the other day. Toward the end of the movie, they show a scene of the ship’s passengers who have escaped to try to make it to a new world. My son was walking through the room at the time, glanced at the screen, and commented, “Oh, I guess they didn’t want to save any black or Asian people, did they?”

He is 18, in college, and believes in the best of people. I was proud that he realized how incredibly intolerant attitudes were in 1951.

The problem is that, in 2023, many people still cling to those racial attitudes, and many of them are in today’s Republican party.

Thanks to all who posted links.

Hmm… I looked it up in Character Map. ≠

It’s not so much that they don’t want people to be equal. It’s that they’re truly convinced some groups of people are superior to others. So, what you see as equal treatment they see as undeserved, preferential treatment.

^always in left field

This kind of color commentary I like!

Assigning conservatives to fascists is in error for several reasons. German newspapers in the 1930s called communists left wing, as they did the NSDAP. Communists were extreme left. The NSDAP as left, just not as extreme as the communists. Friedrich Hayek, in the Road to Serfdom, argued that Western democracies, including the United Kingdom and the United States, have “progressively abandoned that freedom in economic affairs without which personal and political freedom has never existed in the past”. Society has mistakenly tried to ensure continuing prosperity by centralized planning, which inevitably leads to totalitarianism. “We have in effect undertaken to dispense with the forces which produced unforeseen results and to replace the impersonal and anonymous mechanism of the market by collective and ‘conscious’ direction of all social forces to deliberately chosen goals.” Socialism, while presented as a means of assuring equality, does so through “restraint and servitude”, while “democracy seeks equality in liberty”. Planning, because it is coercive, is an inferior method of regulation, while the competition of a free market is superior “because it is the only method by which our activities can be adjusted to each other without coercive or arbitrary intervention of authority.” Consider conservatism vs. fascism. Conservatism respects the past. When it has yielded freedom and prosperity.