On most issues I try to avoid a partisan perspective, because both parties have played a hand in creating the war-ravaged, poorly regulated, poor-punishing state of our society. One party is sensible enough to view this as a problem, but is either too ineffectual or too indebted to its corporate donors to do what really needs doing. The other party is pretty callous, cold and without shame. But this current shutdown of the government can be blamed squarely on the shoulders of the Republicans in Congress, particularly the House, where a determined group of ideologues have cowed the establishment. We have seen this scenario many times before. Were people not suffering as a result of losing the government programs that serve them, this whole thing would be comical.

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Publisher’s Note: I certainly agree with the cartoonist that the Republicans are the ones who stupidly shut down the government recently. But I think the artist above is wrong to suggest that the Democrats have not done anything. They actually have solved problems – not only recently like ending the Iraq war, but historically.

Democrats put us on the road to the moon. They gave us Civil Rights and Medicare. The gave us clean air and water, despite Richard Nixon’s veto of these basic environmental protection laws. They took the internet from a basic military tool to a public tool. They have repeatedly increased the minimum wage.

And, of course, now we have the Affordable Care Act – which is on its way to fundamentally improving the health of this nation for generations to come.

To be blunt, Democrats are Life and Republicans are Death.

Next time you vote think of this: Do you want a better life or a quicker death?

‘Nuff said.

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Zygmunt Bauman, the sociologist who has pioneered the concepts of liquid society (and related consequences liquid modernity, etc.) is the subject of this portrait for the Cranky Sociologist gallery.

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