Recently in my travels around the city I came across a political poster, seen here. Among the campaign promises present on the poster (Wow...the alliteration there!) there is a checkmark next to a gigantimongous, bright red SOCIALISM. Americans have a history of not responding well to the idea of shared wealth and, more importantly, iconic symbols emblazoned in red, which makes me wonder why the makers of this poster (you can read more about them here) believed it would be effective.
Despite our current systems of economy and government being less than perfect, it still seems we've got it 'going on' in the traditional sense a little more than our socialist/communist comrades. In fact, SPOLIER ALERT: We won the Cold War, and thereby the fight of capitalism vs. communism, mostly because communism runs a country into the ground. My admission of this will no doubt catch some of you by surprise, but it's time to give credit where credit is due.
But I digress, there's more at work here than just socialism, there is another, I dare say more ridiculous claim made here. The poster promises to do away with, 'racist police brutality'. Ignoring the obvious support for normal police brutaility, I struggle to figure out how they intend to fight the racist kind.
They could start by adding a section to the NYPD exam,
ARE YOU A RACIST?
CHECK
YES NO MAYBE
I JUST DON'T LIKE IT WHEN I'M THE ONLY GUY ON THE SUBWAY WHO CAN SPEAK ENGLISH
..but that effort could be beaten by a cop who simply chooses the correct box to check. No, what we need is something better, we need a cop that doesn't see race, that doesn't see hate, it only sees....justice.
The only fear now is that we'll have to protect our windows from senseless punctuations at the end of cheesy lines of dialogue.
God help us.
1 comment:
Aww honey! I knew that you would become a capitalist eventually! Can you switch from NBC to ABC and work for John Stossel?!
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