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What seems to be wrong in the U.S. - some caricatures

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  • What seems to be wrong in the U.S. - some caricatures
    • We are the 99%
    • Republicans
    • Tea Party
    • Education
    • National debt

I am not the first person you should ask if you want to know something about the United States. I've never been there and I know only one American. But I am reading quite a lot of websites which publish regularly political caricatures. This post is simply a collection of different caricatures I've stumbled over. For most of them I had to search the source, so I hope you will enjoy them.

If you are the owner of one of these websites and don't want me to publish your caricatures, I'll remove them. But I will also remove the link to your website.

We are the 99%

We are the 99% is a political slogan of "Occupy" protesters. It refers to the vast concentration of wealth among the top 1% of income earners compared to the other 99%, and indicates that most people are paying the price for the mistakes of a tiny minority.

We are the 99% - Caricature from mattbors.com
We are the 99% - Caricature from mattbors.com

(mattbors.com has some more caricatures from the occupy protesters)

Wall Street - Demonstrators vs. Bankers
Wall Street - Demonstrators vs. Bankers (from Startribune.com)
Dessert - the american style (from David Horsey)
Dessert - the american style (from David Horsey)

Some of the best caricatures are made by David Horsey.

Republicans

The Republican Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Democratic Party. Founded by anti-slavery expansion activists in 1854, it is often called the GOP (Grand Old Party). The party's platform generally reflects American conservatism in the U.S. political spectrum and is considered center-right, in contrast to the center-left Democratic Party.

The Principled Pachyderm (from M. Wuerker)
The Principled Pachyderm (from M. Wuerker)

Tea Party

The Tea Party movement is an American populist political movement that is generally recognized as conservative and libertarian, and has sponsored protests and supported political candidates since 2009. It endorses reduced government spending, opposition to taxation in varying degrees, reduction of the national debt and federal budget deficit, and adherence to an originalist interpretation of the United States Constitution.

Tea Party and big gouvernment
Tea Party and big gouvernment

Phil Hands has also made a nice one, but I've only found a page which clearly states "pay per use". What a pity!

I've just found the category tea party of theweek.com.

Education

Education in China, Africa and the U.S. (from inconsequentiallogic.com)
Education in China, Africa and the U.S. (from inconsequentiallogic.com)
University student dept (By Jeff Parker © 2006 Florida Today)
University student dept (By Jeff Parker © 2006 Florida Today)

National debt

National dept (from flatoday.net)
National dept (from flatoday.net)

I was very astonished that I did not find much about torture (e.g. waterboarding), human and civil rights (e.g. Guantanamo Bay, death penalty) and the widespread ownership of arms (see 2nd Amendment, List of countries by intentional homicide rate).

Do you know some good sites with caricatures? What do you think are the problems of Europe / Germany?


Published

Dez 28, 2011
by Martin Thoma

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