Back to B.C. by Johnny Hart for April 27, 2022

A vine thing, that

I usually flip a coin while I’m voting. Not to choose anything, just to make onlookers wince.

“…catch a jack@ss by the toe. Eenie-meenie-mynie-moe.”

Some years that’s a good a reason as any other.

I remember when they would close the bars on election day, I guess to keep people from making bad decisions. These days are a good excuse to leave them open all night.

Nowadays, the difference between candidates has never been more stark.

There will be municipal elections in Iceland on May 14. A lot of people here in Reykjavík, myself included, will be voting for the party most likely to get the current mayor out of office. I understand from the news that it was similar in the recent French presidential elections. People didn’t vote for Macron, but mainly against Le Pen.

Anymore, it seems all you can do is vote for the lesser of the two evils

The lesser of evils…..how pathetic the masses don’t have better, quality candidates to choose from…

Should have voted Non-Labour then.

Does anybody want a job that is completely thankless, absolutely disgusting due to the majority of people you have to associate with, and its requirements can meet no one’s expectations?

me neither. so the only people that run seem to be the idealists – who eventually are completely overwhelmed by the hardness of the task of changing bad to good, and many give in to the rot -— OR -—— the narcissist/power-hungry that the other side hates for their narcissism IF they don’t agree with how they vote/lead or their ruthlessness to obtain power and destroy the system (which is the excuse each side blames the other of doing to obtain their power) Are there people who could and would do a better job? absolutely. I have known and talked to many over the years. Will they ever come forward? I would say no simply because those who hate, manipulate, and lie, that control “behind the scenes” and yes there are many in that position in politics, have the capability to make life very miserable for anyone who does something they don’t like. OH NO!!! too early for this, not enough coffee -—- my brain is sprung for the rest of today.

The really disturbing thing about this comic is that it’s from 1964, and things haven’t improved at all in those 58 years.

I don’t know why they do that. Given the slate of candidates, who would want to make that choice sober?

I recall the same gag being used about a decade later by The Mary Tyler Moore Show. Murray tells Mary that he voted for a specific official (played, I believe, in wonderfully dim-witted fashion by Bill Daily) because he was a Mo.

Mary: A Mo?

Murray: You know — eenie, meenie, miney, mo. When I can’t make up my mind, I always vote the straight Mo ticket.

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