I’ve been going back through the archives, and it really strikes me how Bloom County serves as a political Rorschach test: Liberals see the comic as anti-conservative, and conservatives (like in the other two comments on this day’s strip) see it as anti-liberal, when in reality, Breathed just mocks idiots of all groups.
I was going to ask (rhetorically) why all the comics seemingly have it out for Dilbert, but I now see that the question wouldn’t really make any sense here.
Holy crap, you weren’t very far off.