Criticize the President? We should not even be having serious conversations about this. [View all]

[woo me with science]

Seriously.

Calls to refrain from criticizing our public servants, our elected representatives, should be met with scathing rebuff and ridicule. Period. When we hear this crap, it's time to pull out some good old-fashioned, "cut-them-down-to-size" American political cartoons and blowback to remind everyone watching that the politicians are accountable to us, not the other way around.

They are POLITICIANS, not deities. Let's not forget how this representative system is supposed to work.

There is a creepy authoritarian wind blowing in this country right now, and with it some very creepy, disturbing bids in the propaganda to trade away our American democratic concept of holding our elected public servants accountable, for a blind loyalty to and adoration of a Dear Leader.

It's important to mock and destroy propaganda that attempts to rhapsodize and deify politicians. Sometimes it seems trivial, and people get upset that you are raining on the "good feelings" of a puffy post....but when you have the very same people repeatedly posting adulatory, even deifying nonsense like this (all actual posts, mostly OP's, from the past few months), then it's important to deflate the puffery:

"That Clinton-Obama Chemistry (They Glory in One Another's Radiance)"

"A Glimpse of what Destiny Looks Like" (with a picture of Obama addressing an adoring crowd)

"They stayed delighted....he loved them, as only Obama can do"

"President Obama has issued a proclamation..."

"Fighting means letting your leader lead and supporting his method."

It's worth noting that these sorts of posts unfailingly come from the very same wing of the party that backs the surveillance state and ridiculously expanded executive powers and brutal crackdowns on protesters. It's the same group that has attempted to twist the meaning of election season (historically the time when public servants are supposed to be MOST responsive to public feedback) to argue, ludicrously, that the public must keep silent with criticisms so as not to disturb the delicate plans of "our Leaders."

And they will always use the word "Leaders." Not "representatives." Not "public servants."

We are hearing a lot of deifying nonsense lately in the informal message board propaganda that really isn't worded much differently than garbage coming out of North Korea. The creepily serious bids for fawning unquestioning obeisance to our "Leaders" and the vicious attacks on anyone who does not comply deserve LOTS of mocking, not for meanness's sake, but for the health of our democracy.

I'll say it again. There's a creepy authoritarian wind blowing in the country these days, and it deserves some good old American pushback: scathing, irreverent political cartoons and commentary to remind us that our very human, very flawed, sometimes even shamefully corrupt politicians require our constant oversight to make sure they are doing their jobs.