Uncle Sam, you’ve gotta change with the instances.
The thin, venerable previous gentleman within the purple, white and blue swimsuit and starry hat who has symbolized america in all the things from recruiting posters to political cartoons because the early nineteenth century is not in sync with the new American foreign policy being implemented by the Trump administration.
Now that the nation is refusing to spend even a tiny fraction of the federal price range on beneficiant and strategic support to poor and ailing individuals abroad; now that the USA is dropping out of worldwide efforts to curb local weather change and battle lethal illnesses; and now that defending democracy is not a precedence and our nation is, as an alternative, taking the side of authoritarians, oligarchs and kleptocrats around the globe, Uncle Sam wants an up to date look.
The brand new Sam ought to be an unreliable, pea-brained however muscular bully who makes unilateral calls for as an alternative of creating buddies; a man at dwelling within the insular, uber-libertarian, cage-fight fan bro tradition the place the garish wealth and bullying, and boorish conduct, of President Donald Trump is admired and celebrated.
America’s picture on the planet is quickly morphing, so our conventional symbols have to be reworked, as nicely. Thus, my new caricature of Uncle Sam.
And what of the Statue of Liberty? Aw, she’s French, so she ought to simply return to the place she got here from.
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