Your Saturday Cartoon
by Noah
Humankind has always had a fatal flaw:
We can be ridiculously naive about our species. Too often that is expressed by phrases like, "No one would ever be that evil" or, "All people are by nature essentially good." It's a secret "whistling past the graveyard" thing that most of us live in denial about. Chamberlain sure had it when he came back from his meeting with Hitler and proclaimed that peace was at hand. Apparently, the founding fathers also had it when they didn't allow for the possibility of a Trump coming along, or a highly politicized Supreme Court for that matter.
Their biggest oversight was not forseeing just how stupid people could become.
The evil has always existed. But even here today, those who do not vote for pure evil outnumber the evil by 2 to 1. Yet they are not smart or engaged enough to coalesce an actual GOOD to defeat evil.
A lot of the good they did in defining our government, such as separation, the free press, the bill of rights... have been either repudiated or ignored because of that stupidity. In fact, stupidity is poised to undo everything.
And the worst part of this stupidity... they're too fucking stupid to understand that their own stupidity is the problem.