This is a "classic" from a few years ago, but in this era of plutocratic libertarian-authoritarianism, the message bears repeating. Since the Reagan era, the message that "government is bad" has been drilled into Americans' noggins. But as I wrote at the time I drew this cartoon, in a healthy democracy government exists as a check on abuses of power by moneyed interests. While government can be corrupt to varying degrees (with Citizens United certainly not helping), the fashionably cynical belief that all government is inherently corrupt is an idea that enables corruption.
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