If this is your first Kelly comic, I can get how one would read too hard into "honest citizens". It's really a catch-all for who the faux-artist considers to be the protagonist. For whom the statue of Liberty will ALWAYS be crying either in joy or sorry.
The choice is between a grand vision of the USA and its role in the world, and a superficial short-term promise that will have no significance in a historical context.
The Stan Kelly hook here is that the grand vision is also superficial bullshit that the Democrats can’t and won’t deliver on.
It's the onion, it's satire.
Kelly is someone who is meant to be perpetually wrong, and here he's saying it's a really difficult choice between freedom, democracy etc and believing the lies about cheaper groceries.
It's not meant to be , but the US isn't renowned for its intelligence these days.
like this https://theonion.com/my-way-or-the-fairway/
no one's making the case that Kamala would have sucked because the Secret service would want to play golf
Vote for your country or vote for capitalism, that's my take.
Pigs in political comics are usually capitalists.
would probably be funnier if we hadn’t already lived through decades of Q and tea party and Covid and anti-vaxxer and anti-flouride and flat earther and birther – artist is trying to parody right-wing idiocy but we’ve already seen far stupider stuff in real life
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