Uncle Sam, you’ve gotta change with the occasions.
The thin, venerable outdated gentleman within the pink, white and blue go well with and starry hat who has symbolized the US in every part from recruiting posters to political cartoons because the early nineteenth century is now 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 finances on beneficiant and strategic support to poor and unwell folks 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 now not a precedence and our nation is, as a substitute, taking the side of authoritarians, oligarchs and kleptocrats around the globe, Uncle Sam wants an up to date look.
The brand new Sam needs to be an unreliable, pea-brained however muscular bully who makes unilateral calls for as a substitute of constructing associates; a man at residence within the insular, uber-libertarian, cage-fight fan bro tradition the place the garish wealth and bullying, and boorish habits, of President Donald Trump is admired and celebrated.
America’s picture on the planet is quickly morphing, so our conventional symbols should be reworked, as properly. 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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