This cartoon symbolizes one election cycle. We can argue about how many people should be depicted on the siding, but since there are 16 people on the main line, the Utilitarian argument works even if there are up to 15. And that's what's been happening: Labor got tied to the tracks in the '70s with the election of Jimmy Carter. Poor people joined them with the election of Bill Clinton. Palestine as a whole got tied to the tracks next to them in 2024. And now, they're flirting with adding trans people to the line-up. And, no, that does not obviate the fact that the Republicans are indeed worse.

But that's beside my point. This cartoon doesn't depict the erosion of democracy and the crumbling of civil institutions. That can only go on for so long before the whole system fails.

My math is a little off, but can you remind me how many people died after 2018, again?

I recall it was more than one. COVID alone, I think it was somewhere north of a million, in fact.

Fuck the switch, rip up the rails.