Join or Die cartoon

Do you recognize the above?  Contrary to popular belief it is NOT a flag.  Not the same as the irritating Gadsen flag.  But rather a political cartoon published by Ben Franklin asking colonist to unite behind the idea of independence…the colonies needed to join together or die as a dream of an independent country….where freedom and equality would rule.

This cartoon shows a snake cut into eight pieces, each labeled with the name of one of the colonies. The position of each colony in the snake corresponds to the geographic position of the colonies along the American coast, with the snake’s tail pointing south and the head pointing north. The colonies, from tail to head (south to north), are: South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, and New England (New England referred to the colonies of Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and New Hampshire). The caption reads, “JOIN, or DIE.”

The cartoon appeared along with Franklin’s editorial about the “disunited state” of the colonies, and helped make his point about the importance of colonial unity.

If you already knew this I apologize but I felt I needed to give a bit of the back story for this post……

It is election time and what an election it will be……both sides of the joke we call the political system will be going negative….that is they will be highlighting the negative aspects of the others candidates….yes….I know this is nothing new….but it has began to get worse and worse to the point that absolutely nothing is getting done beyond re-naming a couple Post Offices………

As a political analyst I feel that this situation is getting more pathetic by the day, week and year….we, Americans, are no longer looking for a leader but someone who is NOT the current leader…..and look what that has gotten us in the last 20 years……

Back to the Franklin cartoon…..it is as important today as it was back in the 1700’s…..we do not have a unified country…..we do not have a country that is about the DofI anymore…..we are about a system, a 3 tier system, that is for sale to the highest bidder….all this influence from organizations other than the people is going down a road that will bring about the end of the system that our founder’s were willing to die for…….

Has anyone today asked….what is best for the country?  Oh sure…this candidate is better than that one….but NO one says why…other than some God ignorant crap about a political ideology…….it is a rel shame that our Founding fathers cannot see what a pathetic joke our system, that they designed, has become….

Please before someone reads every other word and starts lambasting me with political do-do….I am not choosing one ideology over another….bother these clowns are as responsible as the other…..and as soon as all Americans realize this can we get back to being the nation our founders foresaw……

But until then we will have a nation run by people that are out of touch with average citizens…..that are paid spokepeople for a wealth of special interests…………

On a side note: Dems blame Repubs, Liberals blame Conservs, candidates blame the president……….. civil discourse is dead in this country and that is the biggest contributor to the demise of the system……and since it is the strongest in the Congress….we need to vote for “NONE OF THE ABOVE”……I have absolutely NO confidence in the leaders of our government…..and the sooner we can replace ALL of them the better….but someone from another party is going to do NOTHING to fix our problems…..Washington is the problems and NOT the solution…….politics in America is ‘poli’  meaning many and ‘tics’ meaning blood sucking insects……that is the BEST I can say about our politicians!

The words of the cartoon is as true today as they were in the 1700’s……we Americans need to join together for a better country or we will DIE!