Sunday Funnies

Here's the first Sunday Doonebury strip from way back in 1971. I thought it was striking because, if you think about it, Garry Trudeau was commenting on a phenomenon that we are seeing repeated today with the rise of the Tea Party. I wouldn't go quite so far as to say that it's an example of history repeating itself forty years later, but it suggests that many issues have gone unresolved in the meantime, not the least the disaffection felt by many citizens that they have much less control over the forces that effect their lives than they once believed.