Frazz by Jef Mallett for November 06, 2018

At first I thought this was an error … until I saw the last panel. Clever, Jef.

I would assume that people who read this strip would be thoughtful and also conscientious enough to vote?

Haven’t missed an election in 49 years!

I asked my 5th grade teacher this very same question years ago.

Good effort though, Caulfield.

Wonder what atmospheric effect would result if every undecided person made up his/her mind at exactly the same time?

maybe children should vote because it seems that supposedly mature adults are the ones that are killing our children in their schools and shopping malls and concerts

OK, Jef, since you’re repeating your silly point I’ll repeat my response. The reason kids don’t vote is that they are mentally and emotionally immature. Is this really something that you don’t understand?

D@mn old white males.

Vote as if the lives of your grandchildren’s children depended upon it, and as if the lives of the people who live across town from you, or across the sea from you, loved their children and future generations as well.

Of course!

If you don’t vote, thank you. I vote in every election. You are saying that you trust my judgement and are willing to let me decide your future. Be aware however that you are letting someone else do your thinking for you. If enough people do that, our country dies.

After you actually have to pay taxes, you have different ideas about just what taxes should be used for, and how much of what you earn is somehow not really yours after all.

The recycling bins are a nice added touch to the joke. Well played.

Early voting is my friend.

Thinking of the kids is also thinking of my retirement.

Frazz is right. I’m thinking of not voting just to spite everybody who kept telling me to vote.

I just finished reading Chris Hedge’s “America: The Farewell Tour”. Granted it’s a long and drawn out liberal rant, but it’s hard to argue many of the statements and the likely outcome. So while it’s too late this time, voting in the future may need to take some of these issues and realities into account.

All of us with children and grandchildren – regardless of our party affiliations – vote with their futures in mind, and only idiots would assume otherwise.

All ballots should have a “None of the above” option.

Quiz time children of the 60s; name the artist…“it’s always the old who lead us to the wars and it’s always the young who fall/come show me what you’ve won with your sabers and your guns…and I ask you is it worth it all…” The older I get [and I am plenty old] the more I realize whether or not we learn our history, we are still doomed to repeat it.

Frazz16 hrs ·

Charles Schulz said that a cartoonist is someone who draws the same thing day after day without repeating himself.

History repeats itself while throwing something new at us every day.

Whew. Cartooning isn’t history.

I will say this about cartooning and history: They can both be approached passively or interactively, and they’re both way better when the latter is the case. Now go vote, please.

When the Constitution was drafted, after the Articles crashed and burned, you had to be a 21yr old White Male Property Owner to be able to vote-the idea being you had the most skin in the game. And it was a LONG time until it was given to Blacks, and even later Women. It wasn’t until the last few decades of the 20th century that the age was lowered to 18. And there is talk of raising it back up. Now since you are Mallet’s alter-ego in the strip you can say these things. But the truth is research has shown that our brains aren’t fully developed until our 20’s. Nor do we have life the experience and “skin in the game” till then. So NO!!! people under 18 shouldn’t vote. There has also been suggestions that we move all local and national elections to the day after Income Taxes are due. I kinda like that one too.