{"id":4492,"date":"2026-07-10T08:46:44","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T12:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=4492"},"modified":"2026-07-10T08:46:44","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T12:46:44","slug":"why-must-you-bring-class-politics-into-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=4492","title":{"rendered":"Why Must You Bring Class Politics into It?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/JPA556.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"560\" height=\"412\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/JPA556.jpg\" alt=\"Poltical Cartoon: Why Must You Bring Class Politics into It?\" class=\"wp-image-4493\" srcset=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/JPA556.jpg 560w, http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/JPA556-300x221.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It did occur to me to make Elon Musk the guy in the cartoon. After all, the newly minted trillionaire is very much the poster child for an absurd concentration of wealth leading to an absurd concentration of power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But I thought that would be letting all the other tech-bro billionaires off the hook. And there are plenty of them out there rigging systems, undermining democratic principles, and aligning with political authoritarians to spread fear so they can further concentrate their wealth and power. If you happen to have access to the&nbsp;<em>The Atlantic<\/em>&nbsp;magazine, they had an article on this recently:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/ideas\/2026\/07\/age-trillionaire\/687795\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Problem America Refuses to Address<\/a>: In the age of the trillionaire, inequality remains a defining challenge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not exactly light summer reading, I know. But then, these aren&#8217;t exactly light times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It did occur to me to make Elon Musk the guy in the cartoon. After all, the newly minted trillionaire is very much the poster child for an absurd concentration of wealth leading to an absurd concentration of power. But I thought that would be letting all the other tech-bro billionaires off the hook. And [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,13,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorial-cartoon","category-michiganpress-org","category-michiganradio-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4492"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4494,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4492\/revisions\/4494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}