OUR DEMOCRACIES rely on voters. Voters have to make choices as to who or what ideas are going to represent these choices. Choices are made on various influences:
— what’s best for me?
— what’s best for the “community”
— I trust an ideology
— Party politics
— PROPAGANDA
PROPAGANDA is a funny beast as it can be the truth being spruiked or lies being promoted as truth.
How do we find out we are not lied to?
Being an old dog — a political cartoonist since 1951 — Gus hopes that he gets it right at most times. Experience tells you that roses have thorns and cupboards may have skeletons in them…
Nature can tell us a lot about deception and traps or webs of deceit, in order to assure survival of a species — or the extend of territory.