Let me count the ways

 It's a sad sign of the state of my mental block that the above cartoon is what I feel compelled to write about but we must find inspiration where we can, mustn't we?  Is political cartooning not one side of a dialogue anyway?  I can't organize my thoughts into a coherent whole but I can list some of them.  Here follow some artless notions that the above compels in me.  "There's a lot to unpack" as the youngsters are wont to say. ^_^

• I sense some bitterness here.  Is the cartoonist okay?

• Is this a prediction?  Is there supposed to be a point?  Is it just moaning?  If it's just moaning that's okay.  I'm not sure I get the point if it's supposed to be an argument.

• This looks like it might be the artist's conception of how voting for "the lesser evil" will go. Can you imagine for a moment how it will go if "the greater evil" wins?  Is it better or worse? 

• There seems to be a suggestion that we know how things will go if Biden wins.  There's a recycled feeling to the proceedings.  Recycling will be bad. Okay.

• Who is this cartoon trying to convince?  Is it vote shaming true believing dems?  Is it an argument against voting for Biden aimed at fence-sitters and nose-holders?  I'm starting to think it could really just be moaning.

• What did the cartoonist expect?  Biden has already said nothing will fundamentally change. We already mourn that this is the best we can hope for in the next couple of weeks.  It's still a change that we hope for.

• Maybe the message is more subtle than I'm giving it credit for.  Maybe it's an entreaty to Biden himself to be better than the cynics expect him to be.  That could work!

• I suppose the point of the piece is that we all die in the end.  I can't argue with that.

• I'm trying to imagine the me in 2024 that suddenly gets the message that the cartoonist was trying to send me from 2020.  2024 me is feeling nothing.  

• Dying really showed the Democrat!  

• It's nice that the artist portrays the Democrat as caring about the dead person's vote.  From my perspective it's a problem that real-life Democrats in non-cartoon world aren't demonstrating enough concern about  non-voters.

• Why do I not feel sad about the death of the passive complaining Biden victim.  Has my heart become so hardened?