Bugs Bunny Politics

When Bugs and Daffy found themselves at an intellectual impasse, the solution was most commonly for one of them to bash the other in the head with a large mallet. When Sylvester the Cat was being troublesome, Tweety Bird often countered his machinations with a carefully aimed piano to obstreperous feline’s head. Elmer Fudd generally found that a short-range shotgun blast to the face of his opponent had much the same effect.

No one was ever actually hurt. Daffy saw stars and chirping birds for a moment, Sylvester dragged himself out from under the piano and dusted himself off, and whomever Elmer blasted was left disheveled and covered with dark grey dust that was quickly brushed away.

To listen to our nation’s public discourse today, one would be easily forgiven for thinking that the physical realities of Bugs Bunny’s primary-colored, two-dimensional world were also those of our own…

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