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No, this isn’t any kind of serious post, really. It’s actually a satirical post featuring some goofy ideas I had this morning about alternative logos for the Democrats.

This, I guess, is the party’s official logo:

I grabbed it from Wikipedia, at any rate; I dunno

Interestingly, this is rarely what media seem to use; I think the Democrats are far more often represented by some sort of donkey-shaped variant of the official GOP logo, as the BBC does here. I’m not exactly sure what the deal is with this; it may be that most Democrats aren’t either. America’s two leading political parties seem to be more like the Cleveland Browns, in terms of standardized graphic identity, than like major political parties in say, Canada, or Britain.

But in any event, the Democrats’ emblem is a donkey, in some form. I think that much, at least, is pretty well established. And admittedly, if I were setting out to indulge in a little embittered mockery of “my” party, suggesting that they be represented by a jackass would seemingly be quite sufficient, you’d think. (It continues to afford the GOP endless merriment, after all; thank you, Thomas Nast.) Sufficient, perhaps, but also boring. So in light of the Democrats’ latest in a string of craven climbdowns, I’ve decided to explore some other options just in case they might better represent the party of mush: (more…)