Infographic of the Day: The GOP's "Dildo Rolled in Glitter" Rides Again (SFW)
Last year, Republicans gleefully produced a terrifying chart purporting to represent the Democrat plan for health care reform; an approach to political debate and problem solving that was best summarized by Jon Stewart:
Wow! That’s incredibly honest! You could spend months meticulously constructing a clipper ship piece by piece in a glass bottle. Or, you could do the Republican method and just roll a dildo in glitter.
The same committee who produced that last chart--the Joint Economic Committee minority, led by Republicans Senator Sam Brownback of Kansas and Representative Kevin Brady of Texas--is back at again, only with a chart that's even more hideous, complex, and crazy looking:
As Charles Blow, The New York Times's visual op-ed columnist, quips, "They’re using this chart like a drunken man uses lampposts--for support rather than for illumination."
There is, for example, this legend, which is basically a collection of political scare-words--"Rationing!" "Taxes!" "New Government!" "Mandates" "Rationing Again!" All this despite the fact that the best estimates available show that our new health care system should be able to cut costs by $1.3 trillion in 20 years. Not to mention that each of those words involve interpretation--which I'm not too sure we can trust in this case.
But on a purely design level, let's compare this new chart to the old Republican version. The content is leagues more ridiculous, but the new one is basically better designed--they clearly hired someone that knew programs other than PowerPoint. Granted, it's still hideous, but the sad thing is that it's better looking in the hopes of reaching more people--and further muddying the chances for and honest debate about health care.
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