This political cartoon is about the United States' current economic situation. The main view point this picture portrays is that no matter what the government does to try and fix the current situation, our economy is only getting worse.
The author of this cartoon is Clay Bennet who has won awards such as the Pulitzer Prize for his cartoons, and has had his cartoons in various newspapers as well as online cartoon websites. He drew this piece in context of the U.S current situation of economic stress.
The purpose of this piece is to show that nothing can work if it is upside down like the car in the picture. The economy right now is to the point where it just won't work anymore at the rate our country is going. His purpose was to show this through drawing his views for the national public. The audience that Bennet was aiming towards was most likely political activists in the United States and to inform the general public of what has happened to our economy.
Some rhetorical devices:
~exaggeration (exaggerating how bad the economy has become)
~placement (of the wires from working car, to the FRONT of the economy car)
~captions (within text where "stimulus" is placed, and "economy" as license plate)
~ bias (viewpoint of stance of economy/government)
The author accomplished his purpose because this political cartoon has gone viral all over the internet and has been looked at by thousands of people.
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