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 | | Bagge, however, connects his violently negative aesthetic reaction to a set of stock libertarian arguments against the NEA and other forms of public funding - ignoring the fact that private support outpaces public funding by billions of dollars, and that most of this art is the product of private patronage. |
 | | Bagge’s ultimate argument comes at the end of page 3, where he mentions the “working-class appeal” of big box megastores and describes a mall in suburban Seattle as “a low-income heaven.” If malls are so inclusive, he implies, then critics of malls must be insufferably elitist. |
 | | Bagge departs from libertarian dogma more successfully in other strips, most obviously those that poke fun at libertarians - although at least one of these comics, “Fair-Weather Idealists” (December 2001), mocks libertarians for not being libertarian enough, for abandoning their principles in times of economic crisis or terrorist attack. |
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