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03-22-2009, 04:17 PM
Troynos
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I don't see Cobra has having a political agenda, and definately not facist.
It was started out by a disillusioned man, disillusioned over the business world, disillusioned over the government and disillusioned over life. It's how alot of the militia organizations start up and recruit.
"The man getting you down? Tired of those less skilled then you getting higher then you?"
Stuff like that. There are political undertones and racist undertones, in so much as the "leaders" use those undertones to help push their message forward and recruit people.
"Tired of the illegal immigrants taking your jobs? You can thank a government that does nothing about them for that."
You take that worldwide and you get Cobra.
They can't be political, that would lose a large chunk of their recruiting power worldwide. They're more "standing up for the little man".
Everybody has had someone pushed over them, who didn't deserve it, or had something taken away because of the system; where others that you know cheat the system get away with it. That's the message that Cobra put out there.
Remember, that's how Serpentor was able to recruit from within Cobra and create the COIL in the DDP comic, by this time CC had strayed away from his original message and Serpentor played upon that to recruit those that felt disillusioned by Cobra and now saw CC as the "man".
There was a time, not that long ago, just after my divorce, when I was struggling to pay the bills. Had lost my job, barely keeping my apartment, barely keeping the kids fed and such (and they were my ex-wives kids that I still took care of, long story..). I had neighbors, boyfriend and girlfriend with a 3 year old. Neither of them worked. She had an anxiety disorder where she couldn't deal with people, so she got social security. They basically lived off welfare.
Here I was, working my ass off, not taking handouts, and as far down as I could go, and there were people that didn't do anything and didn't work (even though they could have if they really wanted to) and they survived.
Even now I get annoyed. My ex-girlfriends sister and boyfriend can afford 60" HD tvs and they barely work and live off the state and "workman's comp" (he can't work because he's "hurt", but he's okay enough to go and buy a nice truck and do some plowing and snowblowing on the side and still get his nice check).
It's stuff like that that made it easy for Cobra to recruit.
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