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This lengthy comic is a philosophical meditation on political ideology and group cohesion. It opens with the observation that "if you have a self-consistent view, you'''re going to have problems." The first example shows a "free choice rally" where attendees''' commitment to free choice leads to an infinite regress: one person says all free choice should be protected, another questions whether that includes the choice to have laws, and a third doesn'''t recognize the concept of recognition itself. In a self-consistent ideological framework, you inevitably run into these recursive contradictions.

A second example shows communists arguing: one serves the proletariat by writing pamphlets, but the pamphlets are produced by the means of production they want to reduce reliance on, and another dismisses it all saying the pressure waves in his mouth from singing the Internationale are enough. The comic then proposes the solution: "If you want your group to hold together, you need an ideology that doesn'''t make any sense." It introduces the "Floobicratican" party, whose platform is deliberately nonsensical -- they stand for more freedom unless it'''s a freedom they don'''t like, in which case they call its restriction patriotism.

Once a group has a nonsensical platform, members can define the group however they want, so the organization persists. A Floobicratican proudly declares allegiance based purely on family tradition. When challenged that an organization should stand for something, the response compares political parties to cows: "Cows exist to make more cows. Cows that deviate from that goal are culled from the gene pool." Political parties, like organisms, exist primarily to perpetuate themselves, not to achieve ideological goals. The comic ends with a Floobicratican rally where the candidate'''s mother is the only attendee, and the slogans are vacuous: "More betterness! Less worseness!"

The votey drives the point home with a politician demanding "More less worseness! Now!" -- the slogans becoming even more meaninglessly recursive, perfectly illustrating the comic'''s thesis about how successful political movements rely on vague, self-contradictory messaging rather than logical consistency.