As a criticism of the DNC, the meme’s pretty close to the truth, even if it does inspire apathy – like Lucy yanking the football away every time, it’s the DNC who sabotage nominees who intend to implement effective change of the system.
But since there’s no other viable ball to kick, the electorate need to kick anyway – and spend the rest of the time organizing on a national level and engaging politically on a local level to shitcan Lucy. (This metaphor isn’t especially extensible!)



















The illustrator is G. B. Inwood, but I can’t find much about them.
Edit: the illustration might be from Volume 92 of The Judge, a publication from the University of Iowa, from 1927 – but I don’t trust Google Books to get the publication dates right.
Edit 2: Google Books was correct. Here’s the full magazine. This picture’s on digital page 4, numbered page 2.