Al Capp on how his politics changed (or didn't)

"I really don't think my politics changed. You see, I've always been for those who are being shamed, disgraced, ignored by other people. That group has changed. Now it's the poor bastard who's rich -- well, I don't mean rich, and of course I always had Bullmoose -- but the poor son-of-a- bitch who worked, who was being denounced by the liberals. For Chrissake, these people are keeping the country afloat. They were denounced, and it got me damn mad. So talked about it, and I continued to talk, because one of the things found was that when was all for the liberal attitudes -- and I believed in them -- the conservatives showed me only icy contempt. I never got a letter from them. They just hated me. When I began attacking the liberals, the conservatives maintained their icy silence, but the liberals began denouncing me by the thousands of letters every week!

"I started asking myself, with these letters, 'How could a girl from Smith know this language?' and 'How the hell did a clergyman learn that expression?' They denounced me in the foulest terms. And I must say that it convinced me that if this is what attracted liberals, I'd better keep at it."

[in other words, his politics of only looking out for himself and getting enjoyment out of being mean to people never changed a bit. I can agree with this]