Mafalda
This comic uses a classroom setting as a metaphor for politics. The teacher represents the politicians and the class represents the people. The teacher is teaching the class overly simple things. Mafalda goes up to the teacher to tell her that they want to learn more useful and important things. This means that the politicians are not telling people what they really need to know and instead wasting their time with unimportant things.
The Peanuts
This comic is about the misinformation people are given through the media. Lucy represents the media while Charlie represents the general public. Lucy ignores what Charlie is trying to tell her and instead makes up her own story. Charlie responds by telling her that she would make "a good political columnist" implying that the political columnists are unreliable.
Comparison
Both of these comic strips deal with information that is available to the public. The first one is saying that people should not be babied by politicians and told the important things rather than simple lessons that they already know. The second one is about how media does not accurately represent how are in the world of politics. Both of them seem to be pushing for a change to fix these problems, or they are at least trying to warn people the dangers of believing that everything you are told is important or true.
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