Described as "A father teaches his liberal, Democrat, college student daughter why she is really a Republican," this little gem caught my eye a while ago, but I had forgotten about it until recently. Featured on an Oregon Republican Party county page, I've also seen it posted various places around the internet.
I would love to see someone do an analysis of this. The paternalistic themes are overpowering, as well as the innate hatred of intellectualism and logic.
Enough babble, just dig:
"Welcome to the Republican Party"
| A young woman was about to finish her first year of college. Like so many others her age, she considered herself to be a very liberal Democrat and supported the distribution of all wealth. She felt deeply ashamed that her father was a rather staunch Republican which she expressed openly.
One day she was challenging her father on his beliefs and his opposition to higher taxes on the rich & the addition of more government welfare programs. Based on the lectures that she had participated in and the occasional chat with a professor, she felt that for years her father had obviously harbored an evil, even selfish desire to keep what he thought should be his. The self-professed objectivity proclaimed by her professors had to be the truth and she indicated so to her father.
He stopped her and asked her, point blank, how she was doing in school. She answered rather haughtily that she had a 4.0 GPA, and let him know that it was tough to maintain. She studied all the time and never had time to go out and party like other people she knew. She didn't even have time for a boyfriend and didn't really have many college friends because of spending all her time studying because of her more difficult curriculum.
Her father listened and then asked, "How is your good friend Mary doing?"
"Mary is barely getting by," she replied. "She barely has a 2.0 GPA, and all she takes are easy classes and she never studies. But Mary is extremely popular on campus. College, for her, is a blast. She goes to all the parties all the time and very often doesn't even show up for classes because she is too hung over."
Her father then asked his daughter, "Why don't you go to the Dean's office and ask him to deduct a 1.0 off your 4.0 GPA and give it to your friend who only has a 2.0? That way you will both have a 3.0 GPA and certainly that would be a fair and equal distribution of GPA."
The daughter, visibly shocked by her father's suggestion, angrily fired back, "That wouldn't be fair! I worked really hard for mine and Mary has done little or nothing! She played while I worked real hard!"
The father slowly smiled, winked and said, "Welcome to the Republican Party." |
2 comments:
I like the shoehorned-in explanation that the other girl is doing badly because she's partying so hard, so no one could speculate that she's working night shifts in order to pay her tuition. That's the real trouble with those damned lower classes! If only they wouldn't stay up all night drinking cheap fortified wine, they'd be able to go out and get decent jobs making quarter pounders or American flag lapels!
quinn, very funny and dead on! those repubs are ***holes, why don't we have a show that swaps those guys with someone (anyone) less fortunate? It certainly would be better than 'wife swap'wtf? They would have to stay a very very looong time for it to have any effect, and even then they could just go back to their cushy homes. They need to be educated....things aren't always what they seem, that guy is out of touch. If anyone saw the show Black and White, it was along similar lines, though both parties were equally affluent. And only one was really really IGNORANT. 'See if you just walk into a store and treat people kindly, then they will do the same to you'. WP think that with BP it's just all in their minds. BS!
peace.
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