How many people think this is a fair assessment of our country's two main political parties?

Question

This was an answer someone gave to another question. I've never heard the system described this way before...

" The 2 major political parties are like parents.

The democrats are like one's mother. Always the one who kissed boo-boos, tells you it will be alright, is nice to the neighbors, keeps things tidy around the house, says things like "wait until your father gets home", "well, lets see how can we fix this", and "nobody should do my kid wrong".

The republicans are like one's dad. Football, motorcycles, racing...hates the neighbors, but is nice because the wife will gripe, tells you to suck it up when you get a boo-boo, handles the bully down the street, goes to work at a job he hates, fixes things around the house, and is generally grumpy when it comes to your mom. Says things like "I don't care; ask your mother". "knock off all that noise", "stop whining" and "what did you do to deserve it" '

Answer 1

I like it. Good summation, simplified.

Answer 2

I´ve seen your political system and I would really not like to have it, so I work in Europe to try to avoid the supremacy of two parties.

The US is the only democracy I know with such bitter medias with so much hate toward the other party and bipartisanship is at its extreme.

On the top of that, there is no clear unbundling between the economy and politics since large donations can be done. In most other countries, the system is very different and a lot of them work better.

Furthermore, the president is not even representative of the real majority of the country.

Answer 3

no this is only partially true because the republicans don't hate our neighbors(other countries) because the U.S. has a pretty good standing in the world. also most republics don't care about dems. so if there nice it's not for dems. its 4 the people or the vote. the dems. also put off problems not fix them, example Clinton. it's also more complicated than that. this is something u would tell a 5-12 year old about politics.

Answer 4

The West Wing dicussed this in the episode "The Mommy concern". this is TVWOP's quote "you ought to make certain him out here, he's on hearth." Joey tells Santos that the concentration on the leak is "magnifying the inevitable mommy concern." Ronna wonders what which ability, so Josh explains that as quickly as voters choose a "national daddy" to be no longer effortless on risk-free practices subjects, they vote for Republicans. And whilst they choose a "mommy, to furnish them jobs, wellness care, the coverage equivalent of matzo ball soup, they vote Democratic."

Answer 5

Democrats will probably get uptight about this being a sexist view

Answer 6

Not me. I'm missing the sense of about half the analogies.

Answer 7

As far as analogy's go, pretty non-accurate!