"Welcome to the Republican Party" ~ A Parable

Is this Parable Accurate?

NO

 

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Yes

 

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Somewhat

 

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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 was for 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. That she studied all the time, 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.

That she was taking a more difficult curriculum.

Her father listened and then asked, "How is your good friend Mary doing?"

She replied, "Mary is barely getting by." She continued, "She barely has a 2.0 GPA," adding, "and all she takes are easy classes and she never studies." "But Mary is so very 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." He continued, "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, I did without 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"

Obama ≠ Marxist

Hey! Did you hear what President Barack Obama is doing now?

 

You didn’t hear this from me, but President Obama is negotiating another big giveaway of taxpayer dollars, this time to the health care and pharmaceutical industries as part of his health care bill. I shit you not!

 

Evidently, these new dollars are following after a lot of old dollars which the President already gave away to some banks, and then to some companies that make insurance, and then to some other companies that make cars. 

 

I have to admit, I get a little bit mad when I hear this stuff, because I’m a taxpayer, and I was planning to use some of those dollars to buy beer.

 

So I watched my television. I listened to my radio. The people there, they knew just what to call President Barack Obama.

 

 

Wait… what? Marxist?

 

As the great Inigo Montoya once said: “You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”

 

As much as I hate to do this, I think it might be time for a little review. Try and follow along with me:

 

 

“Marxism” is a word that comes from the name “Karl Marx.”

 

Karl was a very hairy European dude who lived a long, long time ago. Karl saw the world in black and white. He divided everybody up into two (2) groups:

 

 

The people on the left, in the chains? That’s the Proletariat. These are the good guys. People like you and like me. Karl said we’re the ones who do all the real work.

 

The people on the right, with the bags of money, are the Bourgeoisie. They are the bad guys. People like your boss’ boss’ boss. There’s only a few of them, but they make the Proletariat do all the work, and then they take all the money.

 

Karl says this is what happens in an industrial capitalist society. He meant us.

 

Karl said this. Not me. But a Marxist would still believe that today.

 

So get this: Karl wanted to take money from the Bourgeoisie and give it to the Proletariat (now with money, on left).  

 

 

See the arrows?

 

Then he would send the Bourgeoisie (in flames, on right) to Hell. (I’m paraphrasing.)

 

Now that is Marxism! Marxists want this stuff.

 

Recently, our industrial capitalist society was popping along as usual when – suddenly and without warning – the Bourgeoisie lost all their money. It just disappeared one day. No one was quite sure where it had gone.

 

 

But then Barack Obama came along. He took money from the Proletariat (on left) and gave it to the corporate Bourgeoisie (still on right, with money) to make up for the money they’d misplaced.

 

 

As you can see, this is not Marxism. Look at the arrows, Barack! They’re going the wrong way, stupid!

 

This is bass-ackwards from Marxism.

 

A real Marxist would HATE this!

 

I know what you’re thinking: But if Barack Obama is not a Marxist, then what the hell is he?

 

 

What do you call a system where most of the common folk work their fingers to the bone all day long and then have to hand over the fruit of their labors to a bunch of rich corporate dudes sitting around in castles?

 

Well?

 

There’s gotta be a name for it: