Father-daughter talk.... the truth about liberalism

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Father-daughter talk....

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 among other liberal ideals, was very much in favor of higher taxes to support more government programs, in other words redistribution of wealth.
She was deeply ashamed that her father was a rather staunch Republican, a feeling she openly expressed. Based on the lectures that she had participated in, and the occasional chat with a professor, she felt that her father had for years harbored an evil, selfish desire to keep what he thought should be his.
One day she was challenging her father on his opposition to higher taxes on the rich and the need for more government programs. The self-professed objectivity proclaimed by her professors had to be the truth and she indicated so to her father.
Her father responded by asking how she was doing in school.
Taken aback, she answered rather haughtily that she had a 4.0 GPA, and let him know that it was tough to maintain, insisting that she was taking a very difficult course load and was constantly studying, which left her no 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 she spent all her time studying.
Her father listened and then asked, 'How is your friend Audrey doing?'
She replied, 'Audrey is barely getting by. All she takes are easy classes, she never studies, and she barely has a 2.0 GPA. She is so popular on campus; college for her is a blast. She's always invited to all the parties and lots of times she doesn't even show up for classes because she's too hung over.'
Her wise father asked his daughter, 'Why don't you go to the Dean's office and ask him to deduct 1.0 off your 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's a crazy idea, how would that be fair! I've worked really hard for my grades! I've invested a lot of time, and a lot of hard work! Audrey has done next to nothing toward her degree. She played while I worked my tail off!'
The father slowly smiled, winked and said gently, 'Welcome to the Republican party.'

If anyone has a better explanation of the difference between Republican and Democrat I'm all ears

that one has been flaoting around since the reagan years. maybe earlier.

A Democrat is a person who taxes the rich to give money to the poor while taking a percentage off the top; believes that an entire state should go without water to preserve the habitat of an endangered species; claims that criminals are only misunderstood victims of society and that their victims should try to understand this; calls illegal immigrants 'undocumented aliens'; prefers a tax-and-spend economy where a worker's take-home pay is reduced by increased taxation.

A Republican is a person who taxes the poor to give money to the rich while taking a percentage off the top; believes that an endangered species is doomed to die anyway, so it's okay to turn its habitat into a barren wasteland to keep a state's industries running; understands that crime victims somehow deserved to be victimized while at the same time calling for more police protection and prisons; calls for greater surveillance of foreign-speaking people; prefers a spend-now-tax-later economy where a worker's take-home pay is in the form of an unemployment check.

simplistic cynical and somewhat bogus but i would like to see a more concise description.

the two links below will set you straight if you choose to believe them.

Democrats: Democratic Agenda

Republicans: Republican Platform

Wow, this forum just gets worse and worse. And I thought it hit rock-bottom with that 'Nietzsche rapist' thread...

Scary! It's like the philosophy forum got its own personal version of the little old spinster from Oklahoma who works in your office, wears blue eyeshadow, muumuus and sparkly crucifixes, and passes the email forwards about Obama being the antichrist while sipping coffee from her Precious Moments mug.

@ the OP is it possible for you to have an original thought, or do you just post old idiotic stories that appeal to people with low IQ's that cannot analyse and deduce there stupidity. This seems to be a trait amongst many christian republicans, they seem to read and regurgitate little one liners and parables that are the epitome of Strawmen.

On another topic you just started, you said the following:

Without reading the responses, I'd prefer that the OP provide her own thoughts as opposed to merely posting stories that she agrees with.

Beyond that, it is important to understand the political spectrum. I've said this before, but I'll go ahead an say it again.

A left-right one-dimensional line cannot possibly account for the entire political spectrum.

You need to look at politics as a 3-dimensional cube where the axis are as such...

Economic Liberal - Economic Conservative
Social Liberal - Social Conservative
Libertarian - Statist

Personally, I am an economic conservative, a social liberal and a libertarian. As such, I appreciate many conservative ideals, but abhor social conservatism. I am all for a flat-tax rate, but I am also pro-choice and pro-gay rights.