Cartoon characters' political beliefs (Serious thread)

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Has anyone here ever put any thought into the political parties that cartoon characters vote for? Here are some of my educated guesses:

Bugs Bunny: Democrat
Daffy Duck: Libertarian
Porky Pig: Republican
Mickey Mouse: Republican
Donald Duck: Republican
Goofy: Democrat
Winnie the Pooh: British National Party
Wallace and Gromit: Labour
 
I was thinking the other day, what if cartoons got saved?
They'd start singing praise in a whole new way.

Fred Flintstone would say, "Yabba-dabba-doo-ya!"
Scooby Doo would say, "Scooby-dooby-doo-ya!"
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles would say, "Cowa-looya, dude!"
Then there's all those little blue guys who would say "Laaah lah lah lah lah lah laaaah lay loo yaaaaaaah!"

Note: this is a real song, and the man was serious; look it up.
 
Optimus Prime: Right-winger, mostly libertarian but with some conservative values. War is the solution! Voted for Reagan and cried at his funeral.

The Smurfs: Communists. Duh...

Inspector Gadget: Conservative. Holds zero sympathy for law breakers.

The entire Scooby gang other than Scrappy: Left-wingers. Velma is a militant feminist and Marxist, Fred and Daphne are actually just yuppies who call themselves "hippies" because they think its trendy, and Shaggy and Scooby are just in it for the weed.

Scrappy Doo: Extremely right-wing, which of course just makes the rest of the gang even more annoyed with him. Is a fan of Nixon and wants to turn Iran into a parking lot.

Every character on South Park: Closet-conservatives. They call themselves libertarians, but in the end, they do want to keep marriage a thing between a man and a woman.

Every character on The Simpsons: Left-leaning liberals; they just dont always realize that they are (except Lisa, of course). But living in a universe where right-wing politics are objectively the source of all evil, they all do have a little lift-winger embeded somewhere in their hearts, however hard he may be to find sometimes.
 
^This is the greatest post ever.

I shouldn't have to mention Family Guy, it's pretty obvious that Brian is pretty liberal.

I have a feeling the Powerpuff Girls are conservative though.
 
I know this is a joke, but this entire thread still diturbs me deeply. I don't even like people giving themselves political lables; and now it's reached my cartoon characters:crying: .

Still, I feel like pointing out that every Peanuts character is a secular humanist. And no, I don't know what it means. Neither did Schultz:p
 
Even if Schulz was later in life, I really doubt Linus is a secular humanist. He has too much faith in the irrational. Besides, that's a religious, not a political label.
 
Oh yeah, absolutely. Blossom is a staunch republican, Bubbles believes in whatever Blossom tells her to believe, and while Buttercup is kinda drawn towards the the punk subculture and its counter values (although mostly on a very superficial level), in the end she is willing to do whatever uncle Sam needs her to in order to serve her country. She is also a strong supporter of capital punishment.

This is so much fun. How come so few others want to give it a try?
 
I wonder if we could class Argentinian comic book character Mafalda and her friends in the same category as the Peanuts characters?

In American Dad, Hayley Smith seems to be a "social liberal"

Rocket Robin Hood is a sort of libertarian in space fighting against tyranny.

Tintin is more difficult to classify, he helped some younger folks like Chang (the Blue Lotus) and Zorrino (Temple of the Sun) but fighted some authoritarian figures like colonel Sponz (the Calculus Affair).
 
I've heard it said that Batman is a serious right-winger whereas Superman must be a metropolitan lefty. It seems to me, though, that this ignores that Superman was raised on a farm and was brought up by the Kents very well and raised as a "good American" generally. You can look at how he uses his powers and try to claim that he leans left since he stands up for the common man, but you can also say that he leans right since he could make himself a tyrant but respects his fellow man too much to do so. The more I think about it, the more I believe that Superman defies any ideological category. I'll call him a conscientious independent. He has his values and that drives him to use his powers to stand up for anybody and everybody that needs him. He's an ideal hero, and that transcends any mere label.
 
Since when is that necessarily a right-wing value? There have been both right-wing and left-wing tyrants.

I think Batman's political views tend to change depending on whoever is writing him.

From my understanding, SEELE is a communist organization. But then, I doubt I really understand anything about EVA.
 
If we're talking G1 Optimus then the closest earth equivelent to the Autobot system of government would be somekind of hereditary theocracy.

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I sure don't remember anybody voting for this guy, do you?
 
What I was trying to get at is that by not abusing his power against others, he is respecting the rights and freedoms of individuals. It's an issue that seems to stand out in Superman: Doomsday as well as the whole Justice Lord plot that went on in Justice League.
 
It's kind of hard for me to associate right wing with "the rights and freedoms of individuals." Economically? In theory. Socially? That seems like something the left wing is doing a better job at respecting than the right. Libertarians respect both, but seeing as they're more or less anti-government and Superman tends to not be, I doubt he'd fit into that category.
 
Hmm, how to respond without getting in too deep...well, it is at least a given that most legitimately right-leaning folks dislike the centralization of authority and power in one place--much less one person. Right-wing ideology denounces socialism and outright hates communism. Superman's rejection of absolute rule seems consistent with that sort of sentiment.

Somewhat related to this, they apparently did a what-if comic called Superman: Red Son that explores what might have been if Superman had landed in Soviet Russia instead of the U.S...sounds fascinating.
 
Communism is to the left wing as Fascism is to the right wing: both are totalitarian, centralized, and wrong extremes. It's just that Communism centralizes the money as well as the law. I think most legitimately left-leaning folks would agree such extremes are wrong. It's not an issue of political sides: it's just general human sense.
 
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