Your country on Democrats ... Your country on Republicans

[proud2BlibKansan]

[freshwest]

1. Yes, there is a difference.

[indepat]

2. And the differences are every bit as stark as depicted

[freshwest]

9. Agreed. The oppressive one is owned by the greedy old patricians.

[Scurrilous]

3. K & R

[LeftInTX]

4. Only one payday loan?

My neighborhood has about 20 of those

[NRaleighLiberal]

5. Bedford Falls vs Pottersville, indeed.

[freshwest]

7. Perfect analogy. First one, still fighting them off. Second, battle lost because of lost hope.

[amuse bouche]

6. No doubt about it..under Rethugs, it's Pottersville

Scary

[lame54]

8. on the repug side...

where are the castles of gold in the gated community?

[WhoIsNumberNone]

10. They left out the tenement house for the poor people

Or is that what the republicans building off in the distance?

Also, the republican side needs a big, for-profit industrial prison.

[jmowreader]

14. It's there. See "The Projects"?

What the Republicans are building off in the distance is either a strip mine or a housing development for Californians who sold their houses and moved out of state.

This is kind of funny: North Idaho has had, in the last decade or so, a major influx of California Republicans. The fuckers sell their houses for very high prices, run up here, and push up the real estate values with all the money they bring in. (Right now, you can get far more house for your money if you buy in Spokane County, Washington, than in Kootenai County, Idaho...and the two counties touch. And the two counties have very similar topography...but the Republicans don't want to live in a place with a Democratic majority, which Washington has even though it's 200 miles away.) The California Republicans say they can get these prices because "no one wants to live in California anymore." Guys, guys, guys...if no one wanted to live in California no one would have paid you a million-five for your house. The reality is Republicans are like the villains in a sci-fi flick...the Empire in Star Wars, the Klingons in Star Trek or maybe the Spaceballs. They go somewhere, destroy it and move on...and right now, where they've moved is Idaho.

[WhoIsNumberNone]

21. I've been likening them to these guys for quite some time...

[WhoIsNumberNone]

22. And these guys for even longer....

[HuskyOffset]

31. Yes!

Combine that movie ("They Live&quot with Idiocracy and I think you've got America's future if the Rebublican party gets its way.

[They_Live]

41. it's already uncomfortably close

to both of those films. time to turn this thing around.

[wickerwoman]

18. Also the army recruitment centre.

That dumpster diver looks fit enough to serve his country.

[Raffi Ella]

42. yeah,

the right side needs a military industrial complex for their never ending war profiteering and the left needs a higher education center.

[jmowreader]

11. Not nearly enough gun stores on the Republican side

And where's the McJobs and Day Labor place?

[bonniebgood]

12. Where is the single woman and her 6 children sitting on the

street curb with a beggar's cup for food and shelter?

[Mnpaul]

13. Red or Blue?

[SHRED]

15. should read under left and under right

[wake.up.america]

16. Great. That illustrates my sentiments exactly.

[savebigbird]

17. Has anyone else noticed...

...that the left side features buildings which are all about the same height, while the right side's buildings are all different heights?

[jmowreader]

28. That's how Republicans build

That thing running down the middle is a river, correct? Because Being Able To See The Water is a valuable thing in Repukeland, every time Republicans build a building in an area with a lake, river, swamp, ocean, creek, large chuckhole or sewage lagoon they build a shortish building next to the water feature, then every building after that is taller so the residents can see the water.

[Kennah]

32. That's way more involved than my explanation.

I was going with the "My dick's bigger" approach to building in GOPland.

[jmowreader]

38. That too

[quinnox]

19. I love it, and oh so true

[demwing]

20. Apparently, only Republicans

have churches, or smoke and drink.

And Dems only eat organic.

Nice stereotypes...

[Historic NY]

27. Churches down on the other side of town away from the strip clubs....

take the train.

[caseymoz]

37. A televangelist church.

If you look at which side televangelist churches support, it's a bit closer to the truth.

[harmonicon]

58. Yeah...

I look at it like an illustration to show that Democrats are prudish assholes. I don't get why people like this little picture. I think it's insulting on so many levels.

[demwing]

64. Right?

Makes us look like sanctimonious hipsters

[harmonicon]

68. Something like that.

Where did the ore come from to make the steal to build the track and the cars for the light rail? Mining has to happen. Oil drilling has to happen. Chemical manufacturing has to happen. Those are all pretty great things. What's not pretty great is giving them insane government subsidies and favouring them over more sustainable alternatives when alternatives are available. It's things like this that can make blue collar workers turn away from the Democratic party, which is a shame, because Republicans really will fuck them over.

[Coyotl]

23. "Junk in the Box" LOL

Double meanings there.

[Rozlee]

24. Hey, you forgot a few stoners.

Maybe they've got some primo good stuff growing in the community garden. The pill heads would be on the Rethug side.

[harmonicon]

59. Oh, yeah dude, 'cause kind bud is totally like from mother nature, man.

People who want to get high in other ways are just total downers, bro.

[DebJ]

25. Missing gun shops on the right side. n/t

[yardwork]

26. There's a lot of truth in this.

[Wolf Frankula]

29. You forgot the Locally Owned Microbrewery

on the Democratic side.

Wolf

[lrellok]

30. truth

[dorksied]

33. This is inaccurate. The right would be massing an army to slaughter the left and take their stuff.

[GTurck]

34. Just a bit...

hyperbolic? Still the evidence so far is that Republican leaders really do think their version is good business and we will get used to the downsides...or at least accept them in order to have more things.

[Little Star]

35. Love this!!! k&r

[caseymoz]

36. Why is the strip club a Republican thing?

Meese Commission? Seems to me the sex industry is both non- and bi-partisan.

If not for that, I'd say thumbs up.

[wickerwoman]

47. Hypocrisy.

There actually are more strip clubs in the Bible belt, they are better attended and porn sales are higher.

All of that holier than thou bullshit is really overcompensation. Look at all of the vehement anti-gay preachers who are secret closet cases.

[cascadiance]

57. Portland, OR has more strip clubs than churches...

... and many people here know it to be a pretty liberal town. Though the hypocrisy component is correct, I don't think that this business sector necessarily is prominent just by political persuasion of the surrounding community.

[SunSeeker]

51. Utah has the highest online porn consumption.

Must be all that misogyny and repressed sexuality.

From the Salt Lake Tribune:
"Utah is No. 1 - for online pornography consumption"
http://www.sltrib.com/ci_11821265

[pandr32]

39. The truth is that the neighborhood on the right will collapse quickly--

just like our economy did.
I've been keeping track of the "businesses" I pass by and find that just about all the "ma and pa" businesses are corporate franchises, and a lot of new strip malls sit have empty. After rezoning agricultural land or tracks of trees to build them and put in the parking lots for the large gas-guzzling vehicles, there is no chance for someone who wants to start a boutique, a mom who wants to open a consignment children's clothes store, a local grocer, a cafe/gallery, etc., to afford the leases costs and terms to get into those empty spots and start one-of-a-kind businesses that give our communities flavor and uniqueness. We are all slaves to the corporate empire and our "majesty" of shining beauty across the land is already mostly gone--and the remainder is already eyed for exploitation.

[pandr32]

40. Oops...meant "half empty"

[woo me with science]

43. I wish that were still true.

Unfortunately, we now have a largely corporate-controlled neoDemocratic party that is supporting most of the same economic, war, and police state policies as Republicans.

Our infrastructure is crumbling and our President and corporate Democrats in Congress are supporting more oil drilling, privatization of the Gulf of Mexico, job-killing free trade agreements, corporate education deform, big agriculture, for-profit health insurance, militarized police departments, surveillance drones in our skies, warrantless surveillance of emails and phone calls and internet use, coordinated federal spying and assaults on protesters, indefinite detention, billions more for war and Israel, austerity budgets and slashing of block grants and social programs in an economy that has already devastated its middle class, and assaults on Social Security.

I long for the old Democratic Party, whose policies would create a picture like this.

[subterranean]

44. There would be no library on the Republican side.

[Tx4obama]

45. There needs to be a liquor/cigarette store on the left too !!! :)

Some of us Democrats drink and smoke too

[SunSeeker]

52. And a "Smoke Shop."

[zentrum]

46. At least as the Dems used to be

Can't count on [link:http://|enough] members of the current crop. The picture applies to the democratic wing of the Democratic Party.

[Glassunion]

48. I'm assuming the coffee house house has free wifi, but where is the clothing optional beach?

[HughBeaumont]

49. Unfortunately, seeing too few "left sides" and waaaaaay too many "right sides" . . .

. . . primarily thanks to the "good" folks in the "IGotMine" estates that thought Bewsh 43 was the key to salvation, gobs of money and the country club entrance.

[Kablooie]

50. Potterville nt

[Liberal In Texas]

53. The right side needs a prison

Brilliant piece of work though.

[Initech]

54. Correction: The right side needs a prison corporation.

[Liberal In Texas]

55. LOL

Yes it would be privatized.

[harmonicon]

56. I've seen this before, and I fail to get it, really.

I'd choose to live on the Republican side. It has a public housing apartment building and a liquor and cigarette store.

[Cha]

60. Whoa.. excellent graphic!

Thank you, p2BlK!

[demwing]

65. Excellent?

lol, whatever

[Cha]

66. "lol, whatever"? Yeah, Excellent.

To show the stark difference between the two cultures.

[demwing]

67. OK!

[Jamaal510]

61. The Republican library is open only 2 hours a week??

BTW whoever made this pic could've also included a church and a liquor store on the Dem side. There are some of us who are religious and/or drink and smoke.

[former_con]

62. Nice graphic

Seems nearly impossible for them to defend that crap but they do, I used to, I have seen the light enough is enough.

[proud2BlibKansan]

63. Welcome to DU!

[cecilfirefox]

69. lol, priceless- totally going to my fb. nt