Republicans don't want their kids to be writers or artists

[quaoar]

According to this WH official, at least. Can't say I'm very surprised. I'd bet lots of Republicans want their kids to grow up to be lobbyists.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/10/AR2005081001791.html

Working under Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove, (Tim) Goeglein spends his time trying to mollify various conservative groups, and then transmitting concerns and demands to President Bush. As a political high-wire artist, he knows how difficult it is to distill the different strands of conservatism into a single idea or theory.

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Goeglein recalled a dinner party that he and his wife recently attended in Northwest. Out of the six couples around the table, Goeglein and his wife were the only Republicans.

As is inevitably the case, he said, the conversation soon turned to the couples' children -- most 5 or 6 years old -- and aspirations for their future occupations. One parent said editor; another, publisher; a third wanted the child to go into education.

"I was intrigued by the question, and the answers of every one of our Democratic friends," Goeglein said. Not one parent, he said, gave an answer that would be more typical of Republicans. "Our party, in the way it is constituted, we think of medicine, we think of law, we think of business. We don't think, gee, I hope my son grows up to be a great playwright or painter or poet," he explained.

[tk2kewl]

1. You need a soul for that so there is no hope for them anyway

[etherealtruth]

4. oooh, very good tk2kewl n/t

[Bumblebee]

8. and brain -- if you want people to be interested in what you have

to say

[Initech]

2. It's long been known that the Repubs hate the arts.

Really, is this news surprising at all?

[Starbucks Anarchist]

3. Of course they don't.

Creative professions require empathy and intelligence.

[The_Casual_Observer]

5. The whole country is out of control. This kind of polarization

isn't sustainable.

[iconoclastic cat]

16. Yeah, I was thinking that today, too.

Really, how much longer can this go on? And what will it become? Will there be a "hot" civil war? (The Repubs already declared war, but so far it's only been a legislative and vocal war.) I really wonder.

[justinsb]

6. Good, all of the Republicans should leave school at once

I think there are some recruiters who can offer them alternatives.

[ExclamationPoint]

7. Art has no bindings

Art is that which free's itself from the confines of the mundane. And it is the playrights, and the poets, and the painters that save the spirit of the world. Many republicans don't seem to grasp the idea that people can be doing something that is far beyond their control.

[Kurovski]

9. Actually, Republican writers have been creating myths

and trying to pass them off as reality for at least 25 years now.

For instance, Karen Hughes is an artist, albeit a bullshit artist.

[sinkingfeeling]

10. "We're fixated on MONEY, MONEY, MONEY."..he meant to say.

[Trillo]

12. Therefore, all they "understand" or "empathize" with

is what hits them in their wallets. That gets their notice.

[union_maid]

11. Yup

If it was up to the Republicans that exist now, we'd have no art, no music worth listening to and much, much less literature. We might has well be robots.

[DBoon]

13. Republic-Talibans!

Sounds like the regime in Afganistan.

I guess we could always have country & western, and maybe ted nugent.

[safi0]

14. Actually

A lot of immigrant families feel the same way as this. My parents and aunts and uncles strongly encourage there children to enter medicine, law or engineering.

[quaoar]

18. Also explains why

there are only a handful of Republican rock stars -- nutjobs like ted Nugent.

[Touchdown]

15. They don't want their kids to be soldiers either.

...there's no money in it. They only want to say "Freedom isn't free" not actually practice it.

[Contrary1]

17. self delete...my sentiments already posted. ;)

[sendero]

19. That's OK..

.... it almost never happens that a Republican creates any art/writing of any merit anyway.