I do think there are positive traits in c!Stephen besides good intentions. Conviction is not a bad thing. Faith is not a bad thing. Wanting to protect children is not a bad thing. It's only when turned into unthinking convinction, blind faith, and moral panic that they become problems.
(The description of "Stephen" is "well-intentioned, poorly-informed, high-status idiot." It's an improv stock character.)
I like your general idea about flipping the stereotypes, but a lot of your specifics just seem off. Most notably, "The GOP doesn't stereotype Liberals as wishy-washy..." Since when? You remember the buzzword "flip-flopper", right? There are 7.5 million results when you google "Bush" + "you know where he stands", and only 2 million for "Kerry" + "you know where he stands" - and most of the results on that first page are actually applying the phrase to Bush. Sarah Palin had that whole schtick about how you have to make decisions and "you can't blink." Certainty is one of the GOP's major selling points.
And you can't really lump "socialism" together with "fascism". Most socialist governments are democracies, and were elected to be that way.
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(The description of "Stephen" is "well-intentioned, poorly-informed, high-status idiot." It's an improv stock character.)
I like your general idea about flipping the stereotypes, but a lot of your specifics just seem off. Most notably, "The GOP doesn't stereotype Liberals as wishy-washy..." Since when? You remember the buzzword "flip-flopper", right? There are 7.5 million results when you google "Bush" + "you know where he stands", and only 2 million for "Kerry" + "you know where he stands" - and most of the results on that first page are actually applying the phrase to Bush. Sarah Palin had that whole schtick about how you have to make decisions and "you can't blink." Certainty is one of the GOP's major selling points.
And you can't really lump "socialism" together with "fascism". Most socialist governments are democracies, and were elected to be that way.