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Who were the writers of Parks and Rec making fun of with the Ron Swanson character?
Posted on 5/4/17 at 10:51 am
Posted on 5/4/17 at 10:51 am
Libertarians?
Liberals?
No one?
Liberals?
No one?
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Posted on 5/4/17 at 10:53 am to weagle99
No one. I think they just thought it was funny to put a guy who hates government in a government job. They were right.
Posted on 5/4/17 at 10:55 am to Byron Bojangles III
Almost everything Ron Swanson says in that show is the truth.
Posted on 5/4/17 at 11:18 am to weagle99
I literally agree with everything Ron Swanson says.
Posted on 5/4/17 at 11:26 am to weagle99
He was created to be the opposite of Leslie Knope while still getting along.
He is the Libertarian to Leslie's Liberal
He is the Libertarian to Leslie's Liberal
Posted on 5/4/17 at 11:31 am to redfishfan
I found that his having a rifle shot as his ring tone was insensitive, inappropriate, and hilarious.
Posted on 5/4/17 at 11:39 am to weagle99
I feel like they might have been making fun of me.
Posted on 5/4/17 at 11:39 am to NWHoustonTiger
Yeah if they were making fun of him, they would've made him a bad guy or a dumb guy
If anything they were just making fun of the idea of the "ultimate man" and all the short comings it comes with
If anything they were just making fun of the idea of the "ultimate man" and all the short comings it comes with
Posted on 5/4/17 at 11:41 am to weagle99
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No one?
It's a pretty specific character. It's normal to have someone in the office who hates the industry that they're in, but rarely are they the boss.
Posted on 5/4/17 at 11:47 am to redfishfan
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literally
i see what you did there
Posted on 5/4/17 at 11:47 am to redfishfan
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literally
i see what you did there
Posted on 5/4/17 at 12:43 pm to weagle99
They were making fun of hardcore libertarians. The unspoken central joke was that Ron Swanson was not a libertarian. He was, by any philosophical measure, an anarchist. So when some audience members started identifying with his 'libertarian' nature, the joke went right over their heads.
This post was edited on 5/4/17 at 12:44 pm
Posted on 5/4/17 at 12:55 pm to weagle99
Posted on 5/4/17 at 1:19 pm to weagle99
Nick Offerman said in his book that a lot of "Ron Swanson" was based on his father.
Posted on 5/4/17 at 1:30 pm to LSUBoo
May be the best character in comedy history
This post was edited on 5/4/17 at 1:35 pm
Posted on 5/4/17 at 2:13 pm to Antonio Moss
This post was edited on 5/4/17 at 2:14 pm
Posted on 5/4/17 at 2:41 pm to DirtyMikeandtheBoys
Posted on 5/4/17 at 2:48 pm to Fun Bunch
The best part of Parks and Rec was that it was brilliant governmental satire, without trying to bash politics over your head. Well, and the fact that it is hilarious.
Posted on 5/4/17 at 3:14 pm to randomways
Looks like I hurt some feelings. 
Doesn't change the fact that Swanson was very much an anarchist being presented as a libertarian. The central conceit was that Swanson represented such an excess that it made a mockery of people who take libertarian principles to the extreme. Seriously, go collate his pithy sayings, professed beliefs, and paranoid ramblings and then look up anarchy as a political philosophy. They're virtually indistinguishable.
Doesn't change the fact that Swanson was very much an anarchist being presented as a libertarian. The central conceit was that Swanson represented such an excess that it made a mockery of people who take libertarian principles to the extreme. Seriously, go collate his pithy sayings, professed beliefs, and paranoid ramblings and then look up anarchy as a political philosophy. They're virtually indistinguishable.
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