A little boy goes to his dad and asks, "What is politics?"
Dad says, "Well son, let me try to explain it this way: I'm the breadwinner of the family, so let's call me capitalism. Your Mom, she's the administrator of the money, so we'll call her the Government. We're here to take care of your needs, so we'll call you the people. The nanny, we'll consider her the Working Class. And your baby brother, we'll call him the Future. Now, think about that and see if that makes sense." So the little boy goes off to bed thinking about what dad had said.
Later that night, he hears his baby brother crying, so he gets up to check on him. He finds that the baby has severely soiled his diaper. So the little boy goes to his parents' room and finds his mother sound asleep. Not wanting to wake her, he goes to the nanny's room. Finding the door locked, he peeks in the keyhole and sees his father in bed with the nanny. He gives up and goes back to bed. The next morning, the little boy says to his father, "Dad, I think I understand the concept of politics now." The father says, "Good son, tell me in your own words what you think politics is all about."
The little boy replies, "Well, while Capitalism is screwing the Working Class, the Government is sound asleep, the People are being ignored and the Future is in deep shit."
"What is politics?"
by WildTurkey 6 Replies latest social humour
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WildTurkey
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little witch
Bwaaahaaahaaahaa!! That is so right on. Thanks for the giggles WT
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myauntfanny
Love it.
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Golf
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GentlyFeral
This one dates from before the collapse of the Soviet Union:
Teacher: "Ivan, what is capitalism?"
Ivan: "The exploitation of man by man, teacher."
Teacher: "Excellent. Now, Ivan, what is communism?"
Ivan: "Just the reverse."
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Here's another:
Q: What is a Soviet Historian?
A: A man who can predict the past.
GentlyFeral
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seeitallclearlynow
Good laugh Wild Turkey! LOL
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Draconian
[In the Bad Old Days of the Soviet Union,] Comrade Duboff is assigned to a remote Siberian Village as Political Commissar but sees that the simple people there have been pretty much isolated from the currents of glorious Soviet history. So he announces he will hold mandatory Communist Party political meetings every Thursday night where he lectures on the origins of Communism and the history of the Soviet Union.
After a few weeks of this he wants to test out the people so he asks some simple questions. "Who was Marx?" he asks, but there is no response. "Well, then, who was Lenin?" Again the farmers and peasants give him blank looks. And then Duboff gets mad because he's been lecturing for weeks. "People, if you only paid attention during these Party meetings, you would know who they are."
Just then an elderly man in the back of the hall raises his hand, "I have a question for YOU, Comrade Commissar. Who is Kropotnik?" The Commissar is taken aback, and thinks about it, but for the life of him he can't remember any Committee member or Politburo member or anybody in the Party named Kropotnik. He ends up having to admit that he doesn't know.
The old man gives a toothy smile and says, "If you hadn't attended so many Party meetings, you would know that, every Thursday night, Kropotnik is the man who has been SLEEPING WITH YOUR WIFE!"