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"Right wing" element to the main premise/weight behind the show?


Is this any way supposed to be presented as "better" really? I mean I get the different perspectives, as the show tries to push more of a conservative-ish touch on things -- but how much for the "superiority" aspect?

Like the show's premise of it being right wing American-esque is clearly an ongoing hit to its opposite -- democrat/"left-ish." I get it's comedy and I do like the show; however, if the goal of the premise was that "right wing is better," in a way it dug its own grave by crapping on the left as much as any more "left-ish" media would crap on the right.

There's blood on both sides and their hands. Emphasizing the more "right-ish" political/social aspects doesn't really drive home the point of it being better from the show's POV. I probably might be overlooking/digging too deeply in to this, but thought I'd mention it.

I feel the show has the whole strong point centered on, "This isn't left-ish but right-ish." Any more media considered "left-ish" doesn't necessarily follow the concept of pointing out the sides and centering the show's premise around it -- but that could be due to the implication that all media is presumed to fall under mostly "left-ish" labels by default.

Also, hate that IMDb got rid of these boards natively on their site. Now you'd have to have two accounts to both talk on the boards and rate stuff/review it.

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