Thats not a political post,just a guess of the political orientation of the characters in general.
Ted- Progressive Democrat (Bernie Sanders style)
Lily- Moderate Democrat (Hilary Clinton style)
Marshall- Progressive Democrat like Ted
Barney- Republican
Robin- Republican
Tracy- We dont know her very well but seeing how she is identical to Ted i would say Progressive Democrat too.
Lily left Marshal in the first season to be a painter in San Francisco. That puts her in progressive territory. I'd agree with Marshal since he wanted to be an Environmental lawyer. I'd call Ted a more moderate Democrat since he seemed more reformed from his douchey hipster ways in college.
shareTed - Progressive unless it didn't suit him personally. ie I can't see him losing money through taxes.
Lily - Moderate.
Marshall - Given he is an environmental lawyer he would be Obama style all the way.
Barney - Republican.
Robin - Republican.
Tracy - Democrat.
I think this may have been one of the last shows where politics didn't come into play. As in there wasn't even any Woke themes or anything going on in the background.
Agree i love the fact that they werent very woke. Nowadays social justice warriors on the web often tries to attack this series saying that it was racist,sexist,etc. but honestly i dont care about what they say
shareEven Marshall and his environmental lawyer job weren't used as a soap box for anything. Barney's behaviour and how it was played for laughs would send the SJW's into meltdown, no way would you be able to do this show now. Not in the same way.
shareRobin would definitely be a Republican for her love of guns.
shareNot anymore. The GOP are the new anti-gun zealots. Trump screwed over half a million law abiding Americans by classifying their bump stocks as contraband machine guns when he had 27CFR amended. No compensation for the victims of his gun grab. Whenever I ask a Trump supporter why this was the right thing to do to Americans, they trot out the usual anti-gun rhetoric.
No one needs a machine gun.
No one needs that kind of gun.
What do you need that for?
Trump didn't do it, the ATF did.
Yes, Americans are supposed to be stupid enough to believe this crap. :)
Yeah sure now that Dementia Joe wants to take away your AR-15.
shareWHy would anyone need an AR-15. thats just overkill for guys with small dicks. Here in canada most people dont own guns unless they are hunters or law enforcement of some type, and you know what hardly any mass shootings. While nutcases like you are the reason there is a gun on every corner and a new mass killing daily.
shareIt's not always about needing something, there should be extreme limits on what the state can dictate that we can and can't have. we've gone so far away from the concept that politicians are our employees and that they work us and are elected by us. we now have a very small political class dictating what the other 99.999% of the people can and can't have, can and can't do.
Like you already know, it's in the constitucion, and it's in there because america was founded by people who had fled dictatorships. they had seen the consequences of the french revoluction that handed too much power to the state. and it would be very naive to believe that it couldn't happen again.
Maybe people don't need an AR-15, but it isn't up to the state to tell us what we do and don't need. as for your last point a very ironic thing happened in 2012, when adam lanza killed 26 people with guns at sandy hook, that very same day in china, Min Yongjun killed the exact same number of people at chenpeng with a knife.
I would disagree on one point, the Constitutional Convention happened in 1787 and the French Revolution started in 1789.
shareI was just saying that the role of the government had changed in europe, the french revolution being a major factor. it gave the state the role of God. but it was just one of many things, maybe the french revolution happened after the constitution convention but this same mentality and ideology was affecting freedom, it had millions of people wanting to flee europe, because they weren't free to practice their religion or weren't allowed to progress and improve their lives. I'd even say that the europeans who left europe a hundred years ago were a consequence of that.
The american constitution is a product of a group of people who didn't want to commit the mistakes the countries they had left had made.
The left lost the gun control argument when they sided with domestic terrorists last summer. Yes we need to continue to be armed and that includes having an AR-15.
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Ted- Latte liberal
Lily- Latte liberal
Marshall- Latte liberal
Barney- Republican
Robin- From Canada so a Latte liberal
Barney was always the transparent one
I'd have to say more than likely they'd be a mixture of republicans and democrats, young, living in NY and at times very idealistic.
But i don't think that marshall or ted would be so progressive, at times marshall took jobs that paid well and didn't care too much about his idealism, ted had a very traditional way of seeing the world, he believed in the concept of the nuclear family, he wanted to get married, he wanted kids, he even bought a house for the future, wanting all this, lily and marshall were also like that. this isn't generally how the progressive left sees the world.
Barney would have liked trump, this corporate way, robin too, with her guns her no nonsense attitude.
They weren't woke, they weren't progessive, i mean take the most liberal person on the show, whoever that may be, could you imagine them complaining about pronouns and wanting genderless bathrooms? (well barney would have liked that)
They all had well paying jobs (i'm not saying that democrats all work at white castle), people with money tend to understand the economy, they know socialism doesn't work and don't want high taxes, they for the most part believed strongly in traditional values, like the family and none of them was politically correct. so it's safe to say they weren't the progressive type, but not exactly hardcore republicans either.
Definitely agree with this
shareI join in complimenting your post.
As young people, they apparently embraced the hippie culture in college, but it’s clear this was mainly to feel cool and fit in at college—not because they were truly progressive. When they grew up, like many baby boomers, they became part of the bourgeoisie, focusing on family, children, and building successful careers. I think Ted, Lily, and Marshall are all moderate Democrats, none of them leaning toward progressivism.
Ted is an everyday guy. I’ve never seen him as political person—he seems to care only about living a happy life. Marshall is a kind of environmental activist, rooted in the classic green community; but he tries to change the world through institutional means. Lily is definitely a moderate Democrat. I believe she would despise progressives and woke culture. Among the three, I think she has the highest likelihood of having voted for Trump in the last election, especially given her work as a kindergarten teacher.
Robin and Barney—there’s not much to elaborate on here. Both are clearly Republicans, which is one reason I think they make a much more compatible couple than Robin and Ted.