Punk Republican

I remember reading somewhere (a while ago) that being an open Republican on a college campus was akin to being anti establishment way back when. So it was nice to read Trey Parker's rationalization/motivation for being "Republican." It's kind of cool because I definitely associate myself with being a "South Park Conservative" or more like a conservative with a libertarian bent.

TP: When we were growing up in Colorado, the way to be punk rock was to be kind of liberal, basically because we were surrounded by a bunch of rednecks. But I think both Matt and I kind of grew up being these rebellious kinds of liberals. But then we came to college and it was all those people, a bunch of hippies that we couldn’t fuckin’ stand, and then we go to L.A. and we’re like, “How the fuck do you be punk rock in L.A.?” So we figured, “What the fuck, let’s be Republicans.” It was the only way we could just say, “Fuck you, we think this way.” So I think that really confused people. It wasn’t until Team America that people got this Republican message—actually I don’t think it’s Republican at all, but more just this anti-super-liberal message—and that was the most anger we’ve ever got out of people. The thing was, it came out just before the election, and people were telling us that we might be encouraging people to vote for George Bush again, and we were, like, “Well, we don’t really care, the other option is just as bad.” And anyway, really, if you’re going to base your vote on what you saw at a puppet movie, seriously, dude, you shouldn’t be voting.

MS: The funny thing is, almost always in American entertainment, when a show has as much, like, cussing on it as South Park, those shows are almost always left-wing or whatever you want to call it. But we’ve done it from both sides and I think that’s just what freaks people out. Like, they don’t know how to react when we do something that isn’t exclusively left-wing. Then we get labeled right-wingers or conservatives. Even if you’re a liberal person, or a Republican, both sides, it’s like, if you can’t find some funny shit with your own stuff, then you’re just as humourless as some fundamentalist Christian that can’t hear shit and get offended. But it’s just as funny when we’ve done shows on the smugness of hybrid car owners. And people get really mad about that, going, “Can’t you see that hybrids can save the world?”

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They also trash talk Family Guy, which I've come think of as way too formulaic. The whole interview is worth a read if you are a fan of South Park.