User blog comment:Ulfric nord/the stormcloak rebilion/@comment-24.191.87.43-20130320033043/@comment-5790858-20130321023924

Imperial vs. Stormcloak is the new Democrat vs. Republican.

Interesting thought, I wonder if there's any correlation between real world political parties and the Skyrim ones. Like, do Liberals tend to side with Imperials, while Conservatives side with Stormcloaks? Theres a lot of similarities between them if you think about it.

Imperial/Democrat: Believe in a larger government that supports everybody, and wants to keep religion out of politics even though many of them have strong religious beliefs.

Stormcloack/Republican: Wants smaller government, large religious influence, and against immigration.

That's putting economic issues, and more controversial issues aside, but the general mindset seems to be the same.