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title: If you want to learn the business, I can show you the route (Santa and the G.O.P. sack)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/berryman-santa-gop-sleigh-1946/
description: Santa Claus drives a speeding sleigh, its sack of toys marked 'G.O.P.', and says 'If you want to learn the business.
section: Collection
---

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[![If you want to learn the business, I can show you the route, 1946 US cartoon: Santa Claus drives a speeding sleigh, its sack](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/berryman-santa-gop-sleigh-1946.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/berryman-santa-gop-sleigh-1946.jpg)

# If you want to learn the business, I can show you the route (Santa and the G.O.P. sack)

Santa Claus drives a speeding sleigh, its sack of toys marked 'G.O.P.', and says 'If you want to learn the business, I can show you the route... that last passenger I had taught ME things!' The Christmas Eve date and Santa figure lend a seasonal symbol to a party-political joke (transfer, weak fit).

## Propaganda techniques used in this cartoon

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
IF YOU WANT TO LEARN THE BUSINESS, I CAN SHOW YOU THE ROUTE....THAT LAST PASSENGER I HAD TAUGHT ME THINGS!
G.O.P.
JIM BERRYMAN
```

[← Universal-International News title card: 'Eisenhower Says We Must Back Victory'](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/universal-news-eisenhower-back-victory-1946/) [Saxon referendum posters in an FDJ youth display, "Pfingsten 1947" →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/sbz-saxon-referendum-posters-whitsun-1947/)

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