david robertsI've said this before but the most pathetic thing about current RW culture wars is that they are defending a lifestyle -- giant SUVs, highways, strip malls, fast food, suburbs, poisonous/deadly consumer products -- that is 100% a creation of late-20th century corporations.
It's not some authentic just-folks small-town Mayberry life. It's a life of shitty, dangerous, disposable junk, foisted on these people by multinational corporations, and they're out defending every bit of it with their lives, like f'ing chumps.
One universal truth about the forces of reaction -- at any time, in any country -- is that they are being relentlessly exploited, manipulated, and grifted from above by people who don't give a shit about them, and they never seem to care.
The Big Daddy tells them to get angry about light bulbs, they get angry about light bulbs.
Actual small-town rural life maybe involved a rifle for hunting. Now reactionaries have been convinced by gun manufacturers, through their quislings at the NRA, that a true authentic American lifestyle involves owning multiple military weapons. Just absolute chumps.
Neil A. Evans@drvolts It's the craziness of having an arsenal you could never use - the idea that if the government ever did move against you that the 101st airborne wouldn't unleash a thermobaric weapon on your mountain hideaway... if the government were ever to really genuinely come for these nuts all the guns in the world wouldn't help them.