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.

And the *actual* life they've been granted by their corporate masters is bleak & depressing AF, so white men are experiencing ongoing pandemics of drug addiction, loneliness, violence, abuse, & suicide. Yet all their rage is bent to defending the products those masters sell them.

To my point. This is so dystopic. https://twitter.com/MobileHarv/status/1613519792027074561

They fled cities into suburbs to feel isolated and safe from poor & brown people, but now they're even prisoners in their suburban homes, because walking around outside in suburbs means a gauntlet of poor & brown service workers! Gotta keep the kids inside, attached to screens.

Meanwhile, in Dutch cities the same 9yos routinely go to and from school, run errands, & go to see friends, all without parental accompaniment, thereby developing crucial skills (autonomy, wayfinding, decisionmaking) that will help them later in life.