Keith B Martin DC 
Ah! The American cowboy! Alas . . . it was all a myth. A couple tiny quotes: "But that image was never based in reality. Constructed during Reconstruction after the Civil War to stand against government protection of Black rights, it was always a political narrative. In reality, the federal government provided more aid to the American West than to any other region." And: "But for Americans, particularly American women, reality trumps the Republicans’ fantasy, and they are demanding that their right to reproductive health care be protected." And much, much more. #GQP #GOP #PathologicalLiars #Hipocrits #GOPDeathCult #HeathereCoxRichardson https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/june-25-2024?utm_source=substack&publication_id=20533&post_id=146004648&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&utm_campaign=email-share&triggerShare=true&isFreemail=true&r=9u4zz&triedRedirect=true
June 25, 2024
These days, reality is undermining the political power of the mythological image of the American cowboy. In the years after World War II, that image helped to sell the idea that a government that regulated business, provided a basic safety net, promoted infrastructure, and protected civil rights for Black and Brown Americans and for women was cruising perilously close to communism. The cowboy image suggested that a true American was an individualist man who worked hard to provide for and to protect his homebound wife and children, with a gun if necessary, and wanted only for the government to leave him and his business alone.