Duck Dynasty Clan: Vote for Hillary, We Dare You

[WhiteTara]

http://news.yahoo.com/duck-dynasty-clan-vote-hillary-000000007.html

Sometimes the stereotypes are true. Most hunters really are rural, male, white, old … and conservative. Many are lifetime card-carrying members of the NRA and Second Amendment stalwarts. It’s safe to say there aren’t a lot of Hillary supporters in this good ole boys’ club.

But there’s another side to the story. Hunting folk are also dedicated conservationists and defenders of public land, which puts them in direct opposition to their Republican brethren. The reality is you can’t hunt without public land to track or animals to stalk — and it’s the Dems who have the better record on conservation and environmental issues. Hunters are told it’s either red or blue. Guns or land.

But what if America’s camo-shaded gunslingers, already standing on fissured political ground, took a full-on leap into the ideological abyss? Willie Robertson and the rest of the Duck Dynasty family, I dare you: Vote for Hillary.

If they did, I hazard, we might have a good, ahem, shot at saving America’s backcountry. And just maybe, guns will go back to what they once were — a survival tool, not a statement. “It’s not an either/or proposition,” says Randy Newberg, host of the popular hunting TV shows Fresh Tracks and On Your Own Adventures, as well as a born and bred conservative lifetime member of the NRA. “We’ve let ourselves be pigeonholed in the political world.”

It wasn’t always like this. Going back to the 1800s, hunters have been at the forefront of the conservation movement, and the reason is simple. Few understand the land or are as invested in its health as the ones who rely on it for food. To this day, hunters and anglers pay a huge chunk of nature restoration costs. At one point, the NRA was even on the same side as conservationists, but as politics have shifted and splintered, the same politicians seen as pro-gun champions of rural America are now the ones selling the land from right under their constituents. And I think most can agree that selling public land to private interests is not entirely based on ideological principle; it’s about the Benjamins.

Didn't he do a commercial for Cruz? I wonder the change of heart.

[Brickbat]

1. Most hunters are male and white, but its close to a 50/50 breakdown for rural/urban and the median

age is early 40s. And pretending that hunters voting Democrat is this crazy amazing thing is just silly.

[Initech]

2. I'll vote for whoever the Dem party nominee is!

And why should we give a fuck what those Duck Dynasty people think?

[Chiyo-chichi]

3. I don't think there's been any change of heart.

The writer of this article is simply suggesting that if the Robertsons & their ilk wanted to vote in their best interests, they would vote for Democrats.

One could write articles all day long "daring" right wingers to vote in their best interests for a change. Pick a topic. There are plenty.