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Showing Original Post only (View all)Why Do Conservatives Love Cowboy Culture? [View all]
I've often wondered this. Conservatives have this unhealthy list for being a cowboy like nothing else. They seem to think that if a white male conservative wears a cowboy hat and blares country music, that it's somehow the greatest thing since sliced bread. I mean shit, their favorite professional football team is called The Cowboys!
Is that why they have such an unwavering desire to take us back to those times? Got to tell you, from everything I've ever seen and read, those times weren't that great.
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Lawlessness, "rugged individualism," stealing then cloaking with respectability...
UTUSN
Nov 2017
#2
Yes, they need an identity. They need to have an image, a model. Shame that being themselves
The Wielding Truth
Nov 2017
#33
In other words, BLAZING SADDLES was much more historically accurate than anyone realized.
Ken Burch
Nov 2017
#71
Because they like familiar imagery over reality, and "familiar imagery" amounts to...
JHB
Nov 2017
#14
AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!! AAAAAAHHH!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!
hatrack
Nov 2017
#26
I'm lucky they can't see the Nocona boots I'm wearing. Then I would be in trouble.
mahatmakanejeeves
Nov 2017
#83
I wore a cowboy hat to work this morning. I'm going to wear it home tonight.
mahatmakanejeeves
Nov 2017
#75
feeds on their false narrative of american history and when people "knew their place"
beachbum bob
Nov 2017
#57
My republican relatives listen to country music and they are so not "country" type people.
smirkymonkey
Nov 2017
#70
Also, outlaws like Jesse James were ex-confederate soldiers. That is DEFINITELY part of what they
anneboleyn
Nov 2017
#74
In the case of my pa, his pa was an asshole cowboy. The only person in a household of 8 who got
Corvo Bianco
Nov 2017
#76