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In reply to the discussion: Why Do Conservatives Love Cowboy Culture? [View all]Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)48. Reality Check: the life of a real Latter Day Cowboy
is minimum-wage slavery in service at a stinking, reeking corporate CAFO (confined animal feeding operation), moving cows and shit around.
republicans (and their russian BFFs) have their twisted, weenie fantasy of being FAKE cowboys, so they can pair their fantasies with the FAKE news they use in their ongoing War on Decency & Democracy.
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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