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In reply to the discussion: Why Do Conservatives Love Cowboy Culture? [View all]DonCoquixote
(13,616 posts)66. to paraphrase a greta Texan, Molly Ivins
"most of these guys are "all hat and no cattle" meaning they want to wear a big hat that makes them look the part, but anyone who worked as a cowboy would know these guys would useless or worse on the range. It also helps that so many of them have no idea how poor they would be if their daddy did not support them (like the current POS in chief)
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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
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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