I had been planning to use this photo in a KOS diary for a while, but I really couldn’t think of much to add to the paint job. I still don’t know what to say about it, so I’ll just ask questions to which I have no answers.
I remember being struck at the time (March 2021)—Biden having been in office just over a month—at the vehemence of sentiment displayed. I mean, what provoked this pure anger? Biden was still on his honeymoon. The sentiments have not, apparently, subsided since that time.
One would have to admit that “Let’s Go, Brandon!” is easier to mom/dadsplain to children 3 years old or younger who haven’t yet learned the meaning of the word “fuck,” but when the phrase becomes a mega church chant or part of a Christmas card that includes “Merry Christmas” (for that extra dose of good old-fashioned Christianity), it is revealing to substitute the original words, “Fuck Biden!” It doesn’t sound terribly Christian in the original, if you know what I mean. But I digress . . .
Getting back to the pick-up, it looks like it could use paint on the doors and fenders, too. I wonder what it looks like today, now that the Trumpian lies and propaganda have seeped into the couches and shag carpets of Republicans nationwide along with stale beer and vomit? Hmm, should “They” hate arrogant fucks like me who say stuff like “seeped into the couches and shag carpets . . . along with stale beer and vomit,” suggesting They are all the equivalent of drunken trailer trash even if They don’t live in a trailer, are not trash and do not drink? Or call them “deplorables” even if some of them are not? (See, there I go again.)
And, as per a UMass poll released this week, why would over 70% of self-identified Republicans still, one year later, believe that Trump won the election? Because They are tired of being treated like the second-class citizens? Because the people They know to be the real second-class citizens--that is, minorities--get special treatment and free stuff from Dems?
Why do They risk the lives and well-being of themselves and their families to refuse vaccines and masks? Simply because it enables them to feel the warm flush of righteous power flow through their veins? Because their stand might frustrate Biden’s agenda? In other words, to own the libs? Because Dems, particularly the professional class, lord over them with money and education and polish and attitude? Because They are simply expenses on the P&L? Because They are pure commodities? Do I hear spoilt haggis (or is all haggis spoilt)?
But why do They risk death itself? Because it’s really a civil war? I really have no idea, but the hatred is real. How can it be diffused? Not sure, but I guess I could start with myself.