I picture a well-to-do and relatively worry-free middle class father of four who drives a brand new truck, owns a massive home, probably does electrical work, and tells himself every day that the Democrats are ruining his way of life and encroaching on his freedoms.
I live in Alberta now and that's 80% of conservatives up here, except replace Biden with Trudeau and replace their way of life with even less to worry about than Americans.
Wears oakleys and under armour shirts with American flags on the sleeves, has a goatee and a shaved head; he has a McMansion with a huge yard, in a place just outside the suburbs, far enough away so he can drive his brodozer to the grocery store to pick up a six pack of bud heavy (none of that bud light trans shit (are they still whining about that?)), with no sidewalks so his kids can’t really go anywhere on their own and he can then complain that kids these days don’t go outside anymore and spend all their time on tiktok (posted on Facebook)
It’s crazy how cultural political views are these days. When I was a kid, everyone I knew just about was a democrat (coal country).
One goofy hat later, bam.
What really shifted my area though was environmentalism. People came out talking about how terrible their only means of living was for the world, started working to eradicate it, and forgot about the people dependent on it.
I imagine that in an ideal world, the end of the 90s wouldn’t have resulted in manufacturing jobs all going to China. Factories would have been built in Appalachia, unions would have thrived, and my people wouldn’t have shifted so drastically.
Nothing motivates hatred quite like taking the food out of a man’s mouth.
I had this guy move in down the street from me. Except more overwieght and only had a thin blue line flag. Apparently he owned a couple acres of land by the road. First the camper appered, followed by the beer cans and tarps strung up everywhere. His days consisted of sitting in various delapidated, cheap plastic lawn chairs and drinking. Clothing optional if it was hot enough. And let me assure he, he was a tighy whitey kinda guy. Or more like tighty browny if you know what I mean.
The county caught up with him a few weeks later, and that's when the portajohn appeared. This was not an improvement, because the wind blew it over and nobody stood it back up. Also the wind was shredding the tarps, creating these streamers of plastic that waved in the wind like those crappy inflatable tube men outside of the car dealership.
Finally it came out when he got arrested that he was hiding from arreest warrents in another state. Someone came and got the portocrapper and camper, leaving only the beer cans and shredded tarps as a reminder of our temporary nieghbor.
1 out of 10, would not recommend. Nothing like the smell of hot tipped over portojohn wafting on the wind.
I know a bunch of people who get them thinking they're "get out of a ticket free" stickers. There's also a more local version that shows support for our state police which are bought for similar reasons.
That said, I'm willing to give some benefit of doubt when I see them on vehicles but never if I see the big ass flags waving on houses.
Few things make me appreciate California more than my memories of nearly every creek with a bridge over it in Missouri having been treated as an impromptu landfill.
Someone had the gall to dump a washer and dryer on the side of the road on my commute, I was nervous it would enable others, but no other trash showed up, and after a week or two the washer and dryer were removed.
I wish. Where I live there are lots of perfectly manicured lawns with swimming pools, and several new-ish gas guzzling vehicles parked in the driveway next to the RV, and huge pro-Trump flags hung on garages and on flagpoles.
Yep, that boat parade Trump supporters did in 2020 where a bunch of boats got swamped by the wake of all the big boats. That was also representative of the red hat racists.
Yeah, when the musician has to go to someone else's "small" town to film the music video it says something. He filmed it in front of the court house in Columbia Tennessee. Not everyone was happy about that. Came out about the same time the majority black churches in the area started getting KKK pamphlets placed around.
Accurate. Also, people who call trump a Cheeto look equally stupid. It's not like there isn't a lot to attack there without hyper focusing on his skin color. Discourse in this country has gotten really childish the last few years.
I get that. It's always a little cringe-y when someone uses a (poor) play on words like Sleepy Joe or Donald Dump. It just feels like playground level insults and extremely immature, though probably pretty on par when it comes to politics.
I also feel like the right does this more, or at least more publicly then the left, however that could also just be because of my preference for social media. E.g. Lemmy.
In my experience the liberals keep it on the internet. I don't see any stores selling anti-trump merch, or pickup trucks with gigantic "FUCK ORANGE MAN" flags flying on them. It's still really childish and cringy regardless of the medium though.