Good to have you with us! I hope that's true, but I don't have a whole lot of faith in the bagger states. They're feeling threatened and backed into a corner because the world they believe in, and the "reality" they believe in, is repeatedly not able to stand up to these weird things called FACTS.
The world they believe in, the "America" they want "back" - is a fiction. They learned all they think they need to know or remember from "Leave it to Beaver" and "Father Knows Best" and "Ozzie and Harriet." And those were fucking SITCOMS! They were MADE UP! They were INVENTIONS! OF FICTION! They were NOT real. And they didn't reflect the reality of the time. Things weren't perfect with the perfect (white, king-of-the-castle) dad and the perfect (white, compliant, stay-at-home) mom and the perfect (white, fun-loving, innocent, and mostly-obedient) kids and the station wagon and the perfect (affordable nothing-bad-ever-happens-in-this) house with the perfect white picket fence. Where the weather was never a problem. Where there weren't any black people. And there really weren't any "Mexicans" either. Where everything was blissful and innocent and harmless and All-American-Perfect-Suburbia, and maybe there was an occasional Chinese guy who ran the local laundry or Chinese restaurant, but that was it. Everything else was white as driven snow. And upstanding and Protestant and ordered and nice. And nobody got drunk. Nobody beat their wives. No girls ever got raped. No girls even had to worry about going to work to support themselves or their fatherless children - because we all knew they were merely working toward their "MRS degree."
And CRIMINY! That is an illusion! That WAS an illusion even back then! But let's (literally) whitewash it all and decorate it in pastels and soft fuzzy focus, and that'll make it all better. And America can sleep peacefully at night. And see? It's on TV every night in prime time with all our favorite TV stars! And you know they couldn't say that or show that on TV if it weren't true!
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