He's Being Reductive Again
The Sarah Palin "Please Keep Me In The Media For Another Cycle" Tour is hilarious to me for at least one reason. She shows up at a motorcycle rally decked out in her most retarded I-just-bought-this-yesterday leathers and motorcycle to a crowd of mostly adoring middle aged types. The hilarious thing is that these middle aged men and women are all riding around on Harleys, wearing leather, jeans, and bandanas, and pretending they're the most bad-assed asses since asses went bad, because they are trying to relive the glory days of their youth, when they rode around on motorcycles, wore leather, jeans, and bandanas, and pretended to be the most bad-assed kids around. They were the rebels. They identified with James Dean. They weren't their parents, who were square, man! They're free! And they're not going to be like their stodgy parents.
Here they are worshiping a woman, who shamelessly promotes herself as one of the most conservative faces of a shameless party, which is the establishment that they are token-rebelling against. Yet there are no explosions of the mind.
I'm being reductive, I know. It's a trait I see in all of the middle aged men in my family. Riding around on Harleys - a truly shitty motorcycle -, wearing the full tribal uniform, and some of the most conservative people you would ever want to meet.
Here they are worshiping a woman, who shamelessly promotes herself as one of the most conservative faces of a shameless party, which is the establishment that they are token-rebelling against. Yet there are no explosions of the mind.
I'm being reductive, I know. It's a trait I see in all of the middle aged men in my family. Riding around on Harleys - a truly shitty motorcycle -, wearing the full tribal uniform, and some of the most conservative people you would ever want to meet.