“I love our country, I want to see it restored to what it once was before all this bullshit started happening to us,” country singer tells crowd after “long-ass week” of controversy
“I love our country, I want to see it restored to what it once was before all this bullshit started happening to us,” country singer tells crowd after “long-ass week” of controversy
Well, they also believe that America is identified by its small town culture. But it really isn’t. And I speak as someone who grew up in a very very small farming community.
The thing is that nothing happens in small towns. They’re generally static and full of people who have escaped the rest of society in one way or another. They are not the harbingers of the future, more like the leftover dregs of yesteryear.
That’s the rub. Nobody wants to be told they’re irrelevant. Of course they believe that America is defined by people like them, because the alternative is to accept that America is defined by a culture that might as well be aliens to them.
They are losing a culture war. They feel like they have to announce their relevance, but they don’t understand why that very thing means they are becoming irrelevant.