It's the Day's Day of Days! Because turkey melt.
This fetid fever dream of a strip has it all--Muir ranting about the immigrants, Muir insisting hysterically that modern America is an evil police state in strife worse than anything in the Middle East, Muir insisting both parties are nothing more than a sinister COMMUNIST conspiracy unable to stand the might of Redneckistan and its mighty heavily armed hunters, Muir's terrible stock caricatures of political figures, and finally, Muir's patented bad softcore, here delivered during all the above.
It's simultaneously pathetic and worrying. This is the ranting of a weak, stupid man who thinks weak things are strong and stupid things are smart, and who writes this strip where he can make this so. Anyone outside the delusional bubble he dwells in realizes that the insurrection he's imagining here would be an utterly overmatched thing that would be crushed by the forces he imagines it would easily defeat. But even though such a group would lose, it would likely cause a great deal of death and misery in its wake. Muir imagines he would get a combination of the American Revolution and the Civil War (only with his version of the "good guys" winning this time). Instead he'd get an American version of the Years of Lead.
Your analysis is spot on. I feel like these guys are always imagining this fantasy version of a civil war, an action movie scene with them going out in a blaze of glory (or mostly making their enemies go out in a blaze of glory). Whereas the reality would look more like them getting shot in the leg and dying of gangrene somewhere, because the hospital has been attacked too, or languishing without enough to eat. I wish the people who scream for secession and violence would take just a moment to think about how much misery and chaos that would bring to everyone...but being thoughtful is not their strong suit.
ReplyDeleteOh, God yes. And well--I'm a country boy and I know hunters. They are not the iron-disciplined, exquisitely-armed army in waiting Muir imagines.
DeleteYep. There will be some serious right-wing disappointment if we ever get Civil War 2.0 (God forbid) and the "militia" comes shambling out of the woodwork.
Delete