It's the Day's Day of Days! Because The Mountain Eagle.
You know, after endless depictions of cities as urban hellscapes prowled in by criminal scum, we get the other popular reactionary vision of them--decadent and wasteful places that offer luxuries that sap the spirit and will. This is Muir at his most shallow and hypocritical--he doesn't actually mind luxuries at all, provided they're the luxuries he's coded as good. Many of which are coarsest, most vulgar things imaginable, as I've noted before, the trucknut as a symbol of virtue.
It's the way of the fascist who wants a narrow blinkered world where everything he loves gets declared either high culture or true culture, and everything else is degenerate filth.
This one I found truly fascinating, because both Muir and the people commenting in the Peanut Gallery are the type I would normally expect to defend capitalism and running a business. And yet here, because said businesses are set in a town which votes mostly Democratic, they are suddenly a symbol of evil--even though they are likely small businesses run by hard-working middle-class owners. The connection between the sundress shoppe and the creamery and evil socialism is a bit fuzzy and unclear...as well it should be...but the Peanut Gallery still accepts it as a given.
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As with so many other comments from this bunch, I'm just left asking "What on earth are you TALKING about?" All this scenario applies to are corrupt communist autocrats and those who joined the revolutions that brought them to power. Who else? Certainly nobody living in the social democracies of modern Europe.
Isn't he a fucking Canadian? He should know that, no, socialists don't invariably fail and starve, because, you know, the NDP didn't turn Saskatchewan into North Korea.
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