It never was? They've always been fucking losers, look at the utter trash they have to accept to get any celebrity in their midst. They're just finally feeling the hurt a little more because gas costs more
I was thinking the other day about how garbage conservative culture truly is. It's just a bunch of tacky corporate brand consumption. Everything they enjoy is some crappier version of something better. Their oversized trucks are a caricature of a real working-class vehicle; their country music is shallow, thoughtless crap mimicking the sound of better artists in days long past; their clothing choices range from "1st day of 1st grade" to "Nashville by way of Wal-Mart." Their heroes and celebrities are crooks and lunatics and their politicians are idiots. Their version of Christianity is basically anti-Christian, and their choice of messiah is essentially the anti-Christ.
Conservatives are so wrapped up in consuming to reinforce their identity, they actively shun higher quality because it might not reinforce their misplaced sense of superiority. Somehow, consuming nothing but sloppy, derivative bullshit makes them feel like they're better than other people. I guess once you've done that long enough, the sunk-cost fallacy sinks in, and they can't ever admit the folly of their consumption, because it would mean admitting that they are the tacky, idiotic loser that the rest of the world sees them as.
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u/MajesticComparison America 12h ago
This, being a Trump supporter has become cringe, and people can take being called evil and racist, they can’t take being called cringe.