The "Right" has always had a strongman complex. John Wayne was the epitome of the strong (white) man who knew what to do ... because he was the biggest, strongest, fastest with a weapon SOB in the valley. The Western mythology, that might equates to right, lived, breathed and propagated that scenario in countless Westerns in the 50s an…
The "Right" has always had a strongman complex. John Wayne was the epitome of the strong (white) man who knew what to do ... because he was the biggest, strongest, fastest with a weapon SOB in the valley. The Western mythology, that might equates to right, lived, breathed and propagated that scenario in countless Westerns in the 50s and 60s when the Baby Boomers were growing up and becoming the McConnells and Trumps and Grahams and.....
Then came the megaphone of the internet, honed by those unscrupulous, power-hungry, racists and refined by the MAGAphone of TFG and his band of me-firsters. They understood that a white lie (a lie told by white men) repeated often enough generates a life of its own which can be further manipulated into a sect-like movement which accepts no "truth" except that of the spreaders of that untruth.
And yet, John Wayne made sure he wasn't drafted during WW2. He played these big heroic men, yet in truth wasn't one. Just like the whiners (Tucker, et al) today. If these big mouths were in Nazi Germany, they would be cheering Hitler like all the others and definitely not trying to hide Jews and others, and doing what little they could against the Nazis.
The "Right" has always had a strongman complex. John Wayne was the epitome of the strong (white) man who knew what to do ... because he was the biggest, strongest, fastest with a weapon SOB in the valley. The Western mythology, that might equates to right, lived, breathed and propagated that scenario in countless Westerns in the 50s and 60s when the Baby Boomers were growing up and becoming the McConnells and Trumps and Grahams and.....
Then came the megaphone of the internet, honed by those unscrupulous, power-hungry, racists and refined by the MAGAphone of TFG and his band of me-firsters. They understood that a white lie (a lie told by white men) repeated often enough generates a life of its own which can be further manipulated into a sect-like movement which accepts no "truth" except that of the spreaders of that untruth.
And here we are.
And yet, John Wayne made sure he wasn't drafted during WW2. He played these big heroic men, yet in truth wasn't one. Just like the whiners (Tucker, et al) today. If these big mouths were in Nazi Germany, they would be cheering Hitler like all the others and definitely not trying to hide Jews and others, and doing what little they could against the Nazis.
John Wayne:
Playboy interview 1971: "I believe in white supremacy until the blacks are educated to a point of responsibility."
RE: Sacheen Littlefeather ”John Wayne wanted to go out there and physically yank her off the stage. It took six men to hold him back.”