Been talking to a heck of a lot of my trucking buddies, liberal and conservative,

[Ol Janx Spirit]

92. Because they honestly

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don't see it that way...yet. They hold their ancestors "patriotism" in both the Civil War and WWII in high regard, and they oddly feel they are just continuing that tradition through this administration. Their Fox-addled brains see democracy as a tyrant that needs to be defeated lest they are forced to pay for food for a homeless person, school for a poor child, 20 cents more for a pizza so that workers can earn a living wage, have empathy for anyone not exactly like them, have to live in a society that doesn't meet some biblical ideal they fantasize has ever existed, and lose the ability to buy that 100th firearm they so desperately need to protect them from all of the things just mentioned. They see democracy as a fascist--or communist; they don't really know the difference--that forces them to care about people and things they don't want to. They've been convinced the freedom of all is encroaching on theirs--and is therefore a bad thing. It is the maddening sine wave of history: the Revolutionary War was fought to overthrow a king in favor of democracy; the Civil War was fought to try to allow democracy to continue to enslave certain people; WWII was fought to overthrow three fascist regimes bent on world domination; and today they fight to overthrow democracy in favor of a modern-day king.