The secret conservative message of the “Duck Dynasty” beards

[socialist_n_TN]

25. Agree. Reading WAY too much into it.........

Almost ALL of the Bolsheviks had some sort of facial hair also. Engels had a beard.

I personally think it's probably some sort of attempt to co-opt a certain set of redneck culture and mainstream it. For profit too of course. To a slightly conservative, average white guy working in an office strangled by a tie every day, this look (and the entire culture represented by the show from what I've read because I've never seen it probably represents some sort of freedom. Not only the freedom from that aforesaid tie and office, but a freedom to let long held biases hang out.

And since these biases are a large part of the attraction of fascism, the mainstreaming of this culture would prepare a sub-group of society with the possibility of being the Brown Shirts, IF capitalism needs that to survive.