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Snackshack

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24. Unfortunately

Mon Nov 20, 2017, 12:27 AM

Nov 2017

The “Cowboy” has been mythologized to be a tough, rugged, chivalrous, fair individual. There were some (Bass Reeves, Seth Bullock for example, both US Marshals) but many were nothing near that. I think most people have more of an affinity to the era as opposed to the character. There were very little regulations on anything, guns were everywhere and justice (when it happened) was dealt swiftly. Conservatives are advocates of all 3 of those ideals. I doubt many conservatives would last long if they suddenly found themselves in that type of environment.

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Why Do Conservatives Love Cowboy Culture? [View all] Initech Nov 2017 OP

Brokeback Mountain Fantasies? nt Xipe Totec Nov 2017 #1

Lawlessness, "rugged individualism," stealing then cloaking with respectability... UTUSN Nov 2017 #2

Reality Check: the life of a real Latter Day Cowboy Achilleaze Nov 2017 #48

Those poor animals. How inhumane. CrispyQ Nov 2017 #64

Hurts even to think about it. calimary Nov 2017 #78

A good reason to only eat grass fed beef womanofthehills Nov 2017 #90

This. CrispyQ Nov 2017 #65

+1! Corvo Bianco Nov 2017 #77

Actually, they were only about 50% white Nac Mac Feegle Nov 2017 #94

Gives them the mental allusion of toughness. Blue_true Nov 2017 #3

And how cruel and criminal many were. nt Ilsa Nov 2017 #7

That too. nt Blue_true Nov 2017 #9

Yes, they need an identity. They need to have an image, a model. Shame that being themselves The Wielding Truth Nov 2017 #33

They also have no idea that the largest percentage of cowboys were Mexican. Jim Beard Nov 2017 #35

Pretty much Dem2 Nov 2017 #92

Same romantic fetish as with the ancient Greeks Coventina Nov 2017 #4

When men were men and women were women. LakeArenal Nov 2017 #5

Or, in parts of the West, "when men were men and the sheep were nervous". Ken Burch Nov 2017 #20

Most real cowboys were African Americans and Mexicans. TexasProgresive Nov 2017 #6

African Americans, Mexicans and Native Americans. Ken Burch Nov 2017 #29

And gay cagefreesoylentgreen Nov 2017 #63

In other words, BLAZING SADDLES was much more historically accurate than anyone realized. Ken Burch Nov 2017 #71

Guns. Pure and simple JDC Nov 2017 #8

It's the guns and the illusion of toughness and rugged individualism. Aristus Nov 2017 #10

No Real Regulation On Anything... Grassy Knoll Nov 2017 #11

Here it is... yuiyoshida Nov 2017 #50

Because schools teach about cowboys/pioneers NCDem777 Nov 2017 #12

Appropriate observation given that Thanksgiving is upon us. Blue_true Nov 2017 #38

I think it's the crotchless chaps maxrandb Nov 2017 #13

LOL! You win! fleur-de-lisa Nov 2017 #84

Because they like familiar imagery over reality, and "familiar imagery" amounts to... JHB Nov 2017 #14

And here is the reality: Hassin Bin Sober Nov 2017 #17

My Eyes... Camel Wayne!!!! Grassy Knoll Nov 2017 #25

... Skittles Nov 2017 #31

Killing me. Lol. Hassin Bin Sober Nov 2017 #32

I stole it from another DUer Skittles Nov 2017 #79

AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!! AAAAAAHHH!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!! hatrack Nov 2017 #26

that is some major moose knuckle right there Skittles Nov 2017 #28

roflamao! yuiyoshida Nov 2017 #51

Miss Wayne cagefreesoylentgreen Nov 2017 #62

Zinke likey to ridey horsey. Sneederbunk Nov 2017 #15

Simple: alludes to the suppression of Native Americans. InAbLuEsTaTe Nov 2017 #16

Romance novel historical revisionism bullshit angrychair Nov 2017 #18

Cowboys Are Losing 29 to 9 Against The Eagles Grassy Knoll Nov 2017 #19

Ha! Love it!! Initech Nov 2017 #21

They don't. blogslut Nov 2017 #22

there is at least one thing... quickesst Nov 2017 #23

The exception that proves the rule . . . hatrack Nov 2017 #27

Sure... quickesst Nov 2017 #34

Unfortunately Snackshack Nov 2017 #24

Do they even know what cowboys did (do) for work? ProudLib72 Nov 2017 #30

It's all about the guns RainCaster Nov 2017 #36

The reality wouldn't please them at all... Buns_of_Fire Nov 2017 #40

Yep...Gunzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz hexola Nov 2017 #44

Yeah.... quickesst Nov 2017 #37

Where would DU be without posts stereotyping people? mahatmakanejeeves Nov 2017 #72

Easy subject to stereotype .... quickesst Nov 2017 #82

I'm lucky they can't see the Nocona boots I'm wearing. Then I would be in trouble. mahatmakanejeeves Nov 2017 #83

Nocona quickesst Nov 2017 #85

These are Nocona Noconas, too, as in "made in Nocona." mahatmakanejeeves Nov 2017 #86

More like.... quickesst Nov 2017 #87

Cowboy, you better change your ways.... safeinOhio Nov 2017 #39

This message was self-deleted by its author Freelancer Nov 2017 #41

Agree MiltonBrown Nov 2017 #61

Kind of funny get the red out Nov 2017 #42

all those bootstraps. pansypoo53219 Nov 2017 #43

Cowboy hats are like hemorroids. goldwax317 Nov 2017 #45

I wore a cowboy hat to work this morning. I'm going to wear it home tonight. mahatmakanejeeves Nov 2017 #75

Love it. B2G Nov 2017 #95

The richest guy Soxfan58 Nov 2017 #46

Excepten the Cartwrites there were three squeaky clean, honorable doc03 Nov 2017 #52

Ah, sounds like now! Initech Nov 2017 #58

No Bill of Rights to get in the way of "justice". no_hypocrisy Nov 2017 #47

gunz. KG Nov 2017 #49

Have you ever flown across the US and seen how much rural land there is? vlyons Nov 2017 #53

Simplemindedness HAB911 Nov 2017 #54

they like them big ol pick up trucks.. samnsara Nov 2017 #55

Slapping leather... Kleveland Nov 2017 #56

Village People had a cowboy and a Native American n/t TexasBushwhacker Nov 2017 #68

feeds on their false narrative of american history and when people "knew their place" beachbum bob Nov 2017 #57

All hat, no cattle JCMach1 Nov 2017 #59

Cowboy stuff is cool. MiltonBrown Nov 2017 #60

to paraphrase a greta Texan, Molly Ivins DonCoquixote Nov 2017 #66

I met a real cowboy Dirty Socialist Nov 2017 #67

My family is Wild West and matriarchal. hunter Nov 2017 #69

Thanks for the post. mahatmakanejeeves Nov 2017 #81

Bingo! GulfCoast66 Nov 2017 #93

My republican relatives listen to country music and they are so not "country" type people. smirkymonkey Nov 2017 #70

It's the epitome of complete individual freedom... brooklynite Nov 2017 #73

Also, outlaws like Jesse James were ex-confederate soldiers. That is DEFINITELY part of what they anneboleyn Nov 2017 #74

In the case of my pa, his pa was an asshole cowboy. The only person in a household of 8 who got Corvo Bianco Nov 2017 #76

I grew up ranching Drahthaardogs Nov 2017 #80

Cowboys do it better. miyazaki Nov 2017 #88

Well god dammit. So to be a proper liberal now... GulfCoast66 Nov 2017 #89

I live in rural NM ranching country and all the retirees womanofthehills Nov 2017 #91

Can rodeo be safer and still be rodeo? mahatmakanejeeves Nov 2017 #96

Dorothy Dandridge performs Cow-Cow Boogie mahatmakanejeeves Nov 2017 #97