RE: Hillbilly Elegy
December 1, 2020 at 7:38 pm
(This post was last modified: December 1, 2020 at 7:40 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Do you have a purrty mouth? 
I think that Vance is a sort of well intentioned quisling in this respect. Plenty of people internalize the propaganda meant to manipulate them..but he's a good disseminator- and the rightwing grievance is a mirror image of what probably is a true claim down at it's very core. He's exactly the sort of cheerleader you want for these ideas and..if his life experiences genuinely lead him to hold the positions he uses these narratives to advance (which we have every reason to suspect is true) - then all the better for both parties - to the detriment of the hillbilly..yet again.
I think that Vance is a sort of well intentioned quisling in this respect. Plenty of people internalize the propaganda meant to manipulate them..but he's a good disseminator- and the rightwing grievance is a mirror image of what probably is a true claim down at it's very core. He's exactly the sort of cheerleader you want for these ideas and..if his life experiences genuinely lead him to hold the positions he uses these narratives to advance (which we have every reason to suspect is true) - then all the better for both parties - to the detriment of the hillbilly..yet again.
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