Grinches, Scrooges And Old Men Before Their Time

Created
Sun, 17/12/2023 - 08:00
Updated
Sun, 17/12/2023 - 08:00
Stephen Miller is only 38 years old. He sounds like somebody’s crotchety old grandfather there, living in some pre-1960s world. I suppose he’s speaking to the aging Fox boomer audience but I hate to tell him, purple and pink hair and piercings and tattoos have been around for decades now. We’ve been hearing an awful lot about appropriate dress and proper decorum from Republicans lately. But seriously, don’t you think they should take a look in the mirror? How about whatever this is? Let’s just say that the left doesn’t have a monopoly on wild hairdos and garish fashion. And those Fox News boomers need to take an extra dose of their Prevagen. This is from 1972: Miller’s idea seems to be that liberals and progressives are out of step with mainstream America but that requires a very creative definition of mainstream. Here’s how the dictionary defines it: having, reflecting, or being compatible with the prevailing attitudes and values of a society or group To put this into political terms, all you have to do is look at the popular vote counts since 2016 to see where the mainstream of America really is. Not that this is anything new. Hippie bashing has always been one of their standard go-to insults and since they have abandoned all sense of sense of shame and no longer reside on planet earth they can say anything and their people will nod their heads in agreement. This is what they see as upstanding behavior from…