The Truth is Always in Season
For fashionable liberals and Democrats, the Gender Dysphorians are so hot right now.
When I was growing up, I always wanted a Mercedes 450SL convertible. One of our local, small-town lawyers had one and when I would see that car out the school bus window, I thought that car was the epitome of class, style - and status. I had this image of Mercedes as the pinnacle of cars, something expensive and for most in my rural Mississippi town, unattainable.
That brand image persisted until I began to travel internationally for work and saw Mercedes vehicles used as taxicabs and highways filled with Mercedes vehicles.
I finally recognized the power of branding. What I had viewed as a high-end luxury experience was just a daily driver in other countries around the world, no better than a Chevrolet in America. The same "exclusive" brand that lawyers and bankers were driving in the US was being driven by suburban moms in Germany. It was just a car.
Branding was (and is) more about image, less about substance.
I also remember in high school when fashions like Nike, Izod and Ralph Lauren were the emblems of the rich kids. Wearing any of them was to wear the uniform of the upper class, something denied to the other kids who wore unbranded or no-name clothes. Spending $30 for a polo shirt made in Pakistan for about $1.50 - but with a $28.50 alligator on it - was a way to signal status.
It was a subtle way for their parents, and by extension, the kids, to say to the general population, "I'm better than you" - even if they really weren't. Many at my high school who manifested such affectations were crude, rude, bad students or just generally assholes created via of a life of privilege they had no hand in creating.
Branding is unquestionably extremely effective on the young. Young people are especially susceptible to trends and fads. Social and peer pressures, plus the desire to belong, draws the young and ignorant as a flame draws a moth.
Speaking of branding and juvenile idiocy, I watched a few minutes of the CMT awards last night because I like country music, but mostly to see how hot Shania Twain still is. Switching back and forth from watching the episodes of Will Trent we had DVR’ed, I was treated to a lecture on gun control and a completely juvenile Kelsea Ballerini (who got her big break at 19) writhing on stage, backed by Ru Paul’s Drag Queens bathed in rainbow laser light.
To paraphrase Jacobim Mugatu from Zoolander - Gender Dysphoria is so hot right now.
That’s what got this line of thinking started. Country music, once branded with beer, cows, pickups, tractors, blue jeans, and cowboy boots has changed. The younger performers, kids who are successful largely due to the giants of country music that built an industry before they were born are now rebranding the industry as some sort of “country lite” with a side of woke.
I spent a little time this morning on Twitter, just swimming in the cesspool of Democrats and Trump hating lapsed Republicans (also Democrats) and it struck me that these people, the Democrat Party members and their allies, never escaped the cliques of high school.
The difference is that instead of clothes, they wear people.
In a long line of fashions, the Democrats have cloaked themselves in black Americans, unions, homosexuals, criminals, and now, they wear Gender Dysphorians (aka transgenders) in the same way as a runway model changes outfits - or more accurately, the same way a terrorist wears a suicide vest.
My high school compatriots never cared much about the functionality of their clothing or that less expensive brands wore just as well any more than the Democrat Party cares about any of the groups they purport to champion. In both situations, the main purpose was to be seen wearing something that transmitted the message of superiority or superior virtue.
In truth, most of those brands popular in the 70's and 80's were bad for the people producing them. All three brands I mentioned have recorded histories of being made with child or slave like labor in Pakistan, India, or China. While the brands helped the rich appear superior, they were disasters in terms of what they were doing to the people in those countries - but the brand managers and the companies here stateside didn't care. Those brands were wildly successful.
Today, none of those three brands have the cachet they had back in the 70’s and 80’s.
Fashions and fads change.
People move on from the old to something new that better fits the image they want to project.
It’s the same with the fashion of people.
Democrats are adept at giving certain “movements” the Madison Avenue treatment, the “transgender” clique is just the latest in a long line of “movements” worn by them.
The truth is they only care about Gender Dysphorians to the extent of how helpful they are in allowing the Democrats to feel superior, no matter that the Dysphorians suffer the same fate as the child slave laborers in Pakistan.
When I attained a modicum of success, I began to wear bespoke suits made by tailors in Hong Kong and on Saville Row in London. The perception is these suits are expensive, but they fit and wear so well and for so long, the ROI is actually pretty good. I select classic designs and fabrics because quality and class never go out of style. The labels on my suits, such as they are, are on the inside, not visible to the outside world. The image of quality is in the fit, the stitching and the fabric, muted to all but those who are paying attention.
The truth is that way.
It costs a little more, but it never goes out of style and people who appreciate it can recognize it when they see it.
That’s why conservatives wear it.
The truth is always in season.
so much truth but the damage being done in real time is immense and terrifying. hard to see a path out except to continue to pound the table that the king has no clothes on, and mock that. To give an inch is to lose.
One of your VERY BEST.