The Pain asks: Why are you voting Republican in 2008?

Option #2 reminds me of a piece I read the other day. I can’t quite tell if it’s serious. If it is, it’s a fairly unnecessary defense of the ‘redneck’. If it’s serious, it seems some degree of a subculture in the US has adopted the term as an inside endearment. The problem with this is that as applied to the people described in the article, it’s a misnomer. Not once in the article does the author mention the defining characteristic of a redneck: they’re racist, bigoted fucks. That’s what concerns people, or at the very least that’s what concerns me. That the next US election will be decided by closed-minded ignorant shits who have no business being the inheritors of the US founding fathers’ legacy.

Or perhaps, since Jefferson owned slaves, I’m the one reading it wrong.