make america grease again

The next time any­one tries to tell you Trump vot­ers want­ed change, 

keep in mind that
“change” nev­er meant
“some­thing new and dif­fer­ent” or
“some­thing we haven’t tried before.”

“Change” meant get­ting ex­act­ly what we are see­ing hap­pen right now and have been for the past eigh­teen months. 

“Change” meant go­ing backward.
“Change” meant sys­tem­at­i­cal­ly strip­ping the rights away from any­one who isn’t a straight white mid­dle class male, and mak­ing damn sure no­body else got any. 

“Make Amer­i­ca Great Again” was code for
“Hey re­mem­ber the ’50s? I’ll take you back to that.” The peo­ple who vot­ed for Trump want­ed that. 

They knew if they vot­ed for him, that’s what they were go­ing to get. 

And they’re get­ting it. Don’t make ex­cus­es for any of them.

If you think about it, it makes sense that a lot of boomer film­mak­ers made movies in the late ’70s – ear­ly ’90s that seemed to say, “Look at how the fifties were such Hap­py Days fun times!”

I mean, we all know what would have re­al­ly hap­pened to Dan­ny and Sandy.
 

—emi­ly duchaine

Flom­mist Emi­ly Duchaine lives in the Pa­cif­ic North­west. She likes to drink mead, learn about sharks, and lis­ten to the Talk­ing Heads. She pre­tends to be a pro­fes­sion­al busi­ness­woman most days. Copy­right © 2018 Emi­ly Duchaine. Grease, Hap­py Days anal­o­gy by Bri­an Huck. Pic­tured, like, Scott Baio, star of the 2016 GOP Convention.

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