I would have said god is a fascist. There's a real "do what I've decided is best for you, or there will be hell to pay" (pun intended) vibe throughout his interactions with humanity.
But he does always seem to need money, so maybe you have a point.
That's true, but it's easier said than done. As someone who already experienced job loss once this year, I'm not looking to go through with it again. I have to look out for myself and my family first, unfortunately.
that's not remotely true. The union movement is quite robust and actively serves a real need. The only thing that could actually kill the union movement would be a fully communist society and unions subsequently becoming redundant
Yeahhh. That writing, too, lmao. As a Carolinian, the little faded "comrade" was a good one. Down to earth and huge hearted as he was said to be, I don't think the christian republican co-owner of Dale Earnhardt Inc. is your friendski, pal
Dale Sr. never really spoke about politics one way or the other, but it's worth noting that his son is an open progressive in an industry that appeals almost entirely to the Conservative crowd. Is there any reason in particular you think Dale Earnhardt was a typical republican?
Edit: after a little more research it seems that Dale was probably a traditional Southern conservative but not what we would call today as a MAGA conservative. An excerpt from this article reads:
Dale’s daughter Kelley recalled an incident that occurred in her childhood, when her father placed a bumper sticker reading “American By Birth / Southern By The Grace Of God” on the rear of his truck. The family’s black housekeeper mentioned that the sticker, which featured the Confederate flag, made her uncomfortable. Dale immediately took a pen knife and slashed the flag off his truck, leaving the expression of Southern pride while divorcing it from the region’s sour history.
It's hard to say, while he did grow up stuck in a western town, outside of racing there's not much else known about his life outside of what's been show by him and his son.
You can't make assumptions based on the stereotypes.
I know, that's why I'm asking, for all I know he was very liberal. I'm not a NASCAR guy by any stretch and don't know anything about these guys, but I know what the fans tend to be like.
Yeah, seconded. He’s in a business surrounded by right wingers and right wing fans. It would be highly unlikely that he didn’t lean hard right, but sometimes these guys surprise you. Like Garth Brooks being a super-popular country singer back in the day but being very liberal - of course that political stance wasn’t talked about at all during the height of his fame.
News to me. I don't know anything about Brooks beyond that he sounds like every other country music guy, so I definitely just painted him with the same brush as what I know about the rest.
Come in on saturday? Come in on saturday? I think the fuck not, my clipboard-carrying friend. People didn't die at Blair Mountain, Virginian coal miners and their families didn't walk through chlorine gas and machine gun fire, so that your ironed shirt ass could ask me to come in on a saturday. In fact, you know what, pass me that Springfield rifle, I need to talk to the boss.
I also believe that he wanted to use the extra profits that Ford made to invest into better processes to make the cars cheaper and to increase the wages and conditions of the workers.
Then the share holders sued him saying that he had an obligation to give them their share of the profits and won....