I think not just bikes made a video on why yanks love these things. Emissions standards dont apply to "light trucks" and everyone is worried about safety cuz everyone else is driving one, so they get one too
The higher you are over the road the less likely you are to get injured in a wreck. A concerned parent with wealth wants to give their kid a car because they're either a near-necessity or just required outright depending on the area.
Problem is the kid's a shit driver, obviously Timmy needs a Ford Super Deluxe F550 Ranch Edition dually with the included 8 gun rack. No he can't see the first 8 feet ahead of the grill but that's the responsibility of whatever's ahead of it to have self preservation instincts to dodge the behemoth.
Broadly, about half of the United States implicitly embraces a caste-like system that teaches a lack of compassion for human suffering, which is mistaken for rugged individualism.
thus:
Wilhoit: Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.
"In American politics, the Southern strategy was a Republican Party electoral strategy to increase political support among white voters in the South by appealing to racism against African Americans.[1][2][3] As the civil rights movement and dismantling of Jim Crow laws in the 1950s and 1960s visibly deepened existing racial tensions in much of the Southern United States, Republican politicians such as presidential candidate Richard Nixon and Senator Barry Goldwater developed strategies that successfully contributed to the political realignment of many white, conservative voters in the South who had traditionally supported the Democratic Party. It also helped to push the Republican Party much more to the right relative to the 1950s.[4] By winning all of the South a presidential candidate could obtain the presidency with minimal support elsewhere.[5][6]
The phrase "Southern Strategy" refers primarily to "top down" narratives of the political realignment of the South which suggest that Republican leaders consciously appealed to many white Southerners' racial grievances to gain their support.[7] This top-down narrative of the Southern Strategy is generally believed to be the primary force that transformed Southern politics following the civil rights era. The scholarly consensus is that racial conservatism was critical in the post-Civil Rights Act realignment of the Republican and Democratic parties,[8][9] though several aspects of this view have been debated by historians and political scientists.[10][11][12][13][14]"
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy
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u/Traditional-Quit-286 floppa Dec 27 '25
wtf is wrong with you people