Auto Show

We went to The Dallas Auto Show today. Saw some really lovely cars. Various Hyundai, VW, Ford, Chevrolet, Audi, Mercedes, Fiat, etc., etc., vehicles. Cars are so much better than they were even 15 years ago when I last sold cars.

We were looking at the Fiat 500 Cabriolet -- CUTE, CUTE, CUTE!!! Then some Texas guy, Pretty big Texas guy looked and said, "What if you get hit by a big truck?". We responded -- "If a big truck hits you -- you're most likely dead, even in your Escalade". He mumbled, and left.

Afterward we were talking, and wondering why so many of these BIG Texas guys seem so afraid of damn near everything. They're afraid of little cars and big trucks. They are frightened of supposedly RAMPANT crime. Illegal immigrants scare the living crap out of them. They are worried about wild eyed radical feminists, abortion (even though they can't get one), and terribly worried that they will BE FORCED, FORCED I TELL YOU, to eat HEALTHY FOOD by a black woman in The White House.

So much seems to scare these (just ask them) independent, self reliant, true-blue-red-blooded-American MEN. Why? Why are they so scared? What caused this irrational fear?

Do you think they know everything is sliding into total crap? Perhaps they realize the day of the white man is coming to an end - slowly but surely. Perhaps some part of them understands that, no matter how hard they yell, how much they deny, global climate change (global WARMING) is just grinding on in its quest to destroy the human species. Do you think they are frightened by the reality of educated, polished, upwardly mobile brown and black people?

What is it? Why are these self appointed "individualists" frightened by damn near everything?

I'd really like to know.

Oh yeah -- while looking at the Chevrolet Volt another BIG Texas guy said it's a piece of junk, said these batteries are no damn good, questioned American Technology, etc., etc. What was that about? I'll bet he sees himself as a "Patriot" -- but only buys foreign cars, pines for "the good old days", and is a mass of contradictions -- like so many of these "Patriots".

BAH-HUMBUG!!