Monday, February 8, 2016

Oh, Come On, Stop Pretending Your Favorite Sport Isn't A Fascist Institution

Is there anything more hilarious than the shock and hurt on leftish blogs when they feign to discover, like for the millionth time, that American football players are likely to be right-wing Republicans?   

What's to be surprised?  They make their living in what might be the most heavily subsidized entertainment industry in the world, literally from cradle to the end of their career it's way more than just likely that tax payers are paying most if not the entire bill for the infrastructure that they play in. Their training, their coaching, the seeming scores of referees, etc.   I can guarantee you that hardly anyone in the arts enjoys a small fraction of that level of public funding if any.   I don't know of a musician who ever got the government to pay for their instruction.  Oh, yeah, and if you hear some football jock on the topic, they're more than likely whining about money going to poor people and public services to people other than themselves. 

Then there is the huge salaries making these baby-men  multimillionaires for playing a game, their incomes making it statistically unlikely that they're going to be liberals.  

Then there is the macho entitlement that is the culture of football even more so than most other men's sports.  I'd rather have my niece dating a member of a rock band than a football team.  

The list could go on and on.  Yet on lefty blogs last night there was a pantomime of shock and outrage that one of the players was a JEB! Bush supporter and another one was a Trump supporter....

American football, most sports are a fixture of corporate-imperial culture, there is nothing about it which isn't a glorification of violence and winning at the risk and cost of actual lives, it is the American version of the Roman imperial "games" just by other means.  Of course other than the odd working class guy who remembers his roots football players are Republicanfascists, Republicanfascism has worked very well for them, all round.   

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