- “Figured they was in my TV-set”
- they refers to communists
- pin-point the enemy
- a basic propaganda technique
- Is communism is being spread through media?
- Get a shock from my feet, hittin right up in the brain. Them reds caused it
- Blaming everything on communists
- Straight up false and lazy. Its an easy thing to do.
- Absurdity
- And discovered they wus red stipes on the American flag!
- Some communist ideas are accepetd around the world (including the US)
- Ideas of equality, communal sharing (publisization)
- Taxes: state health care, public roads etc.
- there is red in the US
- 98% of them gotta be burned away
- referring to books (know this from previous line)
- Eliminating anything that challenges the ruling party
- Only 2% is like me- represents how isolated his ideology is
- How disconnected he is from society
- how absurd it is
- Connecion between the burnig of books in Cambodia and during WW2 with Hitler
- George Lincoln Rockwell
- A neo-nazi
- Kicked out of the military for his political views
- If you don’t picketed the movie Exodus, you aren’t American.
- An extreme patriotic senator made the House of the un-American Activities committee
- To find communists
- Highlights how ridiculous it is to hunt communists. By hunting communists you are being facist.
- When I run out of things to investigate, Couldn’t imagine anything else
- Thats his purpose
Mocking the ridiculousness of their beliefs. Logical flaws.
GLOBAL ISSUE:
- People who don’t believe facts
- People who oppose people views
- People who have absurd views that don’t consider facts
- People’s stubbornness in their views
- Brainwashing
- If people in power have these characteristics, bad things can happen
- Conserving the American way of life= your way of life isn’t the best for everyone
- POLARIZATION OF POLITICAL VIEWS
- The calm, matter of factly, tone
- Not very urgent
- Helps show how its such a common, prominent issue in the US
- Colloquial language (thinkin’), use of an accent helps create a character
- Imagery in the way he builds a character
- The clear image of who is embodying
- Southern, less educated, white, male
- Informal register= lack of education
- “home alone” “quit my job to be alone”
- Isolationism
- Alone, condescening
- Middle-class, maybe?
- Not ideal in society
- Deluded
- Detached
- Satirical
- alienated, outcast, isolated
- But makes some good, impactful points at the end