The fair was tough on me physically but we had our pork chop sandwiches, and the kids did their 25 bucks of carnival rides, we had our cotton candy, but the rodeo was very very very strange. I had gone to rodeos as a kid. After my dad died, my mother dated this guy who took us on the rodeo circuit. I really became quite a fan.
Tonight this rodeo company out of Missouri spent the first half hour with this strange political right wing propaganda. Apparently, the government has put pressure on the Circus and rodeo as to animal abuse. Well, this was like the twilight zone of patriotism and anti Washington rhetoric. I was appalled, but looked around, and this was not the same audience at a rodeo when I was a kid. It was a bunch of tatooed drug addicts who probably did not have jobs and their skimpy outfits and biker jackets and cowboy hats. Pretend cowboys. I used to ride as a kid, and the crowds were families with working parents and just a joy for the sport. I left early and the grandkids were angry with papa. I just was worn out physically, but equally mentally with the crap this rodeo announcer was saying about that it was not a journalist or lawyer who gave us our bill of rights but fighting men and women in Iraq.......honest to God I thought I was going to get violently ill. Our forefathers sacrificed for that bill of rights and nobody in Iraq was a threat to invade America or take our bill of rights away. I just wanted the announcer to shut the F up when I realized that some of this was scripted, and somebody was sponsoring this rodeo company. People are getting brainwashed where ever we go now. A perfectly beautiful evening with the Grandchildren was totally ruined by some Koch brothers half hour propaganda piece to an audience which seemed like they were on a weekend pass from the local drug rehab center. I can guarantee you there were no Hillary voters who were watching this rodeo. The problem is as a kid, working families came to a rodeo, but the cultural shift in this nation is beyond scary. We are really in deep trouble beyond President Trump's continuing fiascos. This was not meant to be political, but a perfectly beautiful evening with my grandkids was ruined by a koch brother type propaganda show under the illusion that it really was about the rodeo.