Jay Nordlinger posted an Impromptus today on the subject of bumper stickers and singled out a pickup truck that he came across with a seemingly odd collection of bumperstickers, being all over the map on the left-right spectrum. He was having trouble with taxonomy.
This vehicle’s owner fits into a category I’ve called Gun Toting Hippie. It is a particular species you find in pockets in Texas and the mountain states mainly, but can be found in isolated villages around the U.S. such as Bolinas, California, which received a substantial influx of Scots-Irish and was a smuggling town during Prohibition.
This species values radical individualism, rejecting the typical hippie communitarianism. The radical individualism primarily manifests itself in an aversion to taxation, a valorization of gun rights, and corporate culture and bureaucracy are anathematized. The military-industrial complex is sinister and a threat to individual liberty, as are treaties and multinational institutions, therefore isolation is the preferred foreign policy. Conservation is an important goal, which aligns the Gun Toting Hippie with the radical left and environmental movements; except when those movements put agrarian pursuits in the crosshairs, because the Gun Toting Hippie is a Jeffersonian agrarian. (The BLM is a sinister agency.) In general the military should be small and based on a the principles of a democratic militia like Athens had as opposed to the professionalized military of Sparta (let’s leave aside that Athens was also imperial).
The ideology of the Gun Toting Hippie is very American, but a unique admixture not found in other cultures. It is a strong brew of Jeffersonianism and Jacksonianism animated by the passions of Scots-Irish recalcitrance. This ideological diversity is what makes America great.
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