Anti-Capitalism Angry Kermit is not a fan of the Mustang
As you can see, Angry Kermit is not a fan of the Mustang.
There’s something sad about such hopeless nostalgia but it seems to rampant in this country. T-shirts being sold at Target show old comic book and cereal characters, while Eddie Bauer is introducing World War II era styled jackets. At the deep psychological level here may be a longing for an America that once was.
Subsidizing a long failing auto industry certainly has not helped, but Asian manufacturers have been beating out American competitors for a long, long time. Just as the sun did eventually set on the British empire, so too is American omnipotence gone. It would be best to try to arrive at a new cultural dynamic instead of grappling for an old one.