We, the people
Remember Dirty Harry? Clint Eastwood as the anti-hero cop that plays by his own rules of right and wrong. An American tradition. Remember Rambo? Sylvester Stallone plays the returning war anti-hero veteran that has been screwed by the government and then must deal with a local community that has lost all sense of real American values and sense of fair play. Remember Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper in Easy Rider? Hopper’s one-finger salute at the end of the movie is an American standard and classic. America has always had a fondness for the underdog down-and-out anti-hero. That is America. That underdog down-and-out anti-hero is ‘we the people’.
In order to form a more perfect Union, we the people told King George III to “fuck off!” It is crude, it is vulgar, it is typically American. America and America’s people have always done everything the American way. With the old ‘one finger’ held proudly and high, we Americans go about our business our way.
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