When Deplorable Was Not Cool

Up in a holler on the Ely creek in rural southern West Virginia is where I was raised and spent my first 20 years. I have no regrets for where I was raised. I am not ashamed of it. There is nothing wrong with growing up miles & miles from the nearest stop light. I am honestly proud of where I came from. Proud that I grew up with the hard working, average, ordinary God fearing, patriotic people in the hills of West Virginia. We were the original deplorables before being deplorable was popular. I am proud to be identified as one of them. I wouldn't  change it. Really.
It's been more than forty years since I've lived there. I've been alot of places and seen a lot of things. But I have never gotten so smart, so elite and so deluded to think that going against my upbringing could ever make me look like a better person. I know and have seen a few small minded people who like to put on Aires. It's so transparently obvious they are ashamed of where they came from. Some smooth talking celebrity or perhaps a politician or a hollywood actor or worse some sports figure convinced them somehow they were inferior. Made them ashamed. And now these individuals seem to feel that if they can only act like and sound like and perhaps think like the popular crowd then they can escape the self inflicted, self imagined stigma associated with their upbringing.
And so they stagger through their lives grasping at every trendy political ideology, every liberal, leftist, socialistic thought that comes along. Hoping that everyone will notice how very far they have risen from their low and humble beginnings.
Somehow I'm reminded of some unending episode of Walking Dead. You can see it cant you? They wander off sightlessly  across the fields and streets dragging themselves along except in stead of looking for flesh to eat they search for the latest left wing social trend. They hear about some athlete who thinks he can get more attention by being unpatriotic and disrespecting America and off they go en masse to show him how popular he is. And how modern & correct they are.
Then suddenly it becomes trendy to tear down historical statues because someone is offended by them and these sad puppet walkers head off in that direction too. Or the motion picture actors decide that to disrespect the President is the IN thing to do. And wouldn't you know it...off they go like Lemmings to show their disrespect as well.  Then some left wing celebrity cries on tv begging to abolish the 2nd amendment and rid the country of guns! And off they go, screaming like their hair is on fire. I feel abit sad for them. I really do. It's sad when people give up their right to think for themselves.
Ya know go ahead and call me what you like. I don't mind being called deplorable. As long as you allow me the right to, at least, form my own opinions by thinking freely on my own.  And finally please love me that's all I ask of you.