Young “cons” indeed

SEK points at and mocks a couple of young tools doing “conservative rapping” and includes their video, which is as excruciating as you imagined when you read “conservative rapping”. But that’s not important right now, what I found interesting was the shirts these two douches were wearing, as seen in the screenshot above. Because I’m sure they think they’re wearing the symbols of two iconic conservative superheroes, when in fact both Superman and Captain America can best be described as FDR Democrats. Superman spent his first appearances fighting wifebeaters (Action Comics #1), crooked businessmen and war profiteers (#1 and #2), not to mention mine owners who put profit before safety (#3). Not to mention that he’s either an illegal immigrant or America’s most famous anchor baby, depending on whether he was born on Krypton or only when his little rocket hit Kansas and spent most of the sixties, seventies and eighties as duly deputised police officers of the United Nations, together with his cousin Supergirl!

Captain America on the other hand is the textbook example of the premature anti-fascist, knocking out Hitler on his first appearance, in March 1941, has been consistently portrayed as a proper liberal, other than in Mark Millar’s revisionist imaginations, in the seventies saw that the head of the fascist Secret Empire was none other than Nixon a high public official, got desillusioned with America and went all Easy Rider, while in the eighties had to deal with a Reagan inspired challenger to his role who ultimately couldn’t cope with it.

All in all, two quite odd choices to wear for two such conservative stalwards.