Note: this more appropriately belongs in the "Books" forum here on conservativecave, and I'll move it there in a couple of days--but for now, since it's a topic sure to pique the interest of lurking primitives, I'll keep it here. Carry on. franksolich
This afternoon I attended a big book sale put on by a local small-town library.
I dunno what the rule is in other places, but here in Nebraska, libraries are supposed to cull through, and discard 3% of their entire collection (minus the local and regional stuff), so as to get rid of the dead wood and make room for new books.
The books were going for twenty-five cents apiece; there were thousands of them.
I could not help but notice there were an awful lot of books about the Kennedys.
Stacks of books about the Kennedys; all the individuals, all the generations.
Then it struck me.
Anyone growing up during the 1960s and 1970s was surfeited with reading matter about the Kennedys; and given their popularity among the great unwashed brainwashed, the Kennedys were the "royal family" of America.
I recall as a little lad, as a teenager, as a young adult, it seemed the Kennedys would never go away.
That they were constantly re-elected with little or no problem, despite their personal and political corruption, said much about the cult-of-the-personality voters in blue states.
Nebraska of course is a red state with no particular fondness for Jack the Father, Bobby the Christ, and Vast Teddy the Holy Ghost, but it's in the nature of Nebraskans to be even-handed, and so all libraries, in both the cities and small places, have plenty of reading matter for minority Dems, liberals, and primitives.
In fact, more books about the Kennedys than any other American political family.
I inquired why so many Kennedy books, and was told these were no longer of any special interest, as shown by the circulation figures; some of these books had not been checked out since 1978 or 1981 or something. And even the recent ones, from the 1990s and the beginning of this century, had been checked out only once or twice.
Whoa. And I thought the Kennedys would never lose elections, would never go away.