Some Thoughts On The American Experience

by

R. E. Prindle

 

A couple articles in the weekend edition (8/10-11/19) of the Wall Street Journal merit comment.  One is by our old flame, Peg Noonan.  In reaction to the latest Liberal atrocities in El Paso and Dayton Peg is taking a Sentimental Journey via her favorite songs to when America was America and everything was alright.  Unfortunately she chose that inane song Moon River to float down stream on her memories.  Perhaps Peg should listen to the song more closely and then relate it to its nutty but also enjoyable movie Breakfast At Tiffany’s.

Well, Peg also sent me off on my own sentimental journey but not as a song but to the mythical American locale called Dog Patch.  Dog Patch was created by the child abuser Al Capp (ne Kaplan) in the daily and Sunday comic strip of those far off ‘sentimental’ days.  Al was more or less an early Jeffrey Epstein.  He was Jewish too; this counts whether you recognize it or not.

The comic strip was called Li’l Abner.  It featured a bozo hillbilly and his ditso blonde girl friend, Daisy Mae.  Hot stuff.  As innocent as the strip appeared it was actually an insidious demeaning of the ‘native’ stock.  Al’s folks were immigrants of course, thought few wish to recognize the negative aspects of immigration.

Capp began his strip in 1934, I became aware of and familiar with it from about 1950-54 when I was twelve to sixteen.  Apparently I was becoming more alert because I also stopped reading it and Mad Magazine, another Jewish creation, in 1954 also for the same reason.  Not because I knew either was Jewish because I wasn’t that aware, but because they ridiculed everything that I valued.

Capp began the strip in 1934 simultaneously with Erskine Caldwell’s two novellas, Tobacco Road and God’s Little Acre.  Caldwell was openly vicious and hateful in demeaning Southern Whites but certain Northern Whites revered the volumes.  His two books codified Hillary Clinton’s concept of the Deplorables and the distinction between good and bad Whites that has been institutionalized today.  Capp was more insidious and less open than Caldwell and actually adorable if you weren’t reading carefully.

Daisy Mae, Abner’s girl friend, established the fashion for girls’ jeans with the legs cut off at the crotch.  His wicked woman character, Sadie Hawkins, even had a day set aside for her during my high school days.  By high school however, I had come to a realization of what Capp was doing and I was actually hostile to the concept of Sadie Hawkins days, which I found demeaning.  And, Capp was intentionally demeaning.

He was revered as a comic genius until it was discovered that he had a fixation on little girls, the knowledge of which demeaned him as much as he was demeaning Whites with his Dog Patch.

When Peg was mooning over Moon River my thoughts turned to Al Capp and Erskine Caldwell.  For a song my thoughts went to that great American classic, Frankie and Johnny—rum tum tum,