Sure there are good people, WW. You run into good and intelligent and aware people in surprising places, but they've - we've - been disenfranchised. You won't hear their voices in the media or in politics. But, yeah, I'm pretty cynical about American white people on the whole, what's left of them.
I don't know nuthin' about rodeo, except I went to two, one in northern AZ and one in TX, and yes, there were a lot of long lean people with fancy belt buckles there. I also met a retired rodeo rider way out in the wilderness a couple of years ago. He was all busted up with many injuries, but still cool and real western. That is a terribly rough sport.
As for the military, I said the mid-level officer class. Enlisted men are either young naive kids or powerless to make any changes. Top level are political appointees, politicians. Mid level is my slim to none hope, especially if the occupational government starts one war too many, like with some country that has the capability to actually fight back, and maybe missiles start sinking the sixth fleet, there's going to be serious unrest then. Dr Alan Sabrosky, former director of studies at the US Army War College, came right out and said that "the military knows that Israel did 911", which they did, with the full collaboration of Washington.
As for Arnold Schwartzennegger, I heard a story about him when he was a young body builder. Some guys were handing out National Socialist pamphlets in CA, and he came by, and he ran over to them to shake their hands and pat them on the back. His father was a National Socialist and a police chief in NS Germany (Austria).
