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It was also a meta or self-referential joke about what was going on with The Simpsons itself, at the time.
Bush 1, Herbert, had actually specifically attacked the Simpsons in a speech he gave about American moral values.
All the people that wanted to ban Magic cards, DnD, Pokemon, Harry Potter?
They also wanted to ban the Simpsons, and of course later, South Park.
1990?
The Simpsons was only on season 2, this is the 9th episode of the 2nd season.
This is back when The Simpsons were a radical departure from the standard family show, was a vicious critique of much of the bullshit fake nonsense image that America pretended it was, before the show uh, Flanderized itself into basically meaningless pablum.
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These hardcore moralists, dominionists, theofascists... they never went away!
They just held their tongue a bit more, untill Trump told them it was ok to stop doing so.
People who didn't grow up in and then escape a strongly right wing upbringing just don't get it, and its why so many people are surprised that such a rapid shift to facism can and is occuring.
These people have nothing other than their malformed superiority complexes and out of date traditions.
Of course they would and will always jump at any chance to impose their idiot will by force and double think.
Its all they know.
Fellow escapee here - no one's believed me yet how unhinged they are. Hugs!
Thanks, I could use some hugs right now.
Yeah, at this rate, its looking like I'm going to need to escape the entire fucking country... spent most of my life trying to warn people about this, got degrees in econ and polisci, can make the arguments and cite the data correctly...
... and almost no one listened untill it was far beyond too late, most people called me a hysterical lunatic while I was recognizing and describing the signs of a mass political movement largely acting and thinking like an extremist religious cult.
I hate it here, the American 'experiment' has failed.